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Daybreak: Abbas ‘Chooses’ Bibi for Peace

Plus Barak hits back at Iran dissenters, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
May 01, 2012
President Abbas addressing the Tunisian parliament yesterday.(Fethi Belaid/AFP/GettyImages)
President Abbas addressing the Tunisian parliament yesterday.(Fethi Belaid/AFP/GettyImages)

• President Abbas said, oddly enough, “I choose [Prime Minister] Netanyahu as my partner for peace. With whom else can I make peace?” He reiterated his call for a settlement freeze before returning to talks. [Haaretz]

• After the weekend’s rush of vocal opposition to an attack on Iran, you knew this was coming: Defense Minister Barak speculated that sanctions would fail, meaning military action would be necessary. [NYT]

• Israel’s national security adviser heads to Brussels for “secret” E.U. meetings about the nuclear talks in Baghdad later this month. [Haaretz]

• Former Kadima leader Tzipi Livni resigned from Knesset, but may soon form her own party in advance of expected elections. [Ynet]

• The past decade saw rising income inequality in Israel: not anything as bad as in the United States, but significant. [Haaretz]

• A Likud minister told an American audience that the Mitt Romney-Netanyahu relationship had been “exaggerated.” [Buzzfeed Politics]

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