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Daybreak: Obama Preps to Address United Nations

Plus Pamela Geller’s ‘Savage’ ads are getting defaced in NYC subways

by
Adam Chandler
September 25, 2012
President Obama Addressing the United Nations in 2011(Reuters)
President Obama Addressing the United Nations in 2011(Reuters)

• An excerpt released ahead of President Obama’s speech to United Nations General Assembly shows a muscular speech in which Iran and the recent violent riots across the Muslim world will be themes. [Times of Israel]

• A few shells fired from Syria landed near the Israeli border earlier this morning. [NYT]

• Controversial ads by Pamela Geller’s organization, American Freedom Defense Initiative, have been altered or covered up at various New York City subway stations. [Mondoweiss]

• The Times questions whether or not an investor named Paul Abrams, who was set to raise a huge sum of money for the Broadway musical “Rebecca” but reportedly died, ever lived at all. [NYT]

• In an op-ed for YNet, a settler speaks out in favor of marijuana use as a religious rite. [YNet]

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.