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HARVARD UNIVERSITY to host conference calling for the destruction of the Jewish State
Posted: February 20, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islam and the Jews | 18 Comments »
Harvard University is going to be hosting a conference entitled “One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the One State Solution,” scheduled to take place March 3-4.
INN According to the “Vision and Goals” of the conference, as outlined by its website:
“To date, the only Israel/Palestine solution that has received a fair rehearsal in mainstream forums has been the two-state solution. Our conference will help to expand the range of academic debate on this issue. Thus, our main goal is to educate ourselves and others about the possible contours of a one-state solution and the challenges that stand in the way of its realization.”
The conference was organized by a number of student groups including, Students for Justice in Palestine, the Palestine Caucus, the Arab Caucus, the Progressive Caucus, and the Association for Justice in the Middle East, all of which perpetrate an ideology based on the belief that Israel is an “apartheid state,” responsible for the “ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.”
Speakers include, Ali Abunimah, the Executive Director of the Electronic Intifada; Dalit Baum, of the BDS organization Coalition of Women for Peace; Ilan Pappe, radical left Israeli academic and fervent supporter of the BDS movement; Marc Ellis, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, who compares Zionism to colonialism and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi treatment of Jews; as well as a number of other academics and scholars who advocate similar beliefs.
“Most of the speakers are heavily involved in anti-Israel advocacy. The conference program features an activist workshop, in contrast to an academic or research framework in which different perspectives are presented… Such events represent the antithesis of constructive academic dialogue and peaceful coexistence,” the NGO Monitor claimed.
“Those who promote a one-state ‘solution’ advocate creating an entity which would, through its merger with the Palestinian Arab population of the West Bank and Gaza and an influx of Palestinians from neighboring states, lose its Jewish majority and its Jewish character. In effect, Jewish self-determination would be nullified,” the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) reported. The forum is clearly focused, therefore, on “dismantling the Jewish State of Israel.”
“According to the working definition of anti-Semitism developed by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), and recognized by the United States Department of State, the One State Conference, in implicitly ‘denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination,’ is an exercise in anti-Semitism,” CAMERA explained.
Anti-Semitism and Sham Scholarship
CAMERA Another element in the State Department-recognized working definition of anti-Semitism is “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” That is also likely to occur at the conference. Scheduled speaker Ali Abunimah has previously compared Israel to Nazis, and similar statements have been made by others. Conference organizer Ahmed Moor also accuses Jews of racism asserting, “Many Israelis and Jewish people are weaned on the idea of Jewish exceptionalism.” Marc Ellis likens Jews to Nazis and to the Egyptians of the Passover tale.
This sort of anti-Israel, anti-Semitic invective, masquerading as education, has become commonplace at these conferences. Far from being scholarly, however, many of the scheduled speakers are of dubious academic integrity and frequently disseminate misinformation and false narratives about Israel and Jews. For example:
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Ali Abunimah has intentionally understated Hamas violence and disseminated false quotations to make Israeli leaders appear cruel.
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Diana Buttu has repeatedly and falsely understated the extent of Palestinian terrorist violence and mischaracterized international law. She has even gone so far as to claim that Hamas rockets have no explosive head. This is an obvious falsehood.
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Marc Ellis wrote a column describing how a Palestinian friend of his was murdered because Jewish settlers coveted her family’s land, falsely implying she was killed by Jews when, in fact, her murderer was an Arab. Ellis is currently defending himself against charges by Baylor University that could lead to his dismissal.
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Leila Farsakh falsely asserted in a French newspaper that the PLO had agreed to share land with Israel in 1974. The truth is that in 1974, the PLO reaffirmed its rejection of a land-for-peace deal in what is known as the “Phased Plan” for the destruction of Israel.
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Ilan Pappé repeatedly published a fabricated quotation to make David Ben-Gurion appear to endorse ethnic cleansing. Pappé has so little regard for historical facts, he freely admits “I am not as interested in what happened as in how people see what’s happened.”
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Nadim Rouhana was denied tenure at Boston College due to the insufficient quality of his scholarship.
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Stephen Walt is best known for his book, written with John Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. The book, which claims American Jews are a fifth column that controls American policy for the benefit of Israel, is little more than a rehash of classic anti-Semitic tropes which is also rife with falsehoods.
