• President Abbas said he is willing to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu in New York—potentially a sign that U.N. maneuvers could still be headed off. [Haaretz]
• Western diplomats certainly haven’t given up. [NYT]
• It is conventional wisdom among administration hands that Bashar Assad is not long for ruling Syria. They are looking to Iraq as a model for the ethnically fractured country, and the American occupation thereof as what not to let happen. [NYT]
• On the question of Palestine, China speaks! But it doesn’t really say anything. [Arutz Sheva]
• Instability in Israel and Syria threatens his regime, Jordan’s king, Abdullah II, complains. (Full interview here.) [WSJ]
• Israel’s embassy in Cairo reopened for the first time since it was stormed a week and a half ago. [NYT]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.