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Daybreak: Obama Can’t Do Everything

Plus Tutu, Sendak, and more in the news
By Hadara Graubart | 9:36 AM Aug 28, 2009

• President Obama knows he should visit Israel as his support there dwindles, but right now he’s swamped with health care reform. [Ynet]
• Desmond Tutu tells Haaretz that Palestinians are paying the “penance” for the Holocaust, and compares Israel to South Africa, which only achieved “security when the human rights of all were recognized and ...

Daybreak: Settlements Deal Close

Plus a nuclear Iran, Tel Aviv threatened, and more in the news
By Marc Tracy | 8:59 AM Jul 27, 2009

• Following a meeting yesterday between Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and U.S. Special Envoy George Mitchell, a deal in which West Bank settlement construction would be frozen except for several advanced projects is reportedly close. [Haaretz]
• Meanwhile, Barak and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, after a meeting this morning, expressed disagreement over ...