The Refugee Crisis and the Mediterranean Sea – The Largest Graveyard in Modern History By Peter Koenig

8 July 2018 — Global Research

In June 2018 alone, more than 500 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Their boats were refused access to land in either Malta, or Italy. They were force-driven back by gun-boats to the North African shores they came from, mostly Libya, but many boats capsized and countless refugees didn’t make it.

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Israel is bulldozing Khan Al Ahmar – and with it the two-state solution By Jonathan Cook

8 July 2018 — Jonathan Cook

The National – 8 July 2018

Israel finally built an access road to the West Bank village of Khan Al Ahmar last week, after half a century of delays. But the only vehicles allowed along it are the bulldozers scheduled to sweep away its 200 inhabitants’ homes.

If one community has come to symbolise the demise of the two-state solution, it is Khan Al Ahmar.

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