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Israel and the Middle East News Update Israel and the Middle East News Update Wednesday, April 17 Headlines: • PA Prime Minister: Trump’s Peace Deal Will Be ‘Born Dead’ • Amb. Dermer: Trump Peace Plan Should Give Jews Confidence • Final Election Results: Likud 35, Blue White 35 • Netanyahu Celebrates Victory: I Am Not Afraid of the Media • Nagel: “Currently, there is No Solution to Gaza” • In First, US Publishes Official Map with Golan Heights as Part of Israel • Israel Interrogates US Jewish Activist at Airport Commentary: • Channel 13: “The Main Hurdle: Lieberman Versus the Haredim” − By Raviv Drucker, Israeli journalist and political commentator for Channel 13 News • Ha’aretz: “How the Israeli Left Can Regain Power - Stop Hating the Haredim” − By Benjamin Goldschmidt, a rabbi in New York City. He studied in the Ponevezh (Bnei Brak), Hebron (Jerusalem) and Lakewood (New Jersey) Yeshivas S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace 633 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20004 The Hon. Robert Wexler, President ● Yoni Komorov, Editor ● Aaron Zucker, Associate Editor News Excerpts April 17, 2019 Jerusalem Post PA Prime Minister: Trump’s Peace Deal Will Be ‘Born Dead’ Newly sworn in Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said Tuesday night that US President Donald Trump’s peace plan will be “born dead." Shtayyeh said the American “Deal of the Century,” was declaring a “financial war” on the Palestinian people, during an interview with The Associated Press. "There are no partners in Palestine for Trump. There are no Arab partners for Trump and there are no European partners for Trump," Shtayyeh said in the interview. See also, “PALESTINIANS TURN TO RUSSIA TO BYPASS US PEACE PLAN” (Jerusalem Post) Jerusalem Post Amb. Dermer: Trump Peace Plan Should Give Jews Confidence Ambassador Dermer used his platform at a recent pre-Passover reception at the White House to ensure the crowd that the much-anticipated peace plan will take Israel's interests into consideration. Dermer mentioned Kushner, Greenblatt, Berkowitz and Ambassador Friedman as those who should take the country's interests seriously. “It is a rare thing, a very rare thing, a president like President Trump and an administration like the Trump administration, that doesn’t happen every generation,” Dermer noted. “It may happen once in many, many, many generations. And Israel, the Jewish state, and I believe, the Jewish people are blessed to have a real friendly administration." See also, “SETTLER AND EVANGELICAL LEADERS WARN TRUMP AGAINST ANY LAND FOR PEACE DEAL” (Jpost) Ha’aretz Final Election Results: Likud 35, Blue White 35 A final count of the votes cast in last week's election released Tuesday gave Likud one less seat than in previously published results, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still set to form the next government after 64 lawmakers recommended that he build a coalition. Naftali Bennett's Hayamin Hehadash party came 1,495 votes short of reaching the electoral threshold and will not be represented in the next Knesset. Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that he would only join a government led by Netanyahu if the bill making military service mandatory for ultra- Orthodox men was passed by the Knesset. See also, “Inside Netanyahu’s Base and Why Voters Stuck By Him” (New York Times) Ha’aretz Netanyahu Celebrates Victory: I Am Not Afraid of the Media Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Tuesday to be an inclusive prime minister for both Jews and non-Jews, but said that "some have not internalized the result of the election." In a speech celebrating his election victory, Netanyahu said: "I want all parts of Israeli society, Jews and non- Jews as one, to be an integral part of the tremendous success story known as the State of Israel." Speaking in Jerusalem, Netanyahu referred to commentators in the media who warned against appointing Likud lawmaker Yariv Levin, who promises to overhaul the justice system, to the position of justice minister. "I am not afraid of the media," he said. 2 Israel Hayom Nagel: “Currently, There is No Solution to Gaza” “Gaza is a problem for which I currently see no solution,” said Brig. Gen. (res.) Jacob Nagel, who served as the acting National Security Council director in 2016-2017 and who is still considered today to be one of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants. In an interview that will be published in full by Israel Hayom on Friday, Nagel said: “Our maximum concessions fail to meet their minimum demands and, as such, there’s no one to talk to, there’s nothing to talk about and there isn’t even a place to meet. Should we conquer Gaza? Should we defeat Hamas? I’m in favor, but what will we do afterwards? Who will replace it and fill the vacuum? Action