Quick Middle East roundup
Just an update, for those of you who haven't been watching this. A few days ago, Hamas attacked an Israeli position, killing two soldiers and capturing another one. They took him to somewhere in Gaza. Israel massed armored units at the border and warned them to return him at once.
( Politics in action!Collapse )This isn't a big, world-shaking event; it's a regional crisis, with the potential for having real regional effects, but it's not something that you absolutely need to be following unless you care about Middle Eastern politics. In fact, I'm just posting this because I know a lot of people
don't follow that, and may just want a quick summary of the week's news.
Edit: Here's a link to
New York Times coverage of the various things going on. Not all the details, but a fair roundup of events with minimal editorializing.
