Osama bin Laden has plenty on his mind but he managed to pay close attention this month to the events surrounding Israel’s 60th anniversary and the parallel commemoration of the ”nakba” — the catastrophe — that the creation of the Jewish state in 1948 meant for the Palestinians.
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/ 11 January 2008
Accusing Poland of having forced out Jews who survived the Holocaust, historian Jan Gross sparked a backlash ahead of the Friday launch of the Polish edition of his book, Fear. ”Until now, no one has ever written like Gross … about the attitude of Poles towards the Jews,” said historian Pawel Machcewicz, a fierce critic of the Polish-born Jewish writer.
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/ 15 October 2007
American economists Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday for laying the foundations of an economic theory that determines when markets are working effectively. Hurwicz, Russian-born but an American citizen, is 90 years old and is the oldest-ever recipient of a Nobel Prize.