Islam and antisemitism

Lana Del Rey has become the latest Western musician to call off a concert in Israel as security fears from the Gaza conflict take a toll on the entertainment industry.
      
The US pop balladeer, whose latest album "Ultraviolence" debuted at number one on the US charts, had been scheduled to play her first concert in Israel at Tel Aviv's Nokia Arena on August 20.
      

An Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo on Aug. 11 for indirect negotiations with Palestinians on a durable truce in Gaza, Egypt and Israeli officials said.
      
The Palestinian delegation meanwhile was already locked in talks with Egyptian intelligence mediators, who will relay their demands to the Israeli negotiators, a Palestinian official said.
     

Israel voices rejections over Qatar’s policy regarding the deadly conflict in Gaza, targeting the country’s hosting of the 2022

Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a fresh 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza Aug. 10, accepting an Egyptian invitation to resume talks to end fighting that has killed more than 2,000 people.

Israel launched more than 20 aerial attacks in Gaza on August 9, killing five Palestinians, and militants fired rockets at Israel as the conflict entered a second month, defying international efforts to negotiate an agreement for an extended ceasefire. 

Deadly hostilities engulfed Gaza on Aug. 8 once again where a 10-year-old boy was killed and Israeli warplanes struck targets in retaliation for dozens of Palestinian cross-border rockets attacks.

Mediators worked against the clock on Aug. 7 to extend a Gaza truce between Israel and the Palestinians as the three-day ceasefire went into its final 24 hours.

The Egyptian brokered cease-fire in Gaza may or may not hold, but this is an opportunity to assess who won what as a result of this carnage. Militarily speaking, “it is already clear that there have been no winners” according to the BBC’s defense correspondent Jonathan Marcus.

The Turks are not rebels. The prime minister can slap one and win an apology in return. But they are certainly proud people – at least social research says so. According to a most recent survey, Turks are proud of their country’s accomplishments, even though there is no empirical evidence to justify this feeling: Proud without a cause.

Turkey has welcomed an Israel-Hamas cease-fire that went into effect on Aug. 5 and is meant to last three days while underlining that the groundwork for the truce was laid with the “constructive conduct of the Palestinian delegation in negotiations being held in Cairo.”