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Daybreak: Case Against DSK Evaporating

Plus, next week the flotilla, settlement clash, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
July 01, 2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn last month.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn last month.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

• The case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is unraveling. The former International Monetary Fund head and leading French presidential candidate is accused of sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid, but her credibility has been put in doubt. [NYT]

• The flotilla will sail next week, a spokesperson said (while Gaza businessmen said the main problem with the blockade was exporting, not importing). [Reuters/Haaretz]

• It’s not just Egypt: Across the region, the United States is engaging with Islamist parties in order to try to steer the Arab Spring somewhat. [WSJ]

• An anti-settlement riot breaks out in the northern West Bank. [@IDFSpokesperson]

• Meet the Local Coordination Committees, the emerging, street-level opposition to the Assad regime in Syria. [NYT]

• Meanwhile, senior Syrian opposition members have signed and presented a road map for Assad, which includes him leading his country to true democracy. Do we have to call it a road map? Those tend not to work. [Ynet]

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