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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Cheat Sheet - Why Petraeus Risked It All

The Cheat Sheet

Today: Israel vs. Gaza: A Tale of Two Battlefields , Hamas Gets Some International Support , 50 Killed in Egypt Bus Crash
Cheat Sheet: Morning

November 17, 2012
DOWNFALL

He subdued Iraq, steered the course for exit in Afghanistan, and is one of the most decorated generals of his generation. So why was Gen. David Petraeus no match for his biographer? By Daniel Klaidman and Gail Sheehy in Newsweek.

ISRAEL VS. GAZA

Life in Gaza has ground to a halt as electricity fails, bombs fall and residents cower. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv's cafes still buzz with activity, even as the sirens wail. The Daily Beast’s Dan Ephron reports.

Upheaval

As the ongoing Gaza Strip conflict heated up this week, neighboring countries began to take sides—and some on Friday threw their support to Hamas. Especially important for Gaza occupiers is the backing of Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey, all U.S. allies with democratically-elected governments. Not only does this represent a shift in the Middle East overall, where many leaders were once wary of Hamas' hardline Islamist ideology, but the group's new friends will help to give it a stronger reputation internationally. What that reputation will be has yet to be determined.

Tragedy

In a city south of Cairo on Saturday, a train plowed into a school bus, killing 50 people—most of them children. The bus was crossing a railroad track when a train hit it at full speed, breaking it in half. The crossing was open and there was no indication of the oncoming train. The country's transport minister and the head of railway authorities have both resigned in the wake of the tragedy.

ON THE HILL

The general everyone's talking about spent almost four hours on Capitol Hill today testifying before Congress about the 9/11 Benghazi attacks. According to ABC News, Petraeus defended U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who has been the target of Republican attacks over her own previous testimony. One GOP senator said that Petraeus "clarified some of the issues that were still a little cloudy." One thing he didn't clarify: his relationship with biographer Paula Broadwell, whom he did not mention. 


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