Canada

Moved by Moral Imperative, Canadian Synagogues Sponsor Syrian Refugees - Renee Ghert-Zanes (Times of Israel) Unlike the United States, which has severely restricted the entrance of Syrian civil war refugees (just 1,854 have been absorbed since 2012), Canada has already resettled 23,000 Iraqi refugees and has announced a plan to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this year

Egypt

from MEMRI

#5170 - TV Host Ibrahim Issa Slams Egyptian Media for Adopting Conspiracy Theories: The Paris Bombers Were Not Buddhists 

 Europe

‘At least 50,000 Europeans are fighting in the ranks of IS’ - Rajesh Ahuja (Hindustan Times)

Film Pulled from Cinemas after Paris Attacks - Fiachra Gibbons (AFP)     "Made in France," a film about a wave of jihadist attacks on Paris due out Wednesday, has been pulled from cinemas in France. Doubts were also raised about the release of three other French films which touch on the sensitive subject of terror and jihadist brides.

ISIS

In the battle against IS, where is the Arab coalition? Bruce Riedel (Al-Monitor)

Who's buying their stuff? How Do ISIS Terrorists Finance Their Attacks? - Matthew Levitt (The Hill) 

In the Muslim World, Much Disdain for ISIS - Jacob Poushter (Pew Research Center)  Poll data from 11 countries with significant Muslim populations shows overwhelming opposition to ISIS - except in Pakistan. 

Partners for Peace?

This week, 3 Israelis were killed and at least half a dozen were wounded in terror attacks.

The Islamic State and the Palestinians - Rhetoric vs. Reality - R. Green (MEMRI) Fatah cartoons: Israel behind Paris terror attacks that killed 129 – Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) The PA and Fatah repeatedly compare Israel to ISIS

Russia

Russia Deploys Advanced Anti-Aircraft Missile System in Syria that Can Target Israeli, British Aircraft - Darren Boyle (Daily Mail-UK)

Turkey

Turkey Destroys Kurdistan, World Silent - Uzay Bulut (Gatestone Institute)

Horrified and offering condolences to Paris...

Iran

Iran: Poets Face 99 Lashes - Amir Teheri (Gatestone Institute)

Jordan

Jordan Attacker Buried amid Chants of "Death to America"  (AP) About 3,000 mourners in Rimon, Jordan, chanted "Death to America, Death to Israel" during the funeral Thursday of a Jordanian police captain who killed five people, including two American instructors, in a shooting rampage at a police training center this week.

Partners for Peace?

In case you missed it, this pretty much sums up everything: Palestinian State of Denial - Bret Stephens (Wall Street Journal)

Fatah-run TV promotes a one state solution and terror: Songs promoting violence become Palestinian hits - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

Israeli father, son shot dead in Palestinian terror attack - Judah Ari Gross (Times of Israel)  The first ambulance on the scene, from the Palestinian Red Crescent, slowed, saw that the victims were Jews, and sped away, failing to provide medical assistance.

United States of America

This blurb from Clarion/MSNBC: The three (Democratic) candidates represent three different camps within the Democratic Party: An interventionist view that sees the Islamist threat as ideological (Clinton); a more non-interventionist view that sees the Islamist threat as ideological (Sanders) and a non-interventionist view that blames "blowback" from U.S. policy for sparking the Islamist threat (O'Malley).

‘Proud pinkwasher’ Assi Azar confronted by US campus protesters - Renee Ghert-Zand (Times of Israel) Gay Israeli TV star recounts ‘horrifying experience’ at Baltimore’s Goucher College

U.S. 5th Fleet off Iran Coast Armed with Laser Weapons - Lara Seligman (Defense News)

Iran

Iran's New Palestinian Terror Group: Al-Sabireen  - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute)

Iran starts taking nuclear centrifuges offline - Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Linda Sieg (Reuters)

Khamenei Orders Blocking of Imports from U.S. (Press TV-Iran)

Israel at the UN

Western Wall Rabbi Condemns UNESCO for Declaring Forefathers' Tombs as Islamic Sites - Jeremy Sharon  (Jerusalem Post)

Israel Accepted to UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space - Danielle Ziri (Jerusalem Post)

Lebanon

 Lebanon, Quiet Metaphor of the Middle East on the Brink – Francesca Paci (La Stampa/World Crunch)

Partners for Peace?

Where's the Coverage? Palestinian Leader: All of Israel is 'Occupation' (CAMERA) The latest untold story: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appeared to reject the legitimacy of Israel in any borders in a speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Abbas made clear that he views the Jewish state’s existence as illegitimate. But most media did not report this latest example of a Palestinian leader denying Israel’s right to existence.

Arabs Attack Jews, Jews Shoot Back; Washington Post Covers Arab Fears (CAMERA)

Palestinian football tournament named after murderer who stabbed 2 to death last month -  Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) Terrorist Muhannad Halabi murdered two Israeli civilians and wounded the wife and infant of one of them, in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem in October. Now, the Yasser Arafat Youth Center in Jenin has named a football tournament after the murderer.

Pakistan

A Path to the Sea: China’s Pakistan Plan - Claude Rakisits (World Affairs Journal) ..the jewel in the crown for China is the development of Gwadar, which would give Beijing a firm and reliable long-term beachhead in the Indian Ocean and close to the Persian Gulf, effectively making it a two-ocean power.... This steadily developing bilateral relationship has been intensified by the effective end of major Western, and in particular American, military presence in Afghanistan at the end of 2014.

Is this really common place in Pakistan? 

Christian Kidnapped Before Wedding and Forcibly Converted  (The Clarion Project)

Russia

Islamic State on Recruitment Spree in Russia - Arsen Mollayev and Vladimir Isachenkov (AP-Military Times)
Is this a model for US-Russia relations in the region? 

Russia-Israel Coordination Mechanism on Syria Is Not Working - Yossi Melman (Jerusalem Post) When Prime Minister Netanyahu met with President Putin in Moscow a few weeks ago they set up a coordination mechanism to avoid military clashes between their forces. But in practice this mechanism does not exist. Senior sources say that Russia updates Israel after the fact or provides worthless information. That was the case with the most recent Russian attacks on the Golan Heights in Syria. 

Syria

Month of Russian Air Strikes on Syria Kill Nearly 600 (Reuters) Russian air strikes on Syria have killed 410 fighters from various insurgent groups and 185 civilians since Moscow started its aerial campaign a month ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday.