Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Action and Impact in and around the World

Interim Report January–October 2018

Report on Jerusalem Center Projects, Social Media Campaigns, Analyses, Reports, and Conferences – in Israel and Internationally

Amb. Dore Gold, President

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Table of Contents

4 | Jerusalem: Asserting Israel’s Case for its Ancient Jewish Birthright 5 | Recent Studies and Publications 6 | Exposing Iran’s Nuclear Program, Ballistic Missiles, Internal Unrest, and Military Expansion in the Middle East 7 | The and the Peace Process 10 | Special Events 14 | Academic Publications 15 | Expanding the Pro‑Israel Case in Social Media Jerusalem: On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s Asserting Israel’s unification – and in response to UN resolutions that sought Case for its Ancient to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem – Amb. Gold Jewish Birthright created an original presentation of 3,000 years of Jewish history in Jerusalem, with the assistance of Israel’s finest, state-of-the-art, multi-media technology. This exciting sensory experience brings sacred sites and ancient documents to life while telling the story of the Jewish people’s unbreakable connection to Israel and Jerusalem through the ages.

In the presentation, Gold offered compelling visuals of archaeological treasures, rare documents, vintage photos and clandestine film footage that bring the historical record to life, offering irrefutable evidence of the Jewish people’s persistent ties to Visuals of archaelogical treasures, rare Jerusalem. documents, and vintage photos offer Amb. Gold has presented the multi-media display irrefutable evidence of the Jewish people’s at the United States Senate in Washington DC, to persistent ties to Jerusalem. the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America in New York and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in London, the UK’s oldest think tank, and to an audience of dignitaries at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

4 Recent Studies Iran’s Response to the and Publications Cancellation of the Nuclear Agreement Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall

A Jerusalem Solution: From Defeating Denormalization

In the last few years, Palestinians who have met face-to-face with Israelis and Palestinian scholars cooperating in joint academic and educational projects have encountered threats, intimidation, and outright