Denying the Jewish People Their Right to Self-Determination
The “One State Conference” seeks to promote the destruction of Israel’s Jewish character. Conference organizer Ahmed Moor says as much in a piece he wrote for the Huffington Post entitled, “Israel’s Jewish Character Is Subject for Debate.”
The conference will feature a number of panels. Panel 7 deals with cultural identity, asking “What role should the state play in the maintenance of the national groups’ identities? Will it be necessary to forge a new, shared identity in the new state?” It is interesting that this question should be addressed without a single pro-Israel panelist participating.
Many people with an intimate understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict insist that the one-state solution is wholly impossible to implement. Worse, it is a recipe for protracted ethnic bloodshed. Could that be true?
Could it? Let’s examine this issue. With a Jewish minority in Israel, Jews would face the same fate as ethnic and religious minorities in other Arab countries. For example:
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According to human rights activist and former Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Sudanese government’s sustained persecution of religious minorities culminated in the genocide in Darfur that began in 2003. Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which charged him with three counts of genocide, and still the violence rages on.
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Saudi Arabia bars all public expressions of religion other than Wahhabi Islam and prohibits all non-Muslim houses of worship. Saudi police recently raided a private home and arrested 35 Christians who had gathered simply to pray.
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For decades, Coptic Christians have been second class citizens in Egypt where the building or even routine maintenance of a church was illegal, but since the fall of Hosni Mubarak violence against Christians has surged. Recently thousands of Muslims went on a rampage, attacking Copts, burning and looting Coptic homes and shops.
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In Iraq, church bombings are increasingly common. Since June of 2004, 70 churches have been bombed.Thousands have been killed and nearly one half of Iraqi Christians have fled the country.
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In Tunisia, the dominant political party, Ennahda, plans to institute Shariah law.
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In Libya, the head of the Tripoli Military Council once led an Islamic militia with links to al-Qaida. He intends to run for office in upcoming elections which makes Christians uneasy.
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Christians in Yemen are subject to abuse when they openly embrace their Christianity, with men being beaten and women harassed. They are not allowed even to bury their dead in the capital of Sana’a where all cemeteries are strictly Muslim.
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Since Hamas took over Gaza in 2007, the Christian community has been facing severe persecution, afraid to practice their religion publicly. In November of that year, a Christian bookstore was bombed and the store’s manager tortured and murdered.
In a conversation recorded on February 9, 2012 at Imperial College in London, infamous Judenrat Norman Finkelstein, who describes himself as having devoted his life to the “Palestinian cause” told his interviewer, “You know and I know exactly what we’re talking about because if we end the occupation, and we bring back 6 million Palestinians, and we have equal rights for Arabs and Jews, there’s no Israel. That’s what it’s really about.”
Israel was declared a state on May 14, 1948 and is a full fledged member of the United Nations. Its Declaration of Independence clearly states: “On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable. This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.”
One of the most wrenching facts of this war against the Jews is the central role played by Jewish enablers of anti-Semitism. These individuals, mostly in the universities (American and Israeli alike), have given protective cover to the revival of Jew-hatred, which gains momentum with each passing day. The fact that these enablers are Jewish gives legitimacy to the hateful rhetoric about Jews and the Jewish State, and allows such ideology to flourish with utter impunity.
“Jewish Enablers of the War Against the Jews” by University of Haifa Professor Stephen Plaut exposes these Jewish Jew-haters—this is the only label for them—for what they really are. Plaut has written 20 searing portraits based on the words and deeds of these enablers, including figures such as the notorious Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein; the pseudo-rabbi Michael Lerner; and Harvard’s Sara Roy, an apologist for the terror group Hamas. This collection is comprised of Israelis as well, including Oren Yiftachel, who composes tracts purporting to show that his own country is a racist, apartheid state.
As Plaut’s work shows, these are not “self-hating” Jews; they hate both Israel and America.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY demonstration for Free Palestine the day after Palestinians murdered 5 members of Israeli family:
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Three Die, Including Two Ex-Soldiers, in Shootout
The bodies of Mario Miguel Ibarrola Garcia and Roberto Maceda Pacheco – former members of the Defense Secretariat, which oversees Mexico’s army and air force – were found inside their luxury apartment in the state capital’s upscale Altamira neighborhood.
Investigators also discovered the body of another man, Jesus Jimenez Padilla, next to an AK-47 assault rifle and a bullet-riddled SUV with a Baja California state license plate.
