News:
Sec. Kerry [1] says Israel [2] risks becoming [3] an “apartheid” [4] state. [5] (AFP/Ha’aretz/Times of Israel/JTA/The Daily Beast)
Pres. Abbas [6] calls [7] the Holocaust [8] the “most heinous crime” [9] of modern [10] history. [11] (AP/Reuters/New York Times/Washington Post/Ha’aretz/The National)
PM Netanyahu dismisses [12] Abbas’ Holocaust condemnation. (Ha’aretz)
Israel [13] pauses [14] in silence [15] for Holocaust [16] Day. [17] (AP/AFP/Xinhua/Ha’aretz/
Netanyahu compares the Iranian nuclear threat [18] to Nazi menace. [19](Times of Israel/Ynet) The PLO [20] plans to join 60 UN bodies and international agreements. [21] (Ma’an/Ha’aretz) The agreement between Fatah and Hamas might threaten US aid [22] to the PA. (AP) The US is not out of [23] Middle East peace options. (Reuters) Special Envoy Indyk leaves Israel [24] as peace talks falter. [25] (Ha’aretz/Times of Israel) Israeli Finance Minister Lapid says if Hamas meets the Quartet’s conditions, his party is ready to talk to them. [26] (Ha’aretz) Economy Minister Bennett calls on Israel to annex 60 percent of the occupied West Bank. [27] (Times of Israel) Abbas says Palestinians will never recognize Israel as a “Jewish state.” [28] (JTA) Israel is still pushing to join the US visa-waiver program. [29] (AP) Palestinians say Israel will transfer Palestinian tax revenues to the PA [30], but Israel denies this. (Xinhua) Extremist settlers uproot more than 150 olive trees [31] in the occupied West Bank. (Ma’an) Pres. Assad says he will seek re-election in June. [32] (Reuters) Syria misses [33] its self-imposed deadline [34] for destroying chemical arms. [35] (Reuters/New York Times/The National) An Egyptian court [36] sentences 683 supporters [37] of the Muslim Brotherhood to death [38], and commutes 100 [39] of previous death sentences [40]. (AP/Reuters/New York Times/Washington Post/The National) An Egyptian court bans a left wing group [41] that helped topple former Pres. Mubarak. (Reuters) Iraqis [42] vote [43] for a new parliament. [44] (AP/Reuters/Xinhua) Commentary: Amer Al Sabaileh [45] says Jordan has to be prepared for growing chaos on its Palestinian and Syrian borders. (Jordan Times) Orlando Crowcroft [46] says the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal raises multiple questions. (The National) The Daily Star [47] says after the unity deal Fatah and Hamas need to follow up with “serious actions” that will not disappoint their people. (Daily Star) Ha’aretz [48] says Israel’s “discriminatory” planning policy in the occupied West Bank violates its most basic obligations. (Ha’aretz) Gideon Levy [49] says there is no comparison between the Holocaust and the occupation, but the act of resistance is “legitimate” in both cases. (Ha’aretz) Oudeh Basharat [50] says the world has learned the lessons of the Holocaust better than Israel. (Ha’aretz) Benedetta Berti [51] says the Syrian civil war is altering the dynamic relationship between Hezbollah and Israel. (Daily Star) Khairallah Khairallah [52] says the presidential election is Assad’s new front in the Syrian conflict. (Al Arabiya) Amal Mousa [53] says Arab political elites need to carry out an “intellectual revolution.” (Asharq al-Awsat) David Ignatius [54] says “brutal” sectarian war has come again to Iraq. (Washington Post) Diana Moukalled [55] says Iraq’s female parliamentary candidates are still held back by “old paradigms.” (Al Arabiya)
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