Новости за 19.06.2016

Jeff Kingston, Japan Times
Civil war engulfed Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009, with a death toll estimated by the U.N. at up to 100,000. The war was fought between the Liberation Tigers.

Itamar Rabinovich, Mosaic
To Edward Said, the answer was a thunderous no. Bernard Lewis's life and career, including his steadfast support of Israel, definitively demonstrate otherwise.

Jared Malsin, Time
In the Kurdish towns of southeastern Turkey, the war is coming home. Since the collapse of the peace process between the Turkish government and Kurdish rebels last year, a devastating conflict has unfolded in the urban centers of the region, pitting young militants against Turkish military and police.

Jane McMullen, BBC Magazine

Decades after women in the Philippines were raped by Japanese soldiers during World War Two, the remaining survivors are still fighting for justice.

Evan Solomon, Maclean's
Is the authenticity gap the political equivalent of the three-point shot? Maybe. Every time Trudeau fades back and launches another of his high-risk moon shots—legalizing pot, pricing carbon, buying navy ships, changing the way elections are won—you think he's going to fail.

Thanassis Cambanis, Boston Globe
The utopian group of professors, architects, artists, and white-collar professionals was supposed to be too naïve and elitist to make any headway against the entrenched warlords and clan bosses who have controlled Lebanese politics for as long as most voters here have been alive. Instead, the upstart campaign called Beirut Madinati — “Beirut Is My City” — nearly scored an upset in May's city council elections.

Edwin Black, Times of Israel
Bent on destroying Israel, and gripped by vicious anti-Semitism, Baghdad ‘pauperized' its Jews and forced them to leave for the nascent Jewish state in 1951-2. It believed Israel would collapse under the strain. But the immigrants ultimately helped Israel thrive, and it was Iraq that suffered.

Corbin Reiff, Washington Post
In slamming troops who served in Iraq, he violates the Army's codes of honor and integrity.

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
A meeting intended to unite denominations and modernize dogma devolves into infighting.

Anatole Kaletsky, Project Syndicate
The febrile behavior of financial markets ahead of the UK's "Brexit" referendum on June 23 shows that the outcome will influence economic and political conditions around the world far more profoundly than Britain's share of global GDP might suggest. In fact, for three reasons, a Brexit vote could catalyze another global crisis.

Fintan O'Toole, The Guardian
It is a question the English used to ask about their subject peoples: are they ready for self-government? But it is now one that has to be asked about the English themselves. It's not facetious: England seems to be stumbling towards a national independence it has scarcely even discussed, let alone prepared for. It is on the brink of one of history's strangest nationalist revolutions.

David Keys, The Independent
Most of the EU referendum debate has focused on the economy and immigration. But there is an elephant in the room – unfortunately a very big and ugly one – that hasn't featured in detail at all. Will our referendum on June 23rd be seen by future historians as the event which triggered the end of the relatively peaceful and stable post-war period on our continent?

Hisham Melhem, Al Arabiya
Former President Bill Clinton was shamed by the massacre at Srebrenica to move militarily against the Serbs, but President Obama remained immune to the shame of the many Srebrenicas that the Assad regime has committed in Syria. One would hope that years from now when President Obama recalls the victims he could not save at Sandy Hook, Aurora, and Orlando, killed at the hands of tormented individual souls, that only the likes of Dostoyevsky may be able to lay bare to us... Читать дальше...

Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
There's long been a theory that peacetime is bad for maintaining the global order — turns out a war now and then does a nation good.

Max Boot, Wall Street Journal
To stop future terrorist attacks, we need solutions from all sides: better security and surveillance at home, a vigorous fight abroad and the support of Muslim moderates everywhere.