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Daybreak: New Terror Front, Eilat Attacked

Plus Iran doesn’t want talking in Turkey, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
April 05, 2012
Building Israel's fence on the southern border with Sinai.(Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
Building Israel's fence on the southern border with Sinai.(Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)

• In a highlight of how the Sinai has become a terrorist launching pad, a Grad rocket was fired at the southern resort town of Eilat. [Haaretz]

• Iran doesn’t want next week’s talks in Turkey. It would prefer to make no progress in Iraq or China. [NYT]

• Meanwhile, Turkey’s government summoned the Iranian ambassador, ostensibly over the foreign minister’s remark criticizing the Friends of Syria conference, but also over this. [Yahoo! The Envoy]

• There is evidence that Iran has attempted to foment anti-American feeling and perhaps violence in Afghanistan, throwing into question where else Iran can (or can’t) use its elite forces to cause trouble for U.S. interests. [NYT]

• Prime Minister Netanyahu on the economy: “if you deduct the Arabs and ultra-Orthodox from inequality indexes, we’re in great shape.” Ha? [Haaretz]

• At a public event at Harvard, Peter Beinart criticized Taglit-Birthright for not showing American Jews the Palestinian perspective (or the Palestinians, for that matter), prompting a heated back-and-forth with his interlocutor, Boston’s Federation president. [JTA]

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