Rest O’ the Roundup
• Iranian lawmakers grilled Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif over his views on the Holocaust. AP explains what prompted this:
The questioning was prompted by an interview Mohammed Javad Zarif gave to German media in February in which he said the Holocaust was a “horrifying tragedy” that should never happen again.
In the end, parliament voted against censuring Zarif.
• Walid Jumblatt, political leader of Lebanon’s Druze community, urged Syrian rebels to shun Israeli aid days after one Syrian dissident told the Times of Israel that the time has come for rebels to openly seek Israeli support.
• Since Mark Twain coined the phrase, “Truth is stranger than fiction” (see the full quote), I wonder what the American writer would say about the latest conspiracy theory coming from Egypt. The Lede has background on this video from MEMRI.
Egyptian TV Cites “Simpsons” as Proof Arab Spring Was a Foreign Plot
• BBC: Lebanon forcibly expelled 41 Palestinian refugees back to Syria.
• Did Samantha Power Just Rebuke Obama on Syria?
• News services fumbling their Mideast coverage are just as skewing other areas of coverage. Providence Journal columnist Mark Patinkin (via Jim Romenesko) called out Big Media for its coverage of the botched Oklahoma execution. Patinkin brings to mind some parallels when Arafat Jaradat died in an Israeli prison last year.
(Image of Capitol via Flickr/Phil Roeder)
For more, see Monday’s Israel Daily News Stream.
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