Initial reports said Sunday morning’s shootout stemmed from a military operation in the area, but sources from the 15th Military Region told Efe the troops had merely responded to reports of gunfire and did not participate in the clash.
The state AG’s office thus far has not offered a motive for the gun battle nor indicated whether Jimenez Padilla belonged to an organized crime gang.
Approximately 50 organized crime-related homicides have occurred so far this year in Jalisco, including seven bodies found in clandestine graves and 15 others killed in a series of shootings in different parts of the state in late January.
The Los Zetas cartel, which served as the armed wing of the Gulf cartel until 2010, and the Jalisco Nueva Generacion gang, which was created following the death of Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, one of the leaders of the powerful Sinaloa drug mob, operate in that state.
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Mexican security forces bag six bad guys in Zacatecas
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Mexican Policia Federal (PF) and Zacatecas state police agents killed six armed suspects and detained eight others in Zacatecas in a brief running gunfight Monday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.
The shootout took place at about 0730 hrs between the communities of Buenavista de Trujillo and San Cristobal in Fresnillo, where state police agents observed the drivers of two trucks take evasive maneuvers when they saw the police, prompting at attempt at a traffic stop.
The drivers then attempted to flee, prompting a pursuit and an
exchange of gunfire.
Previous versions of the story were that agents had detained an unidentified Los Zetas Valapraiso cell leader, and that the appearance of several armed suspects was an attempt to free the leader. That version was not denied by Zacatecas attorney general, Arturo Nahle Garcia, however, subsequent reports from Zacatecas do not refer to the arrest. Nahle Garcia said an arrest had been made, and that several suspects did attack state police agents.
A version of the story published Monday afternoon by El Diario de Coahuila news daily was that when the state police agents were intercepted, they called for backup and that a PF road patrol unit showed up to provide relief.
PF road units frequently patrol and operate in Fresnillo and the surrounding area.
After the gunfight, a total of eight suspects were detained: Martin Hernandez Torres, AKA El Mongo, 35, Inocencio Pizaña Ramirez, 25, Everardo Daniel Casanova Mejia, 21, Hidalgo Jerez Cajbon Caal, 18, Eduardo Ramirez Arteaga, 37, Marcos Ivan Bojorquez Corona, 25 José Ordaz Razcoc, 31 and Domingo Beb Caal, 39.
All the detainees are from Guatemala, according to El Sol de Zacatecas news daily.
Materiel seized in the aftermath include: 87 weapons magazines, 2,156 rounds of ammunition, 63 “stars”, communications and tactical gear, and two vehicles: a Dodge Double Cab pickup truck and a Cadillac Escalade SUV, both reported stolen. El Diario de Coahuila reported six rifles and a rocket launcher was also seized following the confrontation.
Chris Covert writes Mexican drug war and national political news for Rantburg.com
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UPDATE: The 44 Dead in Apodica Prison Riot Were CDG Killed by Zetas-Then Escaped
In an interview with media, the warden said the riot occurred between 2 a.m. (0800 GMT) and 3 a.m. (0900 GMT) on Sunday due to the power struggle between members of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas Cartel that vie for control of drug sales inside the prison, located north of the city of Monterrey, capital of Nuevo Leon, about 800 km north of capital of Mexico City.
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Hogs, sows, shootouts
The city has been the scene of violent fighting between factions of the Gulf cartel that was precipitated by the September 2011 execution of Samuel Flores Borrego, “El Metro 3″, the Reynosa plaza boss at the time.
Saturday morning various peculiar messages containing cryptic threats and written in pink lettering were hung on banners that appeared on several pedestrian bridges.
The mesages read:
“A cada MARRANO le llega su 24.
Y en efecto esto pasó el 15-Feb-12 cayó otro de los traicioneros.
Pero la lista sigue y faltan varios.
Tarde o temprano le vamos a ir adelantando su 24 a cada uno.
Mientras pónganse a lidiar con su conciencia, porque después siguen las COCHINAS!”.
Every hog (filthy person) will get his 24.
And in fact this is what happened February 15, 2012 when another traitor fell.
But the list continues and others will follow.
