Daybreak: The End Seems Nigh for Assad
Plus a highly-sought Nazi war criminal is captured
July 18, 2012
• A brazen attack in Damascus kills the Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajiha and Assef Shawkat, Syrian intelligence chief and Assad’s brother-in-law. [BBC]
• Laszlo Csatary, most wanted Nazi war criminal, has been arrested in Hungary. [BBC]
• Huma Abedin, deputy chief of state for Hillary Clinton (and Anthony Weiner’s wife), stands by her man in People. [People]
• Former Laker and Maccabi Tel Aviv semi-Jew/semi-baller, Jordan Farmar will play basketball in Turkey. [JTA]
• Our favorite Kabbalist Madonna is being sued for flashing an image of Marine Le Pen with a swastika on her forehead at a concert in Paris. [Jewcy]
Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.
