Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs: "Some day, we will undoubtedly discover that, in the term 'surge' - as in US President George W Bush's 'surge' plan (or 'new way forward') announced to his nation in January - was the urge to avoid the language (and experience) of the Vietnam War era. As there were to be no 'body bags' (or cameras to film them as the dead came home), as there were to be no 'body counts' ('We have made a conscious effort not to be a body-count team' was the way Bush put it), as there were to be no 'quagmires', nor the need to search for that 'light at the end of the tunnel', so, surely, there were to be no 'escalations'. "
Israeli school segregated Ethiopian students » Ethiopian Review : "The placement of four Ethiopian girls in a separate class from their peers at a Petah Tikva grade school has sparked accusations of segregation on Tuesday morning following a report in Yediot Aharonot. According to ‘Hamerhav’ principal, Rabbi Yeshiyahu Granvich, complete integration of the girls was impossible. The reason being, said municipal workers, was that the students were not observant enough, nor did their families belong to the national-religious movement that the school was founded upon. Among the differences in the daily school life of the girls, a single teacher was responsible to teach them all of their subjects. Worse yet, the four were allotted separate recess hours and were driven to and from school separately. Such action has been labeled by observers as “apartheid.”"
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