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Sundown: Bin Laden’s Focus Was on Palestine

Plus the U.S. Navy increases Gulf presence, and more

by
Marc Tracy
March 16, 2012

Thanks to The Atlantic for quoting The Scroll in its front section. You can read the full blog post here.

• “Bin Laden also criticized subordinates for linking their operations to local grievances rather than the overarching Muslim cause of Palestine. … ‘It was necessary to discuss Palestine first,’ lectured Bin Laden.” [WP]

• President Peres was a strong supporter of the Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor 31 years ago. But regarding it and Iran’s facilities, he says, “It’s like comparing a sausage with a snake—the diameter may be the same but it’s not the same creature.” [Haaretz Diplomania]

• Turkey may set up a “safe zone” for refugees from neighboring Syria. [Reuters/JPost]

• The U.S. Navy just so happens to be beefing up in the waters around Iran. [Wired Danger Room]

• A visual representation of Sandra Fluke’s connection to dirty evil socialist Jews. [JTA Capital J]

• A video news segment on Tablet Magazine’s Don’t Cry For Me, Ahashuerus. [The Jewish Channel]

• Opinions on Israel are like Israeli settlements: We don’t need more of them. [CFR From the Potomac to the Euphrates]

• A Q&A with Friend-of-The-Scroll Gideon Lewis-Kraus on his new book, A Sense of Direction. [NYT T]

• Additional sanitation collection pre-Pesach in Brooklyn. [Ditmas Park Corner]

• Israeli Bauhaus. Not your house, Bauhaus! [NYT]

The Daily Show gets to the bottom of UNESCO’s perfidy and why the United States was quite right to cut off all its funding.

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