Leap of Faith: Israel’s National Religious and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Leap of Faith: Israel’s National Religious and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. International Crisis Group, November 21, 2013. PDF. Also here.

Can John Kerry Be a Great Secretary of State? By Aaron David Miller.

John Kerry, Confidence Man. By Aaron David Miller. Foreign Policy, November 18, 2013. Also here.

John Kerry has the skill, toughness, and ego to be a great secretary of state. But will the world let him?

Naftali Bennett vs. Christiane Amanpour on the Definition of “Occupied Territories.” By Joshua Levitt.

Israel’s Economy Minister Bennett Schools CNN’s Amanpour Over Use of Term “Occupied Territories.” By Joshua Levitt. The Algemeiner, November 19, 2013.

Bad Iran deal “will lead to war,” Israel minister warns. By Mick Krever. CNN, November 18, 2013. Video at YouTube.

Suez Canal Targeted as Egypt’s War in Sinai Spreads. By Richard Spencer.

Suez Canal targeted as Egypt’s war in Sinai spreads. By Richard Spencer. The Telegraph, November 17, 2013.

24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians. By Nicholas Wade.

The remains of a boy from palaeolithic Siberia — shown here in a burial reconstruction at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg — revealed that he had European genes. Kelly Graf.

24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians. By Nicholas Wade. New York Times, November 20, 2013.

Americas’ natives have European roots. By Ed Yong. Nature, November 20, 2013.

Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans. By Maanasa Raghavan et al. Nature, published online, November 20, 2013.

Mystery humans spiced up ancients’ sex lives. By Ewen Callaway. Nature, November 19, 2013.

Genome analysis suggests there was interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and an unknown archaic population.