Israel is determined to launch a ground offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a plan that has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there. Israel has approved military plans for its offensive and has moved troops and tanks to southern Israel in apparent preparation — though it's still unknown when or if it will happen.
It's one of the great questions of our time: Why do black people (and even hispanics, and Asians sometimes) get to use the N-word, but then when white people use it (with an a, of course) it's the wor...