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Building for Israelis in East Jerusalem is illegal under international law, raises tensions, and, by making it ever harder to define the lines separating the city into the capitals of two states, complicates efforts to reach a peace agreement.

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We're constantly creating tensions and conflicts.

Tensions between these two families date back to 1913 when there was a dispute over local political power.

Will there be tensions over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

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