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A Language of Conflict, and Peace - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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TOK language history politics israel palestine

shared by markfrankel18 on 19 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • This is part of what I have come to call “conflict code”: words whose plain English meanings are politicized, distorted or undermined in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which is much more a clash of narratives than a tussle over territory. In November, the International Press Institute issued “Use With Care,” a guide to more than 75 “alternative words and phrases” for “loaded language” on this beat.“There are words that can cause some audiences to simply shut down and stop listening,” the preface reads. “We all understand that words can only mediate reality, not define it. But words are also powerful, and they play a major role in shaping our consciousness and perceptions.”
Lawrence Hrubes

BBC News - She Who Tells a Story: Female lens on Iran and the Arab world - 0 views

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TOK gender women arts photography MiddleEast Iran stereotypes

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 19 Sep 13 - No Cached
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    "In the Middle East, a number of pioneering female photographers have risen to prominence, using art to defy stereotypes and explore questions of identity in the changing region."
markfrankel18

How Much for a Kidney? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by markfrankel18 on 22 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • The demand for transplantable organs far exceeds the supply. That has led to an increase in the illegal trafficking of kidneys, which represent the majority of living-donor transplants because a person can live with only one. Should people in need of a kidney transplant be allowed to pay someone to donate one of theirs, or would that let the rich exploit the poor?
markfrankel18

A Gaza Artist Creates 100 Square Feet of Beauty, and She's Not Budging - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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shared by markfrankel18 on 01 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Alienated by Gaza’s restrictive religiosity and constant conflict with Israel, Ms. Badwan, 27, has hardly left the room for more than a year. Within its walls she has created her own world, and a striking set of self-portraits that are at once classical and cutting-edge.
Lawrence Hrubes

Textbooks for Peace in Israel and the West Bank - The New Yorker - 0 views

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shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 21 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • One of the few Palestinians who has tried to teach the Holocaust, Muhammad S. Dajani Daoudi, included it in a course at Al Quds University, in Jerusalem, and took twenty-seven Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz last year. He was vilified and hounded into resigning.
  • All eight students firmly denied that Jewish temples had ever stood in Jerusalem, a repudiation that has gained widespread currency among Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim. Textbooks don’t have to go that far; merely ignoring Jewish history in Jerusalem creates a vacuum, into which flow fabrications.
  • By contrast, Israeli textbooks acknowledge Islam’s connection to Jerusalem, according to Daniel Bar-Tal, of Tel Aviv University, the leading Israeli researcher for the Council of Religious Institutions study. Their central silence concerns the Palestinians’ angry pain over the founding of the Jewish state, which they mourn as “Al Nakba” (“the catastrophe”), in which they see alien outsiders as having stolen their land, killing and expelling innocent Arabs.
Lawrence Hrubes

Banksy Finds a Canvas and a New Fanbase in Gaza's Ruins - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 01 May 15 - No Cached
  • GAZA — Very little of Abu Shadi Shenbari’s family home remains in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. Only a concrete bathroom wall was left standing when Israeli forces flattened the neighborhood near the border with Israel during the war with Hamas last summer.Though Mr. Shenbari had all but abandoned that last panel of erect concrete, in recent days he began building a wood and wire-mesh fort with a flimsy nylon roof to protect the bombed-out bathroom wall, which is now home to a 10-foot-tall depiction of a kitten.The spray-painted mural was created by the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy, who slipped in and out of Gaza in February, leaving his mark on three slabs of rubble left from Israel’s 50-day fight with Hamas, the Islamic group that controls Gaza.
Lawrence Hrubes

The Pentagon's 'Terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own - The New Yo... - 1 views

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shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 27 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • Just as the Industrial Revolution spurred the creation of powerful and destructive machines like airplanes and tanks that diminished the role of individual soldiers, artificial intelligence technology is enabling the Pentagon to reorder the places of man and machine on the battlefield the same way it is transforming ordinary life with computers that can see, hear and speak and cars that can drive themselves.
  • The debate within the military is no longer about whether to build autonomous weapons but how much independence to give them. Gen. Paul J. Selva of the Air Force, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said recently that the United States was about a decade away from having the technology to build a fully independent robot that could decide on its own whom and when to kill, though it had no intention of building one.
  • Armed with a variation of human and facial recognition software used by American intelligence agencies, the drone adroitly tracked moving cars and picked out enemies hiding along walls. It even correctly figured out that no threat was posed by a photographer who was crouching, camera raised to eye level and pointed at the drone, a situation that has confused human soldiers with fatal results.
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  • Today’s software has its limits, though. Computers spot patterns far faster than any human can. But the ability to handle uncertainty and unpredictability remain uniquely human virtues, for now.
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