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What to read before the work day begins? • Turkey Predicts Alliance With Egypt as Regional Anchors — Turkey’s foreign minister foresees Israel and Syria isolated by Egyptian-Turkish “Axis of Democracy.” • Abbas’ UN Fantasy —…

Pesach Benson
September 19, 2011
12:00 am

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What to read before the work day begins?

• Turkey Predicts Alliance With Egypt as Regional Anchors — Turkey’s foreign minister foresees Israel and Syria isolated by Egyptian-Turkish “Axis of Democracy.”

• Abbas’ UN Fantasy — Ambassador Ron Prosor on why negotiations are the only way to statehood.

• Palestinians May Win a Vote, But They Won’t Be a State — Jeffrey Goldberg on why the UN campaign threatens Salam Fayyad’s nation-building.

• US Mulls Military Hotline With Tehran — Persian Gulf near-misses spark debate, but aren’t the Revolutionary Guards a designated terror organization?

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Tags: Egypt, Jeffrey Goldberg, Palestinian statehood, Ron Prosor, Turkey, UN

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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