September 16, 2010

In the illustrative children’s cartoons, “Where’s Waldo?”, readers are asked to feast their eyes on a confusing, highly unrealistic scene to find a lankly, ridiculous-looking little man in a striped red shirt named ‘Waldo’, or, if you’re a Brit, ‘Wally’. Many of the illustrations contain a number of ‘red herrings’: red and white objects deceptively similar to Waldo, but are not actually Waldo.

For better or worse, it will forever be viewed a major turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: ten years ago this month, a notably overweight aspirant Israeli politician named Ariel Sharon proudly ascended Jerusalem’s Temple Mount escorted by 1,000 Israeli police officers.