Daybreak: U.S. Fears Israeli Attack in Spring
Plus Syria still being hashed out, and more in the news
February 03, 2012
Defense Minister Barak yesterday.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
• David Ignatius reports/sends the message that U.S. officials worry Israel will attack Iran in the next six months, before the nuclear program develops enough enriched uranium to enter a “zone of immunity,” where it could develop a weapon whenever. [WP]
• The U.N. Security Council is getting closer to a resolution that would outline a plan for Syrian regime change, but any authorization of force, either now or in the future, seems unlikely. [FP Turtle Bay]
• Jackson Diehl outlines the vast repercussions the Syrian crisis is having across the region. [WP]
• Iran may have freed as many as five al-Qaida operatives from jails recently. [WSJ]
• Rabbi Menachem Youlus, the Maryland-based Torah-saving “Jewish Indiana Jones,” admitted in court that he is a fraud. [NYT]
• How wrong and stupid and offensive is this video of prominent pastor Eddie Long? A fellow Christian clergywoman helpfully counts the ways. [Huff Post]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
