• Haaretz updates what’s known about the pending prisoner release.
• Did Kerry give Abbas written guarantee that talks will be based on ’67 lines?
• Dueling NY Times op-eds weigh in for and against the EU’s settlement boycott guidelines. See also the Financial Times‘ in-depth look at the issue (via Google News).
• For more commentary/analysis, see Amira Hass, Nahum Barnea, the Times of Israel, Daily Telegraph, Jennifer Rubin, Amir Taheri, Daniel Hannan and Brendan O’Neill, plus staff-eds in the NY Post, NY Daily News, and Irish Times.
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• Egypt’s barring Gaza fishermen from waters off the northern Sinai coast. Well shiver me timbers: The Guardian will have to send landlubber reporters like Harriet Sherwood and Rory McCarthy back out to sea:
Egyptian security officials told Ma’an that the decision aims to prevent Palestinians and members of militant groups from entering Egyptian territory.
Ambassador Anne Patterson
• Egyptians love conspiracy theories. Even the relatively respectable Al-Ahram couldn’t pass up on one about the US ambassador. The NY Times explains:
It was not clear whether the Al Ahram report was the work of an overzealous editor who failed to consult his superiors, a trial balloon or just a mistake. The front page of Monday’s edition, posted on the Web Sunday evening, said in a banner headline, “Public Prosecutor Orders the Detention of Morsi for 15 Days.”
Below that, in eight breathless smaller headlines, the paper described a scheme by Mr. Morsi, colluding with the American ambassador, to “run the country” from a Cairo mosque. It promised details of the “American conspiracy against Egypt in the last hours of the reign of the Brotherhood,” . . .
• The Wall St. Journal (via Google News) looks at the Egyptian army’s battle against Sinai jihadis. And four Egyptian security personnel were killed in the latest attacks.
• The Irish Times takes a nice long look at Hezbollah in Syria.
• For more Arab Spring commentary/analyis, see Jonathan Stevenson, Dore Gold, McClatchy News, Tariq Almohayed, Leslie Gelb,
Rest O’ the Roundup
• A NY Times staff-ed wants to give diplomacy with Iran more time
• Michael Herzog comments on Israeli-Turkish reconciliation in a Hurriyet commentary.
• It’s just a movie, right?
World War Z’s portrayal of post-conflict Jerusalem irks Arab viewers
For more, see yesterday’s Israel Daily News Stream.
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