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Daybreak: Trouble Everywhere

Plus, the Jew who made anti-sharia big, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
August 01, 2011
Victims of the firefight outside Ramallah are paraded through the streets this morning.(Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)
Victims of the firefight outside Ramallah are paraded through the streets this morning.(Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)

• For the second day, Syrian forces resumed their brutal crackdown in Hama and other cities (more at 10). [AP/WP]

• A routine incursion to make arrests in a refugee camp outside Ramallah led to a firefight that caused two Palestinian deaths and five IDF injuries. [DPA/Haaretz]

• There was also a brief exchange of fire across the Israel-Lebanon border, though no one was injured. Each side blames the other for starting it. [AP/WP]

• The housing protests in Jerusalem have shaken society, galvanized the left, and depending on your point of view revealed either how well the question of security has been taken care of for Israelis or how poorly it has been swept under the rug. [NYT]

• Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan sat alone at the table—usually he is flanked by generals—following last week’s military resignations, in a symbol of his new authority over his country’s armed forces. [AP/WP]

• The guy who basically started the anti-sharia meme, many years ago, is a Hasidic lawyer named David Yerushalmi. [NYT]

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