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What a dejavu-feeling these abortion-debates always are. No-one has said anything for ages that wouldn't have been said countless times before. But let me add another comment to those comments which have been mentioned many times before: Why is it always old men who are most vehemently against abortion? Why do they consider the whole issue their business in the first place?

Often a question of sheer practicality. In having statistics on immigration putting them all under the tag "israel" as a country of origin would not exactly paint a truthful picture. Nothing to do with recognising or not recognising the Palestine state. Must be a bit similar that you view immigrants from Greenland as coming from Greenland, not Denmark or even after 16 years still view immigrants from Hong Kong coming from Hong kong instead of China.

Isn't the Dominican Republic a relatively wealthy country by Latin American standards? Even if it were not it is still much better off than Haiti which is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. The two countries share a small island of Hispaniola. I wonder how stressed the border-agency of the D Rep must be.

Sad news. However, I can't help asking as the news said the victim was a missionary, even though voodoo is still strong in Haiti isn't it officially a christian country?

I always get very sceptical when there are news of foiled terrorist attacks. They are always used as an excuse to further curb individual freedoms. After all, if the objective is to foil terrorist attacks you don't report about foiling them so that any would-be terrorists could learn from the mistakes made by others.