Sundown: French Envoy Dismissed Over Stance

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Roger Cohen Has a Jewish Problem

Which is to say, it is an Israel problem, too

Daybreak: Bibi Proposes Housing Solution

Plus, Abbas declares emergency, Beck goes really tasteless, and more in the news

Daybreak: Unity Blues

Plus Obama ditches Weiner, and more in the news

Daybreak: Post-Speech, Bibi Chills Out

Plus, Abbas, Ross, the Druze, and more in the news

Sundown: The Bel of the Ball

Plus, why Assad is still around, the most perfect Brooklyn trend piece, and more

Sundown: War With Hezbollah Could Get Ugly

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Sundown: Cabinet Grants Peace Now Request

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Double Standards

Today on Tablet

High Morals

A condescending moral double standard allows Western thinkers—notably Times foreign-affairs columnist Roger Cohen—to praise the Middle East’s worst regimes