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Daybreak: Waiting for Bibi

Plus Turkey won’t cooperate on flotilla, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
April 15, 2011
Last May.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
Last May.(Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

• Prime Minister Netanyahu will announce a new peace push to a joint session of the U.S. Congress next month. [WSJ]

• Turkey denied Israel’s request to halt any future flotillas. “This is an initiative by civil society,” the government said. [Reuters/Haaretz]

• Despite President Assad’s firing of several ministers and releasing several prisoners, Syria continues to be in a state of upheaval. [LAT]

• Victor Arrigoni, an Italian International Solidary Movement activist beloved in Gaza, was kidnapped and killed there by a radical fringe jihadi group. [NYT]

• The World Bank debates the economics of the new Middle East. [NYT]

• Arthur Marx, son of Groucho and a writer in his own right, died at 89. [NYT]

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