Sooner or later we will overtake each one with their 24
Meanwhile you better grapple with your conscience, because the sows (filthy female) are next
Just as peculiar as the messages was the fact that they were published in the El Manana newspaper. Newspapers in Tamaulipas, and in particular those in the border cities, are censored by organized crime to prevent any mention of activities of organized crime. Both the Gulf cartel and Los Zetas follow this policy and only information that is approved by them is published.
It is probable that a Gulf cartel comandante ordered the banners published.
The penalty to disobey these orders to publish or not publish can mean death for local journalists.
The banners may fave foretold the heavy fighting that began Sunday morning in Reynosa between rival groups of armed civilians and intensified when military forces entered the fray.
The street battles began at 5:45am in the la Cañada area along boulevard El Maestro between armed civilians in pickups and on foot, possibly attacking safehouses, and spread to Las Fuentes and Valle Alto.
Automatic weapons and grenades were used by the groups and Army and Marine forces, including at least one armed helicopter, mounted an operation and entered the area an hour after the fighting started.
The fighting ended at about 8:30am. No casualties were reported but an unknown number of gunmen were believed to have died.
sources:
http://chuynews.blogspot.com/2012/02/en-el-dia-del-ejercito-mexicano-intensa.html
http://www.elmanana.com/diario/noticia/reynosa/noticias/aparecen_mantas_con_extrano_mensaje/1528604
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Mexico’s Deadliest Prison Riot in Apodaca as GDG and Zetas Clash
The entire prison staff on duty at the time has been detained to determine if guards were involved in the fighting, which started at 2 am, Mr. Domene said. The prison, built to house some 1,700 inmates is jammed full with some 2,700 prisoners, he said..
| Police hold back the relatives of inmates outside the Apodaca correctional state facility as they try to get past the gates in Apodaca on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico. |
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View Havana’s Post of Borderland Beat Forum of the same subject HERE
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Arsenal seized in Cuernavaca
(Photos courtesy of Milenio.com)
The Mexican Army reported the seizure of multiple weapons and tactical equipment Friday night in the municipality of Cuernavaca, Morelos. The city is located south of Mexico City and is considered a stronghold of the Cartel del Pacifico Sur, a small but powerful criminal group composed of the remnants of the Beltran Leyva Organization and led by Hector Beltran Leyva “El H”.
According to military authorities 19 mostly assault type weapons, 8 pistols, 153 magazines, approximately 4,000 rounds of ammunition, tactical harnesses, 1 kilogram of heroin and what appears to be a set of U.S. camouflage fatigues with U.S. hook and loop patches were discovered by soldiers inside an abandoned stolen vehicle that was located with information from an anonymous tip.
No arrests directed linked to the weapons were reported.
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http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/e20b3f03d115db8b6dbe7311d7755e7b
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FRANCE: Suburbs are becoming violent, crime-ridden Muslim ghettos
Posted: February 20, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islamization of the West | 21 Comments »
French suburbs are becoming ‘Muslim no-man’s land’, says French journalist and historian Alexandre Adler. Adler also said that many French Muslims want this, and that he’s concerned about the self-administration against the State in those neighborhoods.
Islam in Europe Adler said the violence in the suburbs can’t be explained only as social problems, and that it’s due to the Muslim doctrine that wherever Islam spreads is Muslim land.
According to Alexandre Adler, violence in the suburbs can not be explained only by social problems, but he said there is “a conception of the land base of Islam”: “There is the idea in the Muslim doctrine that most traditional it is a land of Islam. Wherever Islam has spread, where the people have accepted this land is now Islamic, “he said.
He said the situation in the French suburbs is comparable to Muslim areas of India that eventually secede and become Pakistan and Bangladesh. This what happens when districts try the merits of self-administration against state power. It is a land of Islam and at one point actually, the Republic will not be allowed in anymore, “he said.
Derby Patriot Radical Muslims in France’s housing estates are waging an undeclared “intifada” against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day.
As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded in 2010, a police union declared that its members were “in a state of civil war” with Muslims in the most depressed “suburban” estates which are heavily populated by unemployed youths of north African origin.
It said the situation was so grave that it had asked the government to provide police with armoured cars to protect officers in the estates, which are becoming no-go zones.
The number of attacks has risen by a third in two years. Police representatives told the newspaper Le Figaro that the “taboo” of attacking officers on patrol has been broken.
Instead, officers – especially those patrolling in pairs or small groups – faced attacks as soon as they tried to arrest locals.
