News:
The IMF urges Israel to ease restrictions [1] on the struggling Palestinian economy. (AFP)
Pres. Abbas meets with US envoy Indyk [2] to discuss peace talks progress. (Jerusalem Post)
The PA reportedly says Israel has agreed to release another 250 Palestinian prisoners [3]. (YNet)
Israel's finance minister Lapid hints at support for an interim agreement [4] with the Palestinians. (Jerusalem Post)
Israeli Bedouins call a pending mass relocation plan "another Nakba." [5] (Christian Science Monitor)
Palestinians demand the removal of 100 Israeli cellular towers [6] in the occupied West Bank. (Times of Israel)
The family of the Jenin man killed by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday says he was shot "in cold blood." [7] (Ma'an)
A PA meeting designed to form a new cabinet ends without any decision [8]. (Ma'an)
Israel closes the al-Aqsa mosque [9] compound and denies entrance to Muslim worshipers. (Ma'an)
The PA cabinet condemns [10] Israel's policies towards the al-Aqsa mosque. (PNN)
Hamas says it will make a film [11] about capturing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and the prisoner swap with Israel. (Xinhua)
Two people are injured [12] in clashes in a major Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. (Xinhua)
The war in Syria has reignited divisions [13] among Palestinians over regional alignments. (Al Monitor)
In his upcoming UN speech, PM Netanyahu will reportedly focus on Iran [14]. (New York Times)
A senior Israeli general says Pres. Assad could survive "for years." [15] (Reuters)
Pres. Obama says [16] it's hard to imagine the Syrian war ending with Assad in power. (Reuters)
Following the US-Russia deal on Syria, pro-Israel groups in Washington suspend lobbying on Syria [17]. (JTA)
PM Netanyahu will visit the White House [18] on September 30. (Xinhua)
Obama reportedly orders the distribution of nonlethal, anti-chemical weapons [19] supplies to Syrian rebels. (Jerusalem Post)
Iran is reportedly increasing its aid to the PFLP [20] to reward its pro-Syria policies. (Al Monitor)
Commentary:
Hussein Ibish and Saliba Sarsar [21] say Israelis and Palestinians need two states, not "blood and magic," to resolve their conflict. (Daily Beast/Open Zion)
David Mikics [22] also critiques Ian Lustick's dismissal of a two-state solution. (Tablet)
Suhail Khalilieh [23] thinks the legacy of the Oslo Accords may be better than many Palestinians feel. (Ma'an)
Abdulrahman al-Rashed [24] says the Oslo Accords need to be carefully re-examined. (Al Arabiya)
Gershon Baskin [25] says both sides are aware that a failure to reach an agreement could unleash another round of terrible violence. (Jerusalem Post)
Oudeh Basharat [26] says Palestinians understand the importance and the limitations of the right of return much better than Israelis think. (Ha'aretz)
Zvi Bar'el [27] thinks Iran may be genuinely seeking a new opening to the West. (Ha'aretz)
Avi Shilon [28] says the US-Russian deal on Syria proves the success of Netanyahu's Iran policy. (Ha'aretz)
Ben Caspit [29] says the Israeli right is increasingly worried Netanyahu might be willing to do a deal with the US involving concessions to the Palestinians in exchange for tougher US policies towards Iran. (Al Monitor)
Ariel Ben Solomon [30] says following the US-Russia deal on Syria, Iran will seek a similar arrangement. (Jerusalem Post)
Mitch Ginsberg [31] looks at Israel's stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. (Times of Israel)
Jonathan Cook [32] says Israel wants to focus on chemical weapons not the war in Syria. (The National)
Rami Khouri [33] thinks a new global order may be being born in the Geneva talks on Syria. (The Daily Star)
Hazem Saghieh [34] says the Syrian regime's pan-Arab rhetoric has been exposed as self-serving bunk. (Al Hayat)
Hussam Itani [35] says Syrian refugees now worry Lebanese more than Palestinians, but attitudes to both undermine the country's "civilized image." (Al Hayat)
Osama Al Sharif [36] says restoring order to Sinai is now Egypt's main security test. (Gulf News)
Anwar Sadat's nephew Esmat al-Sadat [37] says Egypt will keep the peace treaty with Israel even if the country is in "total chaos." (Al Monitor)
Harith Hasan [38] says Saudi Arabia is vying with Iran for influence in Iraq. (Al Monitor)
Jonathan Schanzer [39] looks at the activities of a key Hamas operative in Turkey. (Foreign Policy)
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