Daybreak: Bibi Lashes Out Over Attacks
Plus Homs pulverized, Adelson’s new agenda, and more in the news
February 15, 2012
Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier this week.(Gali Tibbon - Pool/Getty Images)
• Following this week’s attacks on Israeli diplomatic staff, Prime Minister Netanyahu called on the world to condemn Iran, which he blames. [Haaretz]
• Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, is under particularly intense bombardment as President Assad remains defiant. [NYT]
• Thomas Friedman compares Assad to his bloodthirsty father. [NYT]
• As his preferred candidate, Newt Gingrich, flails, billionaire casino magnate and top Republican donor Sheldon Adelson seems to have a new agenda: keep Rick Santorum from winning the nomination. [WSJ]
• Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, is booming, even as some worry Israel is creeping too close to a victimhood/Auschwitz mentality. [NYT]
• The Pekingese won Best in Show. Lame. [NYT]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
