• The waffling of peace talks have led President Abbas to face a growing rebellion from within his own Fatah party. [WSJ]
• President Ahmadinejad was greeted in Iran by cheering crowds. [WSJ]
• The U.S. State Department responded to yesterday’s peace-talk developments—a proposed and rejected freeze in exchange for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state—with something that I’ll leave you to try to decipher. [Haaretz]
• How olive trees became symbols of the struggle between West Bank Palestinians and settlers. [NYT]
• New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino apologized for his anti-gay remarks in an ultra-Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn Sunday. [NYT]
• Robert Tishman, a huge New York real estate mogul and philanthropist, died at 94. [NYT]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.