We have clearly benefited in the past from cheap money, cheap labor and cheap natural resources and it seems very clear that all of these very positive trends are reversing one by one.

“Masked gunmen from an Islamist group torched a UN-run summer camp for children and teens in Gaza on Sunday, Army Radio reported, the top UN aid official in Gaza said.”

“During the past month alone, five Gazans have been executed with formal sanction from the Strip’s Hamas rulers, three of them shot to death in front of the families of their victims just last Tuesday. Their bloodied bodies were then unceremoniously dumped at the local Shifa Hospital.”

“Modesty patrols” inspect cars to catch unmarried women with men who aren’t relatives.