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Daybreak: New Roadmap Still Bumpy

Mitchell’s dreams, HRW’s scandal, and more in the news

by
Hadara Graubart
September 15, 2009

• A group of Israeli and Palestinian activists have created a comprehensive “recipe” for peace; at over 400 pages long, it “highlights how complex and expensive it would be” to broker a deal. [AP]
• U.S. envoy George Mitchell will attempt to “wring” an agreement to freeze settlement growth from Israeli P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu. Somehow. [AP]
• An employee of Human Rights Watch has been suspended after the discovery that he is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia, which is, depending which side one takes in the debate over HRW, “either incontrovertible proof of bias or an irrelevant smear.” [NYT]
• A Rasmussen survey says that 59 percent of Americans would support helping Israel if it is attacked—that’s fewer than would support Canada and more than France. [Ynet]
• A hideous rumor that Jews harvest organs from Albanian children is sweeping the anti-Semitic blogosphere; Jerusalem Post commenters blame Sweden for reviving the blood libel. [JPost]

Hadara Graubart was formerly a writer and editor for Tablet Magazine.