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Daybreak: Two For War

Plus new talks, Mofaz beats Livni, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
March 28, 2012
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak late last year.(Ahikam Seri/Getty Images)
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak late last year.(Ahikam Seri/Getty Images)

• Prime Minister Netanyahu, the self-appointed savior, and Defense Minister Barak, the military man, have teamed up for a potentially explosive buddy comedy. But can they get at least six of their friends in the cabinet to greenlight the production? [NYT]

• Though things like “location” and “exact date” are hazy, there are theoretically nuclear talks with Iran scheduled for a couple weeks from now. [JTA]

• Shaul Mofaz decisively won the Kadima vote, unseating Tzipi Livni as head of the opposition and the Knesset’s largest party. More later. [NYT]

• There is exactly one big Jewish Obama ’08 bundler who isn’t doing the same this year: Hollywood’s very own David Geffen. [Forward Thinking]

• The Times’ take on the J Street conference and lobbying efforts. [NYT]

• The primary challenger (who is black) to Sen. Ben Cardin, Democrat of Maryland (who is Jewish), is handing out literature noting that there are zero senators from a group that’s 12 percent of the U.S. population and 12 from a figure’s 1.8 percent. It’s ugly as politicking, but here’s the thing: about the former figure, at least, he has a point. [Buzzfeed]

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