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The Middle East Quartet [2] will meet later this month [3] to discuss next steps [4] to address the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. (New York Times/AFP/Times of Israel)
The UN calls on Israel [5] to unlock taxes owed to the PA. (AFP)
The Arab League [6] says it will support a new Palestinian [7] UNSC resolution. (AFP/The National)
FM Wallstrom [8] says Israel has irritated [9] close allies by over-reacting to Sweden’s [10]recognition of the State of Palestine. (Reuters/Ha’aretz/Ynet)
200 Palestinians from Gaza [11] are allowed to travel to Jerusalem to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. (Ma’an)
Hundreds of Palestinians pray in front of the Rafah crossing [12] in Gaza to protest its prolonged closure. (Ma’an)
PM Netanyahu rules out a unity government [13] with Opposition leaders Herzog and Livni. (Jerusalem Post)
The Pentagon says it will deploy more than 400 troops [14] to help train Syrian rebels to fight ISIS. (Reuters)
UN aid workers have started delivering food [15] to tens of thousands of people trapped in a besieged district in Homs. (Reuters)
Two Italian aid workers [16] held hostage in Syria [17] have been freed. (AP/New York Times)
Saudi Arabia postpones [18] today’s scheduled public flogging of activist [19] and blogger Raif Badawi on medical grounds. (Reuters/The National)
Libyan factions agree [20] to continue UN-backed negotiations in Geneva next week. (Reuters)
Sec. Kerry and FM Zarif [21] will meet in Paris [22] for a second face-to-face get together this week. (Reuters/AP)
Commentary:
Ha’aretz [23] says Arab parties in Israel must unite. (Ha’aretz)
Raphael Ahren [24] says FM Lieberman has joined the camp of those warning that Israeli annexation of the West Bank will create an “apartheid state.” (Times of Israel)
Ben Caspit [25] says Herzog and Economy Minister Bennett are battling over dueling visions of Zionism. (Al-Monitor)
Harris Engelmann [26] asks if Moshe Kahlon is Israel’s “new Lapid.” (The Forward)
Gregg Carlstrom [27] says Netanyahu's effort to lure French Jews to Israel is playing politics with fear. (Foreign Policy)
Anshel Pfeffer [28]says Europe needs to wage a campaign to hold onto its Jewish population for its own sake. (Ha’aretz)
Hussein Ibish [29] says both Muslim-majority and European states lack moral clarity on free speech. (The Forward)
Kenan Malik [30] says the arrest of a French comedian for a comment on Charlie Hebdo exposes a dangerous double standard. (New York Times)
The New York Times [31] says “widespread censorship and intrusive surveillance” will only undermine personal freedoms and could even make Europe less secure. (New York Times)
Mohammed Fahad al-Harthi [32] asks if the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices are really the French 9/11. (Al Arabiya)
David Ignatius [33] says the Internet alone is not to blame for the surge of terrorism. (Washington Post)
Amir Taheri [34] says democracy is the answer to terrorism. (Asharq al-Awsat)
The New York Times [35] says Iran must end the unjust imprisonment of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian. (New York Times)
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