• Two Iranian ships passed through the Suez Canal en route to Syria this morning, and Israel is, so far, not freaking out. [NYT]
• Muammar Qaddafi may be the latest, if strangest, Arab strongman to lose his decades-long hold on power. [NYT]
• A new U.S. intelligence reports finds that Iran’s nuclear weapons program has recovered from Stuxnet and the like, but that there is actually considerable debate about whether to continue trying to build a bomb. [WP]
• Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren tried to balance between optimism and wariness in a Times op-ed about Egypt. [NYT]
• Bet I can blow your mind. Ready? Bahrain’s ambassador to the United States: Jewish. [JPost]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.