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Daybreak: Post-Speech, Bibi Chills Out

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

by
Marc Tracy
May 23, 2011
Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, yesterday evening.(Ynet)
Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, yesterday evening.(Ynet)

• President Obama’s AIPAC speech yesterday appeared to sate the Netanyahu government (and the prime minister himself took a nice walk along the Potomac with his wife). [WP]

• Meanwhile, also in response to the speeches, President Abbas doubled down on his new alliance with Hamas. [Ynet]

• The Golan Heights, from the perspective of its 20,000 or so Druze inhabitants. [NYT]

• A profile of top administration adviser Dennis Ross, generally seen as Israel’s best friend in the White House. [NYT]

• Roger Cohen stands by Obama. [NYT]

• For the second time this month, masked men shot and killed a suspected Israeli collaborator in the West Bank—generally a rarity under the Abbas/Fayyad regime. [Reuters/Vos Iz Neias?]

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