1. ISLAMIC JIHAD LEADER KILLED IN ISRAELI ARREST RAID… Israeli troops surrounded a house in Nablus where wanted Islamic Jihad leader Ahmad Radad was hiding early Tuesday morning. According to the Israeli account, after residents were warned to leave shooting broke out. Radad was killed in the ensuing firefight. Two Israeli soldiers were injured in the gun battle, one moderately and one lightly. Military sources revealed on Tuesday that over the weekend four men from the Israeli post-1967 community of Maor near Mt. Hebron, wearing masks, were pelting Palestinian children on their way home from school with stones until stopped by soldiers. The children were said to be between six and eight years of age.
2. ISRAELI U.S. AMBASSADOR: GIVE PALESTINIANS HUMANITARIAN AID… Israel’s Ambassador to the United States told Reuters in an interview on Monday that humanitarian aid should be allowed to reach the Palestinians as long as it isn’t channeled through a Hamas-led government. The comments by Ambassador Danny Ayalon come as the international community struggles to find a way to continue funding the Palestinians and preventing a total collapse of the Palestinian Authority, but not allowing the money to be used by Hamas to fund terror operations. The international community is demanding that Hamas announce an end to violence, disarm its terrorist forces and recognize Israel’s right to exist.
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3. IRANIAN NEWSPAPER EDITOR: HOLD HOLOCAUST CARTOON CONTEST TO SEE WHO SUPPORTS FREEDOM OF PRESS… While the vitriol over cartoons deemed to be offensive by Muslims continues to smolder, an Iranian newspaper editor has come up with his own response: a contest for Holocaust cartoons. Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri, a newspaper published by the city of Tehran, said he wants to see how far newspapers claiming the right to publish the now-infamous cartoons on grounds of freedom of expression are willing to go when the subject is the Holocaust. He said, “The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let’s see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons.”
4. EGYPTIANS TELL HAMAS TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL, RENOUNCE VIOLENCE… Egyptian officials told visiting members of Hamas to renounce violence and recognize Israel. Top Hamas officials were in Cairo to discuss issues surrounding its victory in the Palestinian legislative election including its plans to form a government. The talks were held under the aegis of ‘Umar Suleiman, the head of Egyptian intelligence and one of Egypt’s most powerful officials. He reportedly told his guests, including Khalid Mash’al and Mousa Abu Marzouq, senior Hamas officials living in exile in Damascus, that Egypt favors a coalition that includes Fatah as a way for the new government not to be completely rejected by Israel and the international community. In response, a Hamas official said it would agree not to abrogate agreements with Israel that are already in place, but will not recognize Israel, either. One possibility being discussed by Hamas is appointing an independent Palestinian acceptable to Israel and the West to head the government.