Ask a different authority and you get a different answer. An envoy told the Security Council he had certified a breakthrough his own counterparty had emptied days earlier.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Gaza: Israel pushes the strike approval back down to Southern Command, and the Board of Peace's envoy objects publicly. See The War Today.
Lebanon: Aoun calls negotiation Lebanon's only route while Israeli aircraft take apart the Ali al-Taher ridge. See The War Today.
Iran: The chief of naval operations pulls a carrier out of the Pacific to hold the Gulf. See The War Today.
Eisenkot: The poll leader rules out a Palestinian state, and rules against the E1 tender in the same interview. See Inside Israel.
Britain: Burnham prepares a full trade ban on Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria before Labour's conference. See Israel and the World.
Palestine Action: Treasury designates the group a terrorist entity months before Britain's Supreme Court hears its appeal. See Israel and the World.
The UN: Guterres says the special rapporteurs have gone out of control on Israel, and refuses the bias charge. See Israel and the World.
Campus: Departmental events booking a boycott activist accuse Israel of genocide forty times more often than the rest. See Israel and the World.
High Holidays: Washington tells nearly every mission to ask host governments for guards on the walk to shul. See Israel and the World.
Aliyah: More than 2,200 North Americans arrive between June and September, close to 480 of them families. See Israel and the World.
Two of the three theaters in The War Today turn on whose reading of an agreement governs, and in Gaza and on the Ali al-Taher ridge it is whoever is already in the field. The third is the American Navy paying for a decision nobody intends to take before November. Abroad the bloc could not get twenty-seven signatures onto a single statement, and the national laws keep arriving anyway.
Today: the envoy who certified a breakthrough his counterparty had already voided, Washington cutting Palestine Action off the dollar, and a Likud count that keeps moving.
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