• Reconciled. Much more at 10. [NYT]
• Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman inisted his government would not negotiate with the new unity Palestinian body. [AP/WP]
• The southern town of Dara’a, symbol and center of Syria’s uprising, continued to sustain a total siege. [NYT]
• The U.N. Security Council could not muster unanimty for a press statement condemning Syria; moreover, Russia seems dead-set against military intervention. [NYT]
• Sen. John McCain, recently returned from Libya, actually also came out against military intervention in Syria. [AP/WP]
• Turkey is emerging as a main broker to try to force President Assad to engage with his reform-seeking protesters. [AP/WP]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.