Your third Current Events Blog Post

Here are four articles for the third Current Events blog post assignment – you choose one you wish to summarize and analyze.

Before you start working on this, carefully read the evaluation of your first and second post so you do not make the same mistakes.

I suggest you re-read the assignment instructions in the Blog Hub tab entitled “Current Events Blog Post and Grading.” 

The first step in the preparation of your blog post is to understand the article, and this may entail reading some earlier reports on the same event (links to earlier articles are often included in online newspapers), reading about the topic in other newspapers or websites, or looking up terms or background information.   When you reference this information in your post, make a link to it – but be careful to differentiate between the actual article and the background information you are providing.  That is, your summary of the article should really be a summary of what is in the newspaper.  Your added explanation (it is probably essential to provide this) can follow the summary.

This assignment is worth 70 course points.  It will take a lot of work, so plan accordingly.  Your post will need to be a carefully researched and polished piece of writing.  Every article below deals with controversial matters, and you will need to write objectively.

Your post is due no later than 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, 2019.


1. Israel’s election day was April 9, and this Haaretz article describes a range of statements from “undecided” voters.  If you understand how the Israeli election system works (and somewhere in your post you’ll need to explain it so that the article makes sense), you will see that voting decisions in Israel are far more complex than in the U.S.

2. This Jerusalem Post article focuses on the current effort to make a ceasefire between Hamas (the ruling group in Gaza) and the Israeli government/military.  Somewhere in your post you'll need to provide background about the current governance of Gaza.

3. This Times of Israel article, “With Netanyahu’s help, far-right party member could become MK,” explains why the Israeli political party, Otzmah Yehudit, is considered so troubling for Israeli voters.  Here, too, you'll need to give background information on that party and its agenda.

4. Election fever!  Here is an article from Palestine News Network showing that a majority of Palestinians (in the territories) want more elections.  The second and third paragraphs of the article seem to have some editing errors (perhaps you can find this information elsewhere), but the rest of it is pretty informative.