• The Washington Post saw straight through BDS shenanigans related to the Rolling Stones concert.
• Here’s a headline that’s awkward for BDS, but should encourage a raft of creative conspiracy theories:
Al-Qaida’s media wing using Israeli company for secure email
• Lot of commentary/analysis of the national unity government and fallout. Start off with staff-eds in the Wall St. Journal staff-ed (US winks at Palestinian terror — via Google News), Daily Telegraph (Hamas must renounce violence), LA Times (US should continue supporting PA), and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (thumbs up to the new government).
• See also David Horovitz (12 ways US has failed its ally, Israel), Khaled Abu Toameh (unity government leaves explosive issues hanging), Avi Issacharoff (government is united but Palestinians aren’t), Jonathan Schanzer (Lebanonization of the Palestinians), Ehud Yaari (reconciliation allows Hamas back into West Bank), Ben-Dror Yemini (Israel’s missed opportunity), Ron Ben-Yishai (Israel should work to enhance benefits of Palestinian unity), Michael Wilner (it’s the elections, stupid), AFP (Hamas ceded power to save face), Danny Rubinstein (unity in name only), Benny Avni (America embraces Hamas), and Prof. Ephraim Inbar (the unity charade).
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Bashar Assad claimed victory in Syrian elections. Even more pathetic than the fact that only people in government-controlled areas could vote was the fact that three people were killed by celebratory gunfire. BBC coverage suffices. ‘Nuff said.
• The former US ambassador to Syria told PBS Newshour he stepped down because he could no longer defend US policy there. Robert Ford blisteringly accused the Obama administration of being behind the curve.
• After an IDF intelligence officer assessed what a Hezbollah ground offensive against the northern Galilee might look like, Haaretz took note.
N. believes the IDF should not be asking whether Hezbollah is capable of attacking the Galilee but what it means that it is entertaining this idea. He sees a warning light, indicating a paradigm change.
• BBC division to cut 500 jobs.
• Worth reading: Douglas Murray responds to the arrest of Mehdi Nemmouche, who killed four people in a rampage at the Brussels Jewish museum. “They always come for the Jews.”
• When Turkey has problems, Israel always gets blamed
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For more, see the previous Israel Daily News Stream.
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