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The curtain is about to go up on the confirmation hearings for President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Sonya Sotomayor. During the advance maneuvering, The New York Times reported that the campaign against Sotomayor has been drawing inspiration from the attacks that succeeded against President Clinton’s nomination for a Justice Department position of Lani Guinier.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a two-state solution for the first time, but attached conditions that have left Palestinians unsatisfied, to say the least. [WP]
• While generally praising President Obama’s Cairo speech, The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg agrees with André Aciman that “a mention of the eight hundred thousand Jewish refugees from Arab ...