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June 12, 2012
7:54 pm

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (photo credit: Kamran Jebreili/AP)

Iranians’ past with US colors how they see nuclear standoff

From the web Historical factors may impact the outlook of Tehran as the current struggle over Iran’s nuclear program plays out, The Washington Post says

June 12, 2012
7:23 pm

Carmel Shama-Cohen, Likud Knesset member who was supposed to participate in meeting with Egyptian parliamentarians (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

DC meet between Knesset members and Muslim Brotherhood canceled

Summit nixed after reports about meeting leaked to media

By Hillary Zaken

June 12, 2012
6:36 pm

Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon (left) speaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset in May (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Vice PM: Better to bomb Iran than to let it get the bomb

Home Front Command warns of hundreds of missiles hitting Tel Aviv area if war breaks out

By Michal Shmulovich

June 12, 2012
6:01 pm

Vladimir Putin (right) welcomes Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow last March (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Putin planning first trip to Israel since 2005

The Russian president — who considers Israel a ‘Russian-speaking country’ — will inaugurate a memorial to the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany

By Raphael Ahren

June 12, 2012
4:35 pm

A Palestinian boy plays with a football in front of banners forming part of a protest tent in solidarity with Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud Sarsak last week. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

FIFA president calls on Israeli soccer officials to help Palestinian detainee

Former Palestinian player Mahmoud Sarsak eased hunger strike Monday after fasting for nearly three months

June 12, 2012
3:30 pm

A photo uploaded to the IDF's official Facebook page to mark Pride Month (photo credit: via Facebook)

Army’s ‘gay soldiers’ photo was staged, is misleading

Male soldiers holding hands in IDF’s viral photograph are not a couple, only one is gay, and they both serve in spokesman’s unit

By Mitch Ginsburg

June 12, 2012
2:54 pm

Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Annan calls on world powers to ‘twist arms’ to end Syrian carnage

UN special envoy working to assemble meeting to discuss rampant violence

June 12, 2012
2:49 pm

Armenians mark the anniversary of the Armenian genocide in 2007 in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Knesset debates recognition of Armenian genocide

Discussion takes place as relations with Turkey are tenser than ever

By Hillary Zaken

June 12, 2012
2:17 pm

Image capture of explosions in Homs on Monday (photo credit: Bambuser/Homslive via AP video)

Syria engulfed in flames; Egypt braces for final run-up to elections

Brother Maher Assad, not President Bashar, is in control of Syria, columnist writes

By Elhanan Miller

June 12, 2012
2:09 pm

The Ivory Coast's consul holds his head as Likud MK Danny Danon speaks about African migrants during a Knesset meeting on Monday (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Deportations dominate as migrant roundup rolls on

Also in the news: Questions on Beit El construction, horror at Holocaust monument desecration and gentle jibes at the PM’s expense

By Ron Friedman

June 12, 2012
1:43 pm

10 killed in Syrian mortar barrage on anti-government protest

Assad forces pound eastern city of Deir el-Zour as bloodshed continues

June 12, 2012
12:37 pm

Illustrative photo of a nuclear attack submarine, the USS Columbus. (photo credit: US Navy via Wikimedia Commons)

Iran begins designing nuclear subs

Navy official claims military ships fall into civilian use category

June 12, 2012
12:26 pm

Israeli and US flags (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Obama signs bill approving investor visas for Israelis

Move allows Israeli citizens to apply for E-2 visa status, granting extended residency to invest in US-based businesses

June 12, 2012
11:18 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi, File)

Ahmadinejad wounded but wily in final year

Iranian president may only have a year left in office, but he still has some political ammo up his sleeve

By Brian Murphy

June 12, 2012
9:26 am

This image shows a wounded child being evacuated in Aleppo, Syria in May-- on a day in which some 50 civilians, including 13 children, were killed. (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syria using children as human shields, says UN

Assad regime also charged with killing and maiming, arbitrary arrest, detention, torture, and sexual violence against kids

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