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NBC anchor Brian Williams had his Tel Aviv correspondent Martin Fletcher in the studio for a briefing. Fletcher is in the United States on a book tour for his reporter's memoir Breaking News. He contrasted Israel with Palestinian Gaza. "The Israeli economy has been flourishing" while "the Gaza Strip is under sanctions now, very tough sanctions, by Israel and there is suffering down there." The 120 Palestinians killed by the Israel Defense Force in Gaza was "the worst loss of life in one day in 25 years." Israel, Fletcher predicted, will "certainly" blame Hamas for the shooting at a Jerusalem yeshiva that left eight dead even though "Hamas did not claim responsibility for this attack."
The day's other report on the Middle East came from ABC's Terry McCarthy who profiled the King's Academy prep school founded by King Abdullah of Jordan to replicate his own boarding school education as a boy at Deerfield Academy in New England. CBS' Mark Phillips showed us the same school just over a year ago.
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