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Daybreak: Palestinians, Together Not Yet

Plus the audacity of ‘The Audacity of Hope,’ and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
June 02, 2011
The famed Mavi Marmara, docked in Istanbul over the weekend.(Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images)
The famed Mavi Marmara, docked in Istanbul over the weekend.(Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images)

• Palestinian reconciliation seems to have occurred more in word than deed. [Reuters]

• Ditto the opening of the Rafah crossing from Egypt to Gaza. [NYT]

• One ship in the flotilla set to sail for Gaza this month will have 34 Americans, including novelist Alice Walker and a child of Holocaust survivors. The ship’s name? “The Audacity of Hope.” [NYT]

• Though the sabotaged Egyptian pipeline has been repaired, natural gas continues not to flow from it to Israel, as well as Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. [NYT]

• The French foreign minister presented a peace plan in Ramallah based on the 1967 lines in an effort to get talks started up. [DPA/Haaretz]

• The United States will boycott a September U.N. conference against racism—it’s being referred to as “Durban III” after the 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa, at which Zionism was notoriously equated with racism. [Ben Smith]

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