Daybreak: Hitch
Plus Russia still futzing at the Security Council, and more in the news
December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens last year.(John Huba/Vanity Fair)
• He died as he lived: believing neither Heaven nor Hell awaited. Hitchens’ mother was a Jew, a fact he did not learn until middle age. [NYT]
• Russia finally got around to submitting and endorsing a resolution on Syria in the U.N. Security Council. You’ll be shocked to hear that it unduly protects the Syrian military, which has spent the last several months killing civilians. [FP Turtle Bay]
• Notorious enemy of Israel Susan Rice, ambassador to the United Nations, said Israel’s treatment at that body is “obsessive, ugly, bad for the United Nations and bad for peace.” [Haaretz]
• The Letter to the Editor protesting Thomas Friedman’s “bought and paid for by the Israel lobby” line comes from the American Jewish Committee. [NYT]
• Hamas turned 24. In celebrating, it denied that it had any intention of giving up armed struggle against Israel. [NYT]
• President Obama will meet with Defense Minister Barak, in town for the Union of Reform Judaism confab, tomorrow morning. Whatever will they talk about? [JTA]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
