Daybreak: Many Roads to Mecca
Plus, Central Park Elmo is worse than we thought, and more in the news
June 28, 2012
Can you tell me how to ever feel clean again?(Fisher Price/Getty Images)
• Saudi Arabia is readying alternate routes to export oil in case Iran starts sumthin’ in the Strait of Hormuz. [JPost/Reuters]
• The horrifying details of the anti-Semitic Central Park Elmo are revealed and will make you want to hide your kids forever. Included in the story is the saddest picture of a terrible man wearing furry red puppet pants that you will ever see. [NYT]
• A French anti-racism group has settled with Google over its autocomplete function that often suggests “Jewish” as the top choice next to public figures names. [JTA]
• The Israeli city of Ra’anana has banned the planned gay pride parade. [Haaretz]
• Egypt’s new president-elect Mohamed Morsi is filing a lawsuit against an Iranian news agency that fabricated an interview in which he promised to improve relations between Egypt and the Islamic Republic. [JPost]
• The clock is at half past uh-oh as Turkey places antiaircraft batteries along the Syrian border. [NYT]
• A Hamas official was assassinated in Damascus. [Haaretz]
