Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- July 1, 2014

People look at the family home of an alleged abductor after a blast on the top floor in the West Bank City of Hebron, July 1. Troops set off explosions in the family homes of the alleged abductors, blowing open a doorway in one, an army spokeswoman said, while television footage showed the other on fire after the blast. Ammar Awad/Reuters

How Israeli Teen Murders Are Portrayed In Arabic And Hebrew Media -- Max Schindler, CSM

Hebrew and Arabic news outlets differ sharply in their reporting on the three-week kidnapping and Israel’s response. The differences reflect the distrust that exists between the two sides.

While thousands of Israelis attended the joint funeral Tuesday of three kidnapped teenagers whose bodies were found in the West Bank, the Israeli Defense Forces launched airstrikes in the Gaza Strip and clashed with Palestinians in the West Bank, killing a 16-year-old boy.

Not surprisingly, Hebrew and Arabic news outlets differ sharply in their reporting on the three-week kidnapping and Israel’s response. The differences reflect the distrust that exists – and highlight the distance needed before sustained peaceful coexistence can be reached.

For Israelis, this tragic event has been portrayed as the kind of terrorist acts the Israeli public should expect from a Fatah-led Palestinian government that includes Hamas. It has been a rallying cry for a military response.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- July 1, 2014

Israel wants to go after Hamas, but doesn’t want all-out war with Gaza -- Avi Issacharoff, The Times Of Israel

Baghdadi's vision of a new caliphate -- Shafik Mandhai, Al Jazeera

Foreign Minister Zebari: 'Iraq Is Facing a Mortal Threat' -- Interview Conducted By Bernhard Zand, Spiegel Online

What Iraq’s Kurds want, and why it may get complicated -- Adam Taylor, Washington Post

Why Turkey Now Wants Iraq to Break Up -- Marc Champion, Bloomberg

The Syria disconnect in US Iraq policy -- Al-Monitor

US to arm Syrian moderates, but who are they? -- Rebecca Shimoni Stoil, Times of Israel

Iranian nuclear deal still is possible, but time is running out -- John Kerry, Washington Post

How Boko Haram is beating U.S. efforts to choke its financing -- Phil Stewart and Lesley Wroughton, Reuters

Can Putin Get Everying He Wants in Ukraine? -- Josh Cohen, Moscow Times

‘Everyone has right to be different’: Top 10 takeaways from Putin's foreign policy speech -- RT

A familiar Russian playbook -- Fred Hyatt, Washington Post

From Sarajevo to Baghdad: The Lessons of War -- John Cassidy, New Yorker

Are we at war? And why can’t we be sure anymore? -- John Lloyd, Reuters

Another financial meltdown on the horizon? -- Judy Shelton, The Hill