* Must read: Examining Gaza’s increasing number of honor killings, Newsweek correspondent Kevin Peraino finds that Hamas, Fatah, and human rights groups are stymied by legal paralysis and public apathy. Will the killers of the three Juha sisters be brought to justice?
* Ex-jihadis are getting into print these days. AP talked with Ahmed al-Shayea, who is being “de-programmed” by Saudis after surviving a truck bombing he drove in Baghdad. And in an even more remarkable story, The Guardian reports that Sayid Imam al-Sharif is writing a widely-anticipated recantation of violent jihad that has Al-Qaida leaders worried:
No one is predicting that the book will stop suicide bombings in Iraq or Afghanistan, but interest is so intense that several Arabic newspapers are competing to buy the 100-page work, entitled: Advice Regarding the Conduct of Jihadist Action in Egypt and the World.
* The Boston Globe picked up on Sderot suffering, meeting teenagers who came to Massachusetts for a summer getaway. Reporter Steven Rosenberg discovered you can take the kids out of Sderot, but you can’t take Sderot out of the kids:
The children began to cry and shake when they heard the thunder and saw the lightning during the camp dance. One girl fainted. Another hugged a counselor so hard that she dug her fingernails into the woman’s back.
Everyone had the same thought: The boom from the sky was a Qassam rocket.
* See the NY Times Magazine, where an Iraqi fixer shares a fascinating first-person account of working for Western news services.