Senior officers insisted that the problem was essentially criminal in nature, with crime bosses on the estates fighting back against tough tactics.
The interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also the leading centre-Right candidate for the presidency, has sent heavily equipped units into areas with orders to regain control from drug smuggling gangs and other organised crime rings. Such aggressive raids were “disrupting the underground economy in the estates”, one senior official told Le Figaro.
However, not all officers on the ground accept that essentially secular interpretation. Michel Thoomis, the secretary general of the hardline Action Police trade union, has written to Mr Sarkozy warning of an “intifada” on the estates and demanding that officers be given armoured cars in the most dangerous areas.
He said yesterday: “We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists. This is not a question of urban violence any more, it is an intifada, with stones and Molotov cocktails. You no longer see two or three youths confronting police, you see whole tower blocks emptying into the streets to set their ‘comrades’ free when they are arrested.”
He added: “We need armoured vehicles and water cannon. They are the only things that can disperse crowds of hundreds of people who are trying to kill police and burn their vehicles.”
Mayors in the worst affected suburbs, which saw weeks of riots and car-burning a year ago, have expressed fears of a vicious circle, as attacks by locals lead the police to harden their tactics, further increasing resentment.
As if to prove that point, there were angry reactions in the western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux following dawn raids in search of youths who attacked a police unit on Sunday. The raids led to one arrest. They followed clashes on Sunday night when scores of youths attacked seven officers who had tried to arrest a man for not wearing his seat belt while driving. That driver refused to stop, and later rammed a police car trying to block his path.
FRANCE: Mainstream Media underreports Muslim attacks on churches
Posted: February 20, 2012 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islamization of the West | 15 Comments »
While the media blows minor graffiti vandalism on mosques all out of proportion, they virtually cover up Muslim attacks on churches.
Islam vs Europe Muslims are behind the escalating attacks on churches in France. In the above photo, you can see graffiti sprayed on a church wall in Escaudain. It says “Fuck France”, “Fuck FN” (Front National), “Sarko(zy) we fuck you”, “Death to the Pigs”, and “Morocco Power!” But the AFP reported this incident, mentioning only the anti-Sarkozy and anti-Front National tags, completely leaving out the anti-French and pro-Moroccan (Muslim) messages.
Another church in Épiais, dating from the 16th century, was robbed and then burned. The perpetrators were also responsible for a series of recent burglaries in the area.
Church before Muslim immigration
The same church after Muslim immigration
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is close to agreement with Washington on the size of cuts refiners must make in imports of Iranian crude oil to win waivers from U.S. sanctions, two ministers said Tuesday after a media report the two sides would settle on an 11 percent cut. The Yomiuri newspaper, citing unidentified sources, said …
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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe turns 88, vowing to cling to power Reuters – 4 hrs agoHARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe turned 88 on Tuesday, vowing to stay in power despite grumbling inside his party that he should hand over to a younger … More »Zimbabwe’s Mugabe turns 88, vowing to cling to power
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe turned 88 on Tuesday, vowing to stay in power despite grumbling inside his party that he should hand over to a younger leader, and international condemnation of his economic and human rights record. Mugabe said he was healthy and fit, in an interview with state television …
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Out of sight, Somali piracy fight gets rougher Reuters – 1 hr 34 mins agoLONDON (Reuters) – When tanker master Miro Alibasic takes one of his company’s vast ships across the Indian Ocean, he likes to have all the firepower he can get on board. … More »Out of sight, Somali piracy fight gets rougher
LONDON (Reuters) – When tanker master Miro Alibasic takes one of his company’s vast ships across the Indian Ocean, he likes to have all the firepower he can get on board. Having seen last year how Somali pirates treat their captives, the 61-year-old is in no hurry to experience it again. “It was hell on earth,” he told …
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Photos make slow way home in tsunami-hit Japan Reuters – 8 hrs agoOFUNATO, Japan (Reuters) – In a large, bright room not far from the ocean that raged through this coastal Japanese city nearly a year ago, a handful of people with magnifying … More »Photos make slow way home in tsunami-hit Japan
OFUNATO, Japan (Reuters) – In a large, bright room not far from the ocean that raged through this coastal Japanese city nearly a year ago, a handful of people with magnifying glasses pore over boxes of photographs of friends or loved ones. The massive March 11 tsunami that leveled buildings and flattened towns along a wide …
