BAHRAIN

Bahraini Columnist: Gulf States Should Unite Against U.S. (MEMRI) the Saudi and Bahraini presses recently published a number of articles condemning  US foreign policy.

EGYPT

Egypt's Sisi Asks for U.S. Help in Fighting Terrorism - Stephen Adler and Richard Mably (Reuters)

INDIA

Israel Anticipates Warm Ties with New Indian Prime Minister(Times of Israel) 

See also Islamic World Wary of Closer Indo-Israeli Ties (Peninsula-Qatar)

IRAN

Dutch Seize Heroin Worth $23M in Iran Raisin Container(AFP-Daily Star-Lebanon)

Iranians Held in Huge Tanzania Heroin Haul (AFP-Dawn-Pakistan)

German Customs Find Heroin Hidden in Iranian Carpets(AFP-Times of Oman)

Russia May Build Eight Nuclear Reactors for Iran(Reuters)

LEBANON

As per Honest Reporting, Hezbollah Uses Israel As Excuse to Bully Critical Journalist see:

Of thuggish journalists and their masters – Hisham Melham (Al Arabiya) and Hanin Ghaddar's I do not have two faces (Now-Lebanon)

JORDAN

Islamic Extremism on Rise in Jordan - Jean Aziz (Al-Monitor)

PARTNERS for PEACE?

Netanyahu: There is nobody to negotiate with in Ramallah (Times of Israel)

The Nakba - Perpetuating a Lie - Moshe Arens (Ha'aretz)

PA exhibit for Pope presents Palestinians as Jesus – Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

SYRIA

Assad Regime Withholding Sarin Precursor Chemicals, Protecting 12 Chemical Weapons Production Facilities - Michael Weiss (NOW-Lebanon)

Syrian Al-Qaeda Reach Foothills of Israeli Golan - Suleiman al-Khalidi (Reuters)

Increasing Russian, Iranian Involvement Helps Assad in Syria - Ron Ben-Yishai (Ynet News)

UNITED NATIONS

UN Decries Rising Violence Against Palestinian Women(Ma'an News)

UNITED STATES

U.S. Vetoed Israeli Missile Shield for Poland - Ami Ettinger (Israel Defense) Two American companies are competing for the Polish deal. 

Jewish Archive from Baghdad to Stay in U.S. - For Now- Raf Sanchez (Telegraph-UK)

TED: Spreading Anti-Israel Propaganda  (CAMERA)

Iran Guards Suspected of Keeping Secret Funds in Asia (Kyodo News-Japan)

Revolutionary Guards Commander Admits Iran Operates Beyond Its Borders (MEMRI)

Palestinian Reconciliation and the Rising Power of Hamas and Islamic Jihad: An Iranian Windfall - Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi (Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) By repeatedly defying the United States, and being prepared to integrate Islamic Jihad as well into the PLO, and possibly also other Islamic terror organizations, Abbas is signaling that he is no longer in the American camp. Instead he is adopting positions of the rejectionist camp and seeking closer ties with Iran, ally of Hamas and patron of Islamic Jihad.

Palestinian Magical Thinking - Jonathan Spyer (PJ Media) Palestinian nationalism in both its Fatah and Hamas variants rejects the possibility of accepting the permanence of Jewish statehood in any part of the area west of the Jordan River. For the Palestinian Authority, the nine-month period of negotiations came as an unwelcome interruption to a very different strategy to which it will now return: attempting to isolate and delegitimize Israel at international forums to induce it to make concessions in return for nothing.

Despite Economist  Claim, the 'Fanatical Settlement' of Kochav Ya'ir is Neither 'Fanatical' Nor a 'Settlement' (CIF Watch) While the UK media often employ euphemisms to avoid passing 'value judgments' on Palestinian terror groups, there are typically no such restraints in news stories and commentaries about Israeli 'settlers'. A good illustration of this dynamic can be found in a May 3rd article in The Economist  titled 'Making of a martyr'.

Stones Thrown at Christianity’s Living Stones (CAMERA) Just how serious is the Palestinian Authority in protecting Christians in and around Bethlehem? That’s the question Palestinians – and pilgrims to the city – need to be asking in light of the ugly and violent confrontation that took place at St. George’s Church in Khadar, just outside of Beit Jala on May 6, 2014. In addition to stone throwing, there was a stabbing.

Report: Pakistani Intelligence Planned Terror Attacks on U.S. and Israeli Consulates in India (Press Trust of India)

Egypt

Poppies Replace Tourists in Egypt's Sinai Desert - Gert Van Langendonck (Christian Science Monitor)

Europe

New European Funding for Legal Warfare Against Israel (NGO Monitor) The "Secretariat," a joint NGO funding initiative of Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, has announced a four-year budget of $17.6 million to support political and legal warfare against Israel.

Why the Middle East Matters - Tony Blair (Spectator-UK)

In Italy, al-Aqsa Mosque imam urges destruction of Israel - Yifa Yaakov (The Times of Israel) Cleric calls on Arab armies, including those of Egypt and Jordan, to ‘liberate’ cities such as Jaffa and Haifa  

Iran

Go to www.Memritv.org to see: #4249 - Tehran Friday Sermon: The Iranian President Should Punch Obama in the Mouth when He Talks Nonsense

Libya

Libya: Jihadi Terror Leaders' Safest Haven - Anna Mahjar-Barducci (Gatestone Institute)

Morocco

Moroccan group slams king’s adviser as ‘Zionist collaborator’  - JTA (Times of Israel) Anti-Israel organization names and shames list of people who symbolize Israel’s ‘infiltration'

Partners for Peace?

With unity deal, a catch-22 for Abbas The Palestinian leader is damned if he embraces Hamas and damned if he fails to position himself as leader of all Palestinians via elections  - Elhanan Miller (The Times of Israel)  State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Israel could hardly be expected “to sit down and negotiate with a group that denies its right to exist.”

Yahya Ayyash Brigades Claims New Rocket Attacks Against Israel - David Barnett (Long War Journal)

Syria

Syrian Rebel Leader Speaks of Peace With Israel - (CAMERA) Since the outbreak of the "Arab Spring", examples of influential regional figures offering a balanced and flexible perspective of the Israeli-Arab conflict have emerged. These more moderate voices in the region contrast with an opposing trend among Western academics, particularly in humanities disciplines, who rigidly adhere to a Marxist-derived ideological fantasy that is detached from both historical reality and the existing situation in the Middle East.

Ukraine

Ukraine Separatists holding American-Israeli Journalist – (Mashable and Honest Reporting) Speaking to the Russian outlet Gazeta.ru, Vyacheslav Ponomarev said, "We won't release Ostrovsky any time soon. We need hostages — small change to trade with Kiev."

United Nations

Iran, Other Repressive Regimes, Sweep UN Human Rights Posts (UN Watch) Other human rights abusers elected to the influential panel include Azerbaijan, China, Cuba, slave-holding Mauritania, Russia, and Sudan, whose leader, President Omar al-Bashir, is wanted by the ICC for genocide.

Unitied States of America

U.S. Treasury Approves Sale of Aircraft Parts to Tehran (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)

Contradictory Stories from Christ at the Checkpoint (CAMERA)
Islam Critic: Brandeis Turned Honor into a Shaming - Phylis Chesler (Newsmax)

Jews from Arab Countries Respond to "Zionism Unsettled" (JIMENA) Recently, the Israel-Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) published a congregational study guide titled "Zionism Unsettled".  On behalf of the 850,000 Middle Eastern & North African Jews exiled from their home countries, JIMENA would like to express to your our concern and media response to this issue.

Israel Police Challenge U.S. "Terror" Findings (AFP)