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Israel and the Middle East News Update Israel and the Middle East News Update Wednesday, May 30 Headlines: ​ ● Israel Believes Gaza Fighting Is Over for Now ● Galant: Israel Must Consider Risks of Retaking Gaza ● US Calls UNSC Meeting to Condemn Gaza Rockets ● Kuwait: UN Must Set up Protection Mission for Palestinians ● Israel Intercepts Protest Boat Trying to Break Gaza Blockade ● Israel Destroys Attack Tunnel From Gaza ● Southern Kibbutz Residents Deal With Latest Violence ● Rights Group: Israeli Banks Help with Settlement Building Commentary: ● Jerusalem Post: “Peace Starts in Jerusalem’s Holy Basin” − By Ofer Zalzberg, International Crisis Group; and Yonathan Mizrach, Emek Shaveh. ● Ha’aretz: “The Reasons Islamic Jihad Is Violating Hamas' Rules” − By Zvi Bar’el, Analyst, Ha’aretz 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 ​ May 30, 2018 Ha’aretz Israel Believes Gaza Fighting Is Over for Now The Israeli army said Wednesday it believes fighting in Gaza has come to an end and said it will respect the calm if Hamas ends the rocket fire towards Israel. Hamas agreed to accept a unilateral ceasefire after talks with Egypt, despite the fact the Israel was not party to the talks. The Israeli military struck dozens of militant sites in Gaza overnight as rocket fire continued toward southern Israeli communities into early Wednesday morning. The attacks continued throughout Tuesday, triggering dozens of rocket sirens in southern Israel and wounding five Israelis, one of them suffering moderate injuries. Ynet Galant: Israel Must Consider Risks of Retaking Gaza Housing Minister and Security Cabinet member Yoav Galant responded Wednesday to recent statements by Cabinet members on the possibility of retaking the Gaza Strip, saying "When you want to overthrow Hamas, you should ask yourself who would replace it." Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday blamed Iran for the escalation, saying, “Israel is in a focused, consistent campaign against the head of the Iranian octopus, which operates its tentacles in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza to harm Israel.” Jerusalem Post US Calls UNSC Meeting to Condemn Gaza Rockets The US called on the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency meeting Wednesday in New York to condemn the Gaza rocket attacks. “The Security Council should be outraged and respond to this latest bout of violence directed at innocent Israeli civilians, and the Palestinian leadership needs to be held accountable for what they’re allowing to happen in Gaza,” Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said. On Tuesday, a number of UNSC members and western states condemned Hamas for its violence against Israel. AFP Kuwait: UN Must Set up Protection Mission for Palestinians Kuwait on Tuesday circulated a watered-down draft UNSC resolution on setting up an international protection mission for the Palestinians in a bid to win European support in a vote expected this week, diplomats said. The council could hold a vote, possibly on Thursday, on the draft resolution, which is expected to face a US veto. Kuwait is hoping to highlight Washington’s isolation on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. 2 Times of Israel Israel Intercepts Protest Boat Trying to Break Gaza Blockade The Israeli navy stopped and seized control of a boat carrying demonstrators as it tried to leave the Gaza fishing zone on Tuesday in defiance of Israel’s blockade of the coastal enclave. The navy said after it had been searched, the boat would be towed to port in the Israeli city of Ashdod. Organizers had said the vessel was carrying wounded Gazans seeking treatment, and the IDF said medics were waiting to treat the sick or injured on board if necessary. Ha’aretz Israel Destroys Attack Tunnel From Gaza The Israeli military attacked and destroyed an attack tunnel that penetrated half a mile into Israeli territory on Tuesday. The tunnel, which was used for smuggling weapons, was dug from inside the Gaza Strip into Egypt and then continued into Israel. The IDF had intended to destroy the tunnel next week, but took advantage of escalating tensions in southern Israel to attack it on Tuesday. It was the tenth attack tunnel from Gaza the IDF has destroyed in the past six months. Ha’aretz Southern Kibbutz Residents Deal With Latest Violence Though Israelis near the Gaza border are trying to maintain their daily routine, they were hard pressed to hide the degree to which their lives have been disrupted on Tuesday. Kibbutz spokeswoman Meirav Cohen said most children had arrived as usual to the fortified preschool, but the situation was anything but normal as evidenced by the masses of policemen and soldiers mulling about. A municipal official from one Gaza-area community said that the incident had shaken residents of the region. Even in communities where no alarm sounded, people had been calling the local Hosen Center, which provides psychological, emotional and social work support to residents who have been hurt in attacks or need preventive treatment. Associated