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Daybreak: Fellow Panelists Challenge Goldstone

Plus Lebanese rage, Lieberman to be indicted, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
April 14, 2011
Lebanese secularists march over the weekend.(Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images))
Lebanese secularists march over the weekend.(Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images))

• The other three members of the panel that produced the Goldstone Report strongly repudiated chairman Richard Goldstone’s mea culpa. [NYT]

• Lebanon’s more complicated, diffuse upheaval. [NYT]

• Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is taking notification that he will likely be indicted in strive. If it happens, it won’t happen for several months. [NYT]

• David Ignatius looks at three important leaders in the new Egypt: Amr Moussa; Mohammed ElBaradei; and mega-businessman Naguib Sawiris, a Coptic Christian. [WP]

• Acting on a U.S. extradition request, Israelis arrested an official from the scandal-tainted Iowa Agriprocessors kosher meat plant. [AP/NYT]

• For the first time, two non-Jews entered into a civil union in Israel. [JTA]

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