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What Matters Most On Friday, September 20, 2013

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Syria provides first details of its chemical weapons

Hague-based watchdog confirms, ‘We have received part of the verification and we expect more’

In this July 29, 2012, photo, Free Syrian Army soldiers gather at the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Aleppo, Syria. Al-Qaida-linked gunmen in northern Syria captured the town near the Turkish border on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, following heavy clashes with mainstream, Western-backed rebels in the area, prompting Turkey to close a nearby crossing, activists and Turkish officials said. (AP Photo/Turkpix, File)

Analysis

With Syrian opposition splintering, no wonder Obama didn’t want to attack Assad

By Avi Issacharoff

Over half of the fighters battling the butcher of Damascus are linked to Islamic extremist groups, and they’re now increasingly at war with the rest of the rebels

Syrian opposition slams al-Qaeda-linked militants

By AP

Kerry: UN report confirms ‘Assad regime behind attack’

Putin: I’m not 100% sure Syria will comply with US-Russia deal

By ToI Staff and AP

Syrian attache Ibrahim Othman, left, talks to the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, prior to the start of the general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna, Austria, September 16, 2013. (Hans Punz/AP)

UN shoots down Arab push to condemn Israeli nuclear policy

Arab League move, blocked by 51-43 votes in Vienna, comes amid pressure on Israel to detail, relinquish its alleged WMDs

Netanyahu: Iran continues to deceive while centrifuges spin

By AP and ToI Staff

Iranian president offers to broker peace in Syria

From the webUS says Obama may be open to meeting with Iran’s Rouhani

New York Times to Israel: Drop dead

Free speech is no defense for publication of an op-ed that amounts to a call for the destruction of the Jewish state

David A. Halperin and Danielle Spiegel Feld

The one-state irresolution

The alternative to two-states would be anything but the ‘noncatastrophic path’ Ian Lustick describes

Siamak Moreh Sedgh (left), greets Sayyed Hassan Khomeini, grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. (photo credit: Website of Iran's Jewish community)

Rouhani’s Jewish MP escort to UN has blasted ‘inhuman’ Israel

By Elhanan Miller

Siamak Moreh Sedgh, set to accompany the Iranian president to New York, repeatedly distanced himself from the Jewish state

A Palestinian inside a smuggling tunnel, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border, February 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Under Egyptian siege, Hamas could try to strike at Israel

By Avi Issacharoff

The tunnels are closing, fuel is running out, people are deeply unhappy. For Gaza’s Islamist rulers, trying to draw Israel into conflict may offer a way out

Yam Levy, 23, from Lapid in central Israel, went missing in Germany on September 10, 2013. Her body was found September 19 on a mountain trail in a town 200 kilometers from Munich. (photo credit: Searching for Yam Levy/Facebook)

German police find body of missing Israeli woman

Yam Levy’s remains found a week after 23-year-old disappeared while on hiking trip

American actor Stephen Dorff plays an Israeli pilot in 'Zaytoun,' out in US theaters September 20. (photo credit: courtesy)

Film review

New Israeli film ‘Zaytoun’ lacks zest

By Jordan Hoffman

Illustrative photo of a car bombing in the Karradah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq (photo credit: AP/Hadi Mizban)

Explosion hits Sunni mosque in Iraq, killing 18

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

More than 4,000 people have been killed since April as a result of sectarian violence, UN says

Sarah Silverman wears a necklace with a cross during a recent interview (via YouTube)

Divine comedy

Sarah Silverman sports cross necklace

Comedienne hasn’t indicated she’s converting to Christianity

A wall of lanterns at Beerotayim, a rustic campsite in Ezuz, one of the villages in Nitzana (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Top five

Time to camp out, minus the tent

By Jessica Steinberg

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Finish-line shot of the 1938 100-meter race at Helsinki Olympic Stadium (photo credit: public domain, via Wikipedia)

Finns apologize for 1938 race result manipulation

By AP

Pope Francis attends a vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Saturday, September 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope criticizes church emphasis on abortion, gays

By Nicole Winfield and Rachel Zoll

J.D. Salinger working on 'Catcher in the Rye' during World War II. (photo credit: AP/The Story Factory, Paul Fitzgerald)

Weinstein Co. to develop J.D. Salinger feature film

By AP

The site where Pavlos Fyssas died early Wednesday, in the suburb of Keratsini near Athens. The graffiti on the door reads 'Revenge.' Thursday, September 19, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Kostas Tsironis)

Greece to crack down on neo-Nazi party after rapper’s murder

By Elena Becatoros

A shocked neighbor observes the murder scene in Tel Aviv, where 52-year-old Eli Gur killed his two children before committing suicide, on Thursday, September 19, 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFather crime

By Joshua Davidovich

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