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Daybreak: Actual Aid To Finally Get Through

Plus Moonbeam and Goebbels, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
June 16, 2010

• In the coda, the United Nations expects to deliver the flotilla’s humanitarian cargo to Gaza soon. [NYT]

• In Istanbul, Tom Friedman warns that U.S.-Turkey relations could be headed for catastrophe. [NYT]

• The Israeli flotilla probe will meet for the first time next week. [Haaretz]

• The East Jerusalem construction plan whose announcement three months ago, when Vice President Biden was in town, sparked tensions was just ratified. [JPost]

• California’s former governor (and current gubernatorial candidate) Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown says he regrets having compared a rival’s tactics to Goebbels’. [AP/Vos Iz Neias?]

• Many at the U.N. still endorse the Secretary General’s plan for an international flotilla probe. [Ben Smith]

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