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Daybreak: Don’t Mention The Weapons

Plus, Harvard Holocaust denial and Sharansky on that ad

by
Marc Tracy
September 11, 2009

• Iran’s five-page proposal for holding negotiations with the United States makes no mention of its nuclear weapons program. [ProPublica]
• Egypt and Jordan, which have peace deals with Israel, joined their colleagues in the Arab League in announcing they will not normalize diplomatic ties with Israel until the Palestinian Authority is offered an acceptable final-status agreement. [Arutz Sheva]
The Harvard Crimson published an ad questioning whether the Holocaust happened; the error was the result of “a logistical failure and not a philosophical one,” according to the editor. [JPost]
• Natan Sharansky, once Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs, called the Masa “lost” ad about intermarriage an instance of “Israeli insensitivity to the sensibilities of U.S. Jews.” [Haaretz]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.