Daily News Issue Date:
November 10, 2014
News:
News:
A Palestinian [1]man stabs [2] and critically [3] wounds [4] an Israeli [5] soldier in Tel Aviv [6]. (Reuters/New York Times/Ma’an/PNN/JTA/Ha’aretz)
PM Netanyahu [7] vows a harsh [8] response to the ongoing wave [9] of Arab violence. (AP/PNN/Jerusalem Post)
A Palestinian citizen [10] of Israel is shot [11] by Israeli police, causing protests [12]. (New York Times/AFP/Times of Israel)
An Israeli [13] ministerial committee approves a bill [14] that would apply all laws passed by the Knesset to the settlements [15]. (Ma’an/PNN/Ha’aretz)
Palestinian official Shaath says the Knesset bill is dangerous and is aimed to eventually annexing territories. (Ma’an)
FM Lieberman says Palestinian citizens of Israel living in northern Israel should not [16]remain citizens if there is an agreement for a Palestinian state. (Times of Israel)
Israel will reportedly confiscate 3176 acres [17] around the occupied West Bank village of Beit Iksa for military purposes. (Times of Israel)
Pres. Abbas says he would he like to move the shrine [18]of the late Pres. Arafat toJerusalem [19]. (Ma’an/Ynet)
Fatah cancels [20] the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the death [21] of Arafat in Gaza. (Ma’an/JTA)
Israel will allow Palestinian fishermen [22] in Gaza to export fish to the occupied West Bank. (Ma’an)
A Jewish American billionaire Sheldon Adelson [23] calls Palestinians an “invented people.” [24](Times of Israel/Jerusalem Post)
A new recording from 1983 between Pres. Reagan [25] and PM Begin [26] exposes the fraught relationship between the two leaders during the First Lebanon War. (Times of Israel/Ha’aretz)
Palestine’s Sheikh Khalifa mosque [27] opens for worship. (The National)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Right says five nuclear engineers [28] were killed in the outskirts of Damascus. (Reuters)
Pres. Assad says he will consider [29] the UN ceasefire proposal for Aleppo. (AP)
Iraqi officials say ISIS [30] leader al-Baghdadi [31] was wounded [32] in an airstrike [33] in the Anbar province. (AP/New York Times/Washington Post/The National)
The New York Times [34] looks at the obstacles that limit targets and pace of strikes on ISIS. (New York Times)
Pres. Obama will deploy [35] an additional 1500 [36] American troops to Iraq. (New York Times/Washington Post)
Pres. Masoum [37] will visit Saudi Arabia, raising hopes of a tentative thaw in relations between the Arab neighbors. (Reuters)
Jordan imposes new rules [38] on Muslim clerics to counter ISIS ideology. (Washington Post)
Egypt’s Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis [39] allegedly pledges [40] allegiance to ISIS [41] in an audio cli [42]p. (Reuters/AP/New York Times/The National)
Egypt’s ultimatum for civil society expires. [43] (AP)
King Abdullah [44] of Jordan meets with EU Foreign Policy Chief Mogherini in Amman. (Jordan Times)
The US [45], EU [46] and Iran [47] hold an unscheduled second day of nuclear talks in Oman. (Reuters/AP/Washington Post)
The El Feel oil field in Libya has closed down [48] due to a power outage. (Reuters)
Commentary:
Oudeh Basharat [49] says when the victim is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, an entire country “devotedly protects the murderers.” (Ha’aretz)
Ha’aretz [50] says the recent death of a Palestinian citizen of Israel in Kafr Kana is the direct result of the latest rules of engagement issued by Public Security Minister Aharonovitch. (Ha’aretz)
Pres. Rivlin [51] says its time for all Israelis to denounce violence and seek new avenues for respectful dialogue. (Ynet)
Rogel Alpher [52] says what’s happening in occupied East Jerusalem is not an intifada, but a civil war. (Ha’aretz)
Mattia Toaldo and Hugh Lovatti [53] ask if EU recognition of the State of Palestine could be more than symbolic. (Al-Monitor)
David Horovitz [54] says many Israelis are fed up with Netanyahu and are looking to Lieberman. (Times of Israel)
Nathan Guttman [55] says Adelson and Saban are trying to “out-hawk” each other on pro-Israel issues. (Jewish Daily Forward)
Abdul Rahman Al Rashed [56] says extremism is most dangerous to the community that creates and hosts it. (Asharq al-Awsat)
Sharif Nashashibi [57] asks if Egypt’s Sinai offensive misdiagnoses the actual problem. (The National)
H.A. Hellyer [58] says its the end of an era for Egypt’s NGO’s. (Al Arabiya)
Luay Al Khateeb and Ahmed Mehdi [59] say the Kurds should not leave Iraq. (New York Times)
Jackson Diehl [60] says Obama hopes “direct diplomacy” with Iran will finally work. (Washington Post)
Trita Parsi [61] says Obama’s letter to Ayatollah Khamenei is “pragmatic politics.” (Foreign Policy)
The National [62] says an Iranian nuclear deal is in everybody’s interest. (The National)
Hussein Ibish [63] looks at arguments both for and against a Nidaa Tounes-Ennahda coalition in Tunisia. (The National)
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