* YNet News explains how the latest allegations of Israel undermining Temple Mount mosques are hardly new. See also Daily Telegraph coverage of the controversy.
* Fascinating and unusual slices of life in Gaza by AP’s Sarah El Deeb. She explains, among other things, how the choice of music on Hamas and Fatah radio stations really gauge the state of violence.
* The Philadelphia Inquirer features American ex-pats in the IDF trying to get past the language barrier. One soldier told the Inquirer:
“When they are yelling at you and the others, you just shrug it off,” he said. “You don’t have any idea what they are saying.”
* “Don’t ask, don’t tell” takes on new meaning at Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center. The hospital is treating casualties of Gaza’s civil war. Israel National News writes:
However, doctors refrained from comment on the patients’ terrorist connections, saying that medicine has always been forced to ignore political conflicts. None of the Arabs receiving treatment in the hospital were willing to publicly expose their own affiliation with either of the rival terrorist groups, either.
The Barzilai Medical Center deputy director, Dr. Ron Lobel, said, “We certainly don’t check if someone belongs to Hamas, to [Islamic] Jihad or if he comes from Sderot – we treat everyone exactly the same way.”
* The LA Times updates how Israel is countering Iran’s nuclear program.