needs to be preceded by thought. The only solution is for a Sadat-like figure to rise to power from among them and to change the thinking. We used to think that Abu Mazen would be that kind [of leader], but he hasn’t delivered the goods, either in Gaza or in Judea and Samaria. They need someone from within.” See also, “A humanitarian crisis in Gaza: extreme poverty, more babies dying, life expectancy low” (Ynet News) Israel Hayom In first, US publishes official map with Golan Heights as part of Israel Amid swirling speculation about the Trump administration’s so-called “deal of the century” for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt updated its official international maps to include for the first time the Golan Heights as part of Israel. “Welcome to the newest addition of our international maps system after @POTUS issued a proclamation recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” Greenblatt tweeted. Ynet News Israel Interrogates US Jewish Activist at Airport The Abraham Initiatives activist Laura Mandel was flying home to San Francisco after attending a conference for the group when security officers at Ben Gurion Airport pulled her aside for questioning about her involvement with the organization, which aims to advance the rights of Israel's Arab citizens. The group is widely considered mainstream, working closely with state agencies and government ministries. Mandel was, by her account, asked about her activities and contacts in Israel, as well as why an American Jew would be interested in Arab-Jewish relations. She said that after authorities questioned and inspected her for nearly two hours, they confiscated her laptop, medication and other personal belongings, to be returned at the end of the flight. The Abraham Initiatives linked Mandel's interrogation to an increasingly hostile political climate, in which "anyone in contact with Arabs, whether citizen or non-citizen, is labelled a potential threat." 3 Channel 13 – April 17, 2019 The Main Hurdle: Lieberman Versus the Haredim By Raviv Drucker • The easiest hurdle that Prime Minister Netanyahu will face when forming the government is the Union of Right Wing Parties. Netanyahu said that the education portfolio should be retained by the Likud, but Bezalel Smotrich said that he had been promised the education and justice portfolios. A likely compromise will be that the education portfolio will be given to the Union of Right Wing Parties and that Netanyahu will hold onto the justice portfolio. • Kulanu is not likely to be an obstacle either. It will probably keep the finance portfolio and perhaps also the economy portfolio—a very nice accomplishment for a party with four MKs, but that might happen be in the framework of a merger with the Likud. Shas will try to leverage its success to fatten the interior portfolio and have it include the Planning Department, which was given in the last government to Kahlon in the Finance Ministry. • Netanyahu’s larger problem is the issue of the military draft bill. Ostensibly, if Lieberman continues to insist that he will refuse to accept even the smallest change, it will be impossible to form a government. UTJ also wants control over work that is carried out on the Sabbath, but that is an easier matter on which a compromise can be reached. • Lieberman is the wild card in the political establishment, and it is impossible to know what he wants. He will have to drop his demand to be given the interior portfolio because Shas is larger. He can have the defense portfolio if he wants it, but the question remains, why did the Yisrael Beiteinu chairperson declare that he would not accept any change in the military draft bill, before the issue of ministerial appointments was finalized? 4 Ha’aretz – April 11, 2019 If Israel's Left Ever Wants to Regain Power, It's Got to Stop Hating the Haredim Haredi Jews are not naturally right-wing or anti-peace. It's the antagonism and ignorance of Israel's left and center towards them that has serially pushed them into Netanyahu's arms By Benjamin Goldschmidt • My grandfather often used to say: "The acceptance of reality is the beginning of wisdom." • Over the next few days, the Israeli left will engage in some serious soul-searching about what went wrong on April 9. Some will blame overheated rhetoric from the right, others will blame their own poor leadership. • But one key factor will be left out and forgotten, just as it was when then-Labor leader Itzhak Herzog lost in 2015. • The left, over the past decades, has handed over a gift to the right: The gift of the Haredi vote. The fact that when the election blocs are counted, the Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) are automatically counted with the right, should be blamed on left-wing policies and priorities, and not on Haredi worldviews.
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