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Canada and Israel — best friends forever?

Why is Ottawa so extraordinarily supportive of the Jewish state? Has the Harper administration gone too far, and cost itself influence in the Arab world? And would a change of government see an altered stance?

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (R) in Ottawa, Canada. March 02, 2012. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/ Flash90)

Army denies it prefers ‘devil’ Assad to ‘demon’ rebels

London Times report that Israel wants Syria dictator to remain in power is ‘unfounded,’ IDF spokesman says

By Asher Zeiger

Druze residents of the Golan Heights hold aloft Syrian flags and portraits of Syria's President Bashar Assad, during a rally in the Druze village of Majdal Shams, to mark the Syrian Independance Day, April 17, 2012 (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Syria training advanced missiles on Tel Aviv — report

Damascus has put Tishreen rockets on standby to retaliate if Israeli planes hit again, Sunday Times claims

By Times of Israel staff

A shot from a video purporting to show a Tishreen missile being test fired. (Screenshot/YouTube)

In video, kidnapped Egyptian officers beg Morsi for their release

Blindfolded soldier compares captive men’s plight to that of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, asks Cairo to release top terrorist

By AP and Times of Israel staff

Jordan’s PM: Parliament shouldn’t meddle in treaties

Criticizing MPs’ anti-Israel vote, Abdullah Ensour says legislators’ role is to advise, not decide

By Elhanan Miller

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, November 28, 2011 (photo credit: AP)

France in talks with US, Israel to buy drones

From the web Reuters: French defense minister says Paris negotiating purchase of American, Israeli spy drones to build up modern fleet

An Israeli drone (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Congress set to tighten economic noose on Iran

Two widely supported bills would expand sanctions beyond financial and energy sectors, and urge support for Israel in any confrontation with Tehran

By Haviv Rettig Gur

US Congress (Photo credit: CC BY-SA Dougtone, Flickr)

‘EU to hold off on settlement product labeling’

Plan to label products from beyond the Green Line pushed off at American request to allow for progress on peace, report says

By Gavriel Fiske

The Ahava factory in the West Bank settlement of Mitzpeh Shalem (photo credit: Flash90)

Arabic Media Review

Sun, May 19, 3:10 PM

Hamas security forces stand guard at the closed gate of the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on May 17, 2013 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Sleepless in Sinai

Arab daily criticizes Egypt for shutting the Rafah crossing, punishing Palestinians for a crime they didn’t commit

By Elhanan Miller

Hebrew Media Review

Sun, May 19, 11:50 AM

Haifa Port, 2009. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Plans and counter-plans

Budget cuts to yeshivas canceled; soldiers might operate seaports in case of strike; and, as always, the Syrian question

By Aaron Kalman

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May 20, 2013
1:55 am

Police on the Brooklyn Bridge. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Edward M Johnson, Flickr)

Palestinian smuggler linked to 1994 Brooklyn terror attack

Muaffaq Askar, arrested last week as part of a cigarette smuggling ring, supplied terrorist with guns used to attack yeshiva students

By JTA and AP

May 20, 2013
1:30 am

A screen capture of the video showing the Muhammad al-Dura incident.

Father of al-Dura disputes Israeli claim, says open to probe of death

Jamal al-Dura rejects report that his son was not shot by Israeli forces and not killed in 2000 incident

By Joshua Davidovich and Mitch Ginsburg

May 20, 2013
12:29 am

From left, Moshe Ya'alon, Yair Lapid, and Tzipi Livni at a Cabinet meeting last week. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Lapid calls for interim peace deal with Palestinians

Senior coalition partner says US should push three-year plan to realize final border agreement for Palestinian state

By Josef Federman

May 19, 2013
11:26 pm

Syrian rebels taking cover during fighting against government forces. (photo credit: AP/Local Council of Barzeh)

Hezbollah commander killed in assault on Syria border town

Fadi al-Jazzar believed to be former prisoner released by Israel in 2004 as part of swap with Hezbollah for soldier’s bodies

By Lazar Berman

May 19, 2013
10:50 pm

'Google recognizes Palestine as a state, and what about Funland?' (photo credit: screen shot via Facebook)

Google’s ‘Palestine’ sends Likud pol viral

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon says name change ‘strengthens violence and terror,’ wonders whether Internet giant will soon also come up with a ‘State of Funland’

By Raphael Ahren

May 19, 2013
8:04 pm

A Free Syrian Army soldier after firing a recoilless rifle during clashes with Syrian government forces in the village of Mukhtariya in the suburbs of Homs, Syria. (photo credit: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights via AP video)

EU decision to lift Syrian oil sanctions boosts jihadist groups

From the web The Guardian: Jabhat al-Nusra and other Islamist groups consolidate power in eastern Syria as scramble for control of wells accelerates

May 19, 2013
7:42 pm

Syrian rebels taking cover during fighting against government forces. (photo credit: AP/Local Council of Barzeh)

Assad, Hezbollah forces launch massive assault on key rebel town

Opposition sources report at least 30 dead as planes, tanks and Nasrallah’s troops join forces in long-anticipated offensive on Qusair

By Lazar Berman

May 19, 2013
6:20 pm

The Al-Dura shooting (photo credit: image capture from YouTube)

Second Intifada icon Muhammad al-Dura didn’t die in 2000 shooting, Israel claims

Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all

By Mitch Ginsburg

May 19, 2013
5:40 pm

Egypt closes Israeli crossing in protest of abductions

Police block Awja commercial crossing following kidnap of fellow officers last week

By AP and Times of Israel staff

May 19, 2013
4:33 pm

The pillar is of a type associated with monumental construction during the time of the First Temple in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Binyamin Tropper/Kfar Etzion Field School)

Despite secrecy, interest builds around mysterious First Temple find outside Bethlehem

A 2,800-year-old pillar discovered by a tour guide under a Palestinian orchard points to major construction dating from Biblical times. So why isn’t it being excavated?

By Matti Friedman

May 19, 2013
3:24 pm

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Sochi, Russia, on Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)

UN chief hopes for Syria conference in early June

Ban Ki-moon hopes to bring Assad regime and opposition to the negotiating table

May 19, 2013
2:34 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and his close ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, flash victory signs after registering Mashaei's candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 11, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s Guard warns against post-election turmoil

Message that Tehran riots could spread across the country in mid-June published in several newspapers

May 19, 2013
2:28 pm

Shelling in Syria kills at least 16, activists say

Rebel-held Qusair, near the Lebanon border, is the target of a new government offensive

By Jamal Halaby

May 19, 2013
1:46 pm

On Syria, what should Israel do?

WATCH, and weigh in With the situation in Syria deteriorating, Israel has just woken up to a new “hasbara” or PR nightmare. Support the rebels and encourage Al Qaeda backed groups or back the regime and support genocide.

By Neil Lazarus

May 19, 2013
12:54 pm

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem two years ago (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Russia knows exactly what the fuss is about

By insistently arming Assad, and with increasingly sophisticated air defenses, a disingenuous Moscow risks heating the northern border to boiling point

By David Horovitz

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