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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 9, 2014

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Illustrative photo of Palestinian protesters waving Hamas and Islamic Jihad flags as they take part in a demonstration is support of Gaza in the West Bank (AFP/HAZEM BADER).

Liveblog August 9, Day 33 of Operation Protective Edge (Closed)

Conflict surges on, with Israel refusing further talks until Hamas attacks stop

By Ilan Ben Zion and Itamar Sharon

Seven Palestinians killed in IDF strikes Saturday, including senior Hamas official, as dozens of rockets fired into Israel

Obama: Netanyahu too strong, Abbas too weak for peace

Livni presents plan to end conflict with Hamas, restart talks with PA

AnalysisHamas plays a dangerous poker game in Cairo

By AFP

Still from Al-Jazeera's footage, broadcast on Wednesday, August 6, showing Hamas gunmen, weapons and tunnels in place ahead of Hamas's breach of the truce on August 8 (MEMRI screenshot)

Gaza: The road not yet taken

By Irwin Cotler

A ceasefire plan that would address Hamas’s ‘genocidal anti-Semitism’ and lay the groundwork for lasting peace

Gerald M. Steinberg

Can western mediators make peace in Gaza?

No, not if they keep working from the misguided premise that ‘they’ are just like ‘us’

A law that adds injury to insult

When an offensive comment was posted on her Facebook page, Likud MK Miri Regev called the police

Can we Jews EVER do enough to be accepted by you?

Israeli soldiers rest in southern Israel along the border with Gaza (background), August 06, 2014. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

How Israel was seduced by deceptive calm in Hamas’s Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff

The Netanyahu government preferred to ignore the tunneling and rocket-production as it sought ‘quiet above all’. Is it about to repeat the mistake?

Illustrative photo of Palestinian protesters waving Hamas and Islamic Jihad flags as they take part in a demonstration is support of Gaza in the West Bank (AFP/HAZEM BADER).

One Palestinian dead, dozens wounded in West Bank clashes

By AFP

Hundreds protests against IDF operation in Gaza

An F/A-18E Super Hornet takes off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)on August 1, 2014 in the Gulf (Photo credit: AFP/US NAVY/Joshua Card)

US drops new aid to Iraqis fleeing militant surge

By Bram Janssen and Diaa Hadid

Islamic State extremists capture hundreds of Yazidi women, while thousands of other civilians flee in fear

Iraqi Kurdish protesters wave flags of their autonomous Kurdistan region during a demonstration to claim for its independence on July 3, 2014, outside the Kurdistan parliament building in Arbil, in northern Iraq. (photo credit: AFP/Safin Hamed)

Kurdish pleas for weapons may finally be heard

By Ken Dilanian

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood chant slogans during a demonstration in Dalga Village, in upper Egypt, Aug. 30, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Roger Anis/El Shorouk Newspaper)

Egypt court dissolves Muslim Brotherhood party

By AP

Decision comes after advisory panel notes that members of the Islamic group have been accused of violence

Passengers on the Jewish boat at the Amsterdam gay pride parade, Aug. 2, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Things get political on Amsterdam’s Jewish gay love boat

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Surrounded by a police escort, parade participants fly a rainbow flag emblazoned with a Star of David as spectators wave Israeli flags in solidarity

The streets of Amsterdam, Holland (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Dutch hotelier cancels Israeli family’s reservation over Gaza

By JTA

Bed & breakfast owner apologizes for ‘moment of insanity,’ offers to host family for free

Working on breast cancer research at the Ben-Porath laboratory, Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem. (Keren Freeman/Flash90)

Study ties new gene to major breast cancer risk

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Presence of PALB2 mutations make deadly disease nine times more likely, researchers find

A Tel Aviv couple takes in an expectant mother and her husband from the north during the Second Lebanon War in 'Haven.' (courtesy)

Tel Avivians take in refugees in too-relevant film, ‘Haven’

By Laya Maheshwari

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Israeli producer Menahem Golan, right, and movie director Jean-Luc Godard, left, speak to the press in Cannes, France, after the screening of Godard's out of competition "King Lear," produced by Golan's Cannon group, May 17, 1987 (Photo credit: Pierre Gleizes/AP, File)

Veteran Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan dies at 85

Sergey, 24, doing a backflip on a skyscraper in Ashdod (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)

High StakesParkour mishap will make you shudder

Joan Rivers speaks to TMZ about Israel's Gaza operation, July 2014. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Joan Rivers in new Gaza diatribe

Lana Del Rey (Courtesy Lana Del Rey - Israel Facebook page)

UltraviolenceLana Del Rey nixes Tel Aviv show

Illustrative photo of a police officer holding a pair of handcuffs. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Iran policeman faces jail for killing blogger

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