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Daybreak: Iran Swap May Forestall Sanctions

Plus Chomsky turned back, Rahm ‘screwed up,’ and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
May 17, 2010
Noam Chomsky.(Chomsky.info)
Noam Chomsky.(Chomsky.info)

• Iran agreed to send most of its enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for differently graded uranium from international regulators. [LAT]

• Palestinian boycotts of Jewish West Bank businesses are beginning to have real bite. [WP]

• Israeli officials denied left-wing intellectual Noam Chomsky entry to Israel, though they now look to be reconsidering. (“Real democracies aren’t afraid of ridiculous men like Noam Chomsky,” says Jeffrey Goldberg. Ouch!) [JPost]

• Obama chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel told a multisectarian group of rabbis the administration “screwed up the messaging” and wasn’t sufficiently clear about its staunch support for Israel. [JPost/Vos Iz Neias?]

• Pat Buchanan engaged in a bit of Jew-counting on the topic of Supreme Court nominations. (In fairness, so did the Forward’s J.J. Goldberg.) [JTA]

• Someone wrote an article that you’ll be discussing all week. Much, much more at 10. [NYRB]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.