Turbulence and bloodshed. It became a separate nation after they withdrew from palestine in 1948. It was immediately attacked by its neighboring arab states, who resented the new nation and considered its creation to be illegal. Israel successfully beat off the attacks, and a series of honest disagreements worked out by the United Nations brought an end to organized warfare in 1949. Since then, israel has worked at fever pitch and with a tough and Pioneering Spirit to make a selfsufficient nation within its borders. Even industry, despite limitation in raw materials, has grown rapidly. At variance with this picture are the camps outside israels borders, where more than one million arab refugees maintain a miserable existence and demand the right to return to the homes in palestine from which they say they were dispossessed during the war. Israel says it would be impossible to readmit them. It has offered to discuss compensation. But the arab states, supporting the refugees demands, refuse to acknowledge israels right to palestine and will not accept any conditions at all. Monday night on the communicators, the fcc on reclassifying broadband as a utility and other key issues in 2015. I for one believe that the by sartre bipartisan consensus that has been in place has served us pretty well, from nice 98 when they decided the internet would be an information service, not a more heavily regulated telecommunication service. It was chairman from both communicable both parties that recognize light touch regulation was the best way to incentivize broadband expansion. I stand with parties that recognize that light touch regulation is the way to go. But the debate has taken a turn starting with the president s announcement in december. We now stand poised to consider what is called title ii, carrier regulation. In my view, that heavy regulated heavyhanded regulation would be a term this stake for the american consumer. Monday night on the communicators on cspan2. Up next on American History tv, Marietta College history professor Andrew Warman discusses smallpox and revolutionary air america, and the campaign to inoculate colonists, which was promoted by political leaders like john adams. Adams his wife abigail, and their children, were all inoculated, despite widespread fears of new medical practice. This program is from an event marking their 250th wedding anniversary in massachusetts and was cohosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society , and the Abigail Adams historical society. It is about 30 minutes. Thank you. What an interesting time to be giving a talk on infection and disease and epidemic, right . With ebola in the news, we tend to forget in our modern health crazed society that early americans, the founders and ordinary people alike, really understood Infectious Diseases in ways we dont. They knew the protocols. They knew how to respond to them