• President Obama’s AIPAC speech yesterday appeared to sate the Netanyahu government (and the prime minister himself took a nice walk along the Potomac with his wife). [WP]
• Meanwhile, also in response to the speeches, President Abbas doubled down on his new alliance with Hamas. [Ynet]
• The Golan Heights, from the perspective of its 20,000 or so Druze inhabitants. [NYT]
• A profile of top administration adviser Dennis Ross, generally seen as Israel’s best friend in the White House. [NYT]
• Roger Cohen stands by Obama. [NYT]
• For the second time this month, masked men shot and killed a suspected Israeli collaborator in the West Bank—generally a rarity under the Abbas/Fayyad regime. [Reuters/Vos Iz Neias?]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.