Press Rights Group: Israeli Banks Help with Settlement Building Israeli banks are helping build West Bank settlements in violation of international law by providing financial services to home buyers and local councils, Human Rights Watch said in a new report published Tuesday. The report said that bank activities in or with settlements have helped encourage settlement growth and “contribute to rights abuses” against Palestinians. It added that Israeli banks, and international banks doing business with them, may be engaging in pillage, by acquiring ownership interests in housing projects on seized land. Because of an Israeli law limiting the amount of money developers can collect from buyers in advance, banks often become direct partners in settlement projects, Human Rights Watch says. 3 Jerusalem Post – May 30, 2018 Peace Starts in Jerusalem’s Holy Basin By Ofer Zalzberg, International Crisis Group; and Yonathan Mizrach, Emek Shaveh ● The US embassy’s move to Jerusalem on May 14 following US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize the disputed city as Israel’s capital might have triggered a new round of uproar, but it also provides an opportunity to implement measures we believe can reduce tension over the holy places. ● In recent years, the Holy Basin – which for our purposes comprises the Old City and the surrounding areas such as Silwan, Mount Zion and Mount of Olives, most of which lie in east Jerusalem territory that Palestinians claim as their future capital – has seen excavations of unprecedented scope, followed by massive investment to turn antiquity sites into tourist attractions and develop new sites of Jewish worship. These excavations are recreating the historic city, blotting out non-Jewish parts of its history and highlighting Jewish ones, especially the First and Second Temple periods. These include the Western Wall tunnels and the tunnels running underneath the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, and plans for new means of transportation, such as the recently announced cable car from West Jerusalem to the Old City. ● The evident emphasis of these archaeological-tourism ventures is compounded by an absence of investment in developing sites embodying the city’s Christian or Muslim histories or resolving transportation challenges faced by Christian and Muslim pilgrims and local residents. The deprecatory approach to the religious, cultural or national Other is not practiced by Israel alone. For example, some Palestinian tour guides at the Holy Esplanade (Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif) deny that the Second Temple ever existed, despite an academic consensus on this matter. In Jerusalem lie the holiest sites to Jews, Christians and Muslims, and the ancient remains are central to the identity of both national movements. Past diplomatic efforts sought to postpone the status of Jerusalem and freeze the existing situation in the historic basin during negotiations. But one cannot really freeze development in such a charged area. It is possible however to initiate a dialogue between the parties in a bid to achieve consent over strategies and practices aimed at protecting the needs of the different major stakeholders in this historic zone. ● Several steps can be taken. One would be to secure an agreement on several key principles if and when negotiations resume, to preserve Jerusalem as a city that respects the religious rituals of the three monotheistic faiths. The parties could commit to present archaeological remains from the various historic periods embodied at the site, accompanied by explanations about the importance of each period to the city’s history. This is a seemingly self-evident demand, but the approach is practically absent in Jerusalem’s present-day historic city. The idea of presenting a multi-layered, culturally and religiously diverse story today frightens both sides. Perhaps the concern is that recognizing the other side’s story constitutes a first step toward recognizing their political rights. But formulating a relationship based on mutual respect 4 and the ability to handle the multiplicity of views, realities and needs which characterizes Jerusalem is vital for any successful Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. If both sides recognize the need for a two-state solution, then such an approach would be consistent. ● To this end, any outside mediation – most likely to be led by the US – should ensure that the actions of each party do not contravene the red lines of the other and that all parties can present the new approach as a victory to their respective publics. We propose setting up a team of Israeli, Palestinian and international (Jordanian, Egyptian, Vatican, etc.) professionals, who would together work toward fostering a multicultural and tolerant historic core to the city. US mediation will have to help the sides identify a middle path toward resolving a tension potentially inherent in this approach between purely professional interests and each stakeholder’s political agenda.
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