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FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011

Israel bristles at Obama salvo

Middle East speech sparks furor as U.S. president urges pathway to peace based on 1967 borders
MITCH POTTER
WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTONPresident

Barack Obama devoted a hefty 5,721 words Thursday to repositioning America on the winning side of an emerging

new Middle East. The Arab world shrugged. Israel bristled and soon, too, did much of Washington, which looked upon his mention of 1967 borders as though he had gone ahead and

stepped on a political third rail. By nightfall, the White House was scrambling, wondering how a speech that other- Barack Obama wise tied Obama to Israels security needs could have backfired so badly.

Mitt Romney, a leading Republican presidential contender in 2012, won ovations when he accused the president of having thrown our ally Israel under the bus. Top officials at the Simon Wiesenthal Center invoked Holocaust imagery, calling Obamas proposal a return to Auschwitz borders.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a prelude to the earful he is likely to give Obama in a face-to-face meeting Friday at the White House, said any future Palestine based upon the borders of 1967 could leave Israel indefensible.
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Struggling AT NATURES MERCY IN SLAVE LAKE Residents learn fate of their homes as Alberta releases maps showing buildings destroyed in fire, A8 NHL sets sights back on Canada
A Thrasher move to Winnipeg could signal more teams in future
DAMIEN COX
SPORTS COLUMNIST

Perhaps in retrospect Sidney Crosbys golden goal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver was a sign from the hockey heavens. Get ready, Canada, for a new period of prosperity in professional hockey. A new golden era for this country in the NHL. It is an era, expected to officially begin with the NHL deciding to move a team from the U.S. to Winnipeg as soon as this week, that has arrived with stunning speed. Fifteen years ago in the wake of the move of NHL teams in Winnipeg and Quebec City to the United States there were concerns that Canada might be left with only two NHL clubs. Or perhaps one the wealthy Maple Leafs. A decade ago, nobody in the province of Quebec wanted to buy the fabled Montreal Canadiens, who couldnt sell out their games. Eight years ago the Ottawa Senators were under bankruptcy protection.
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TOWN OF SLAVE LAKE

Destroyed homes No damage
AMY DEMPSEY/TORONTO STAR

Eleven members of the Osadchuk family are staying in a trailer after they were displaced from their homes by fire. Grandmother Vi Osadchuk, right, daughter Tanya Osadchuck, in red, and granddaughter Gracie King have a house to return to. But little Jolie Osadchuk-McKechnie, in pink, does not. Her parents house in a neighbouring town is believed damaged.
200m Grandmothers house

NHL denies Thrasher deal done, S1

Commandos to paddle their own canoes

Military says fleet on order for JTF2 squad is for fitness, not stealth operations
ALLAN WOODS
OTTAWA BUREAU

EX-IMF CHIEF GETS BAIL

Dominique Strauss-Kahn will await trial on sex assault charges in the confines of a New York apartment leased by his wife Anne Sinclair, seen with daughter Camille. The former IMF boss was granted $1 million bail Thursday. Meanwhile, jockeying has begun for the top job at the IMF. Stories, A14, B1.

OTTAWAWhat does a world-class, lightning-fast commando force need after a decade of hunting the Taliban in the dust and dirt of Afghanistan? Canoes, apparently. Trained to dodge enemy fire, slither down ropes from hovering helicopters and scale

treacherous mountain peaks, Canadas special operations forces are already accustomed to the more daring aspects of the great outdoors. But the latest addition to their equipment sheds at CFB Petawawa, two hours northwest of Ottawa, will be an odd fit with the Griffon choppers, machine-gun-bearing jeeps and high-powered weapons and explosives.
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MANNERS VERDICT
After four years and two trials a jury has acquitted two men of murdering 15-year-old Jordan Manners, leaving Torontos only fatal school shooting unsolved. Story, GT1

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