Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler

Here's Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler for Thursday, January 24.

1) Election analysis

The New York Times reports on the Making of Israel’s New Power Broker, Yair Lapid:


Mr. Lapid’s campaign hardly challenged Mr. Netanyahu’s policies on
the Iranian nuclear threat, the tumult in the Arab world or the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This was the first election in memory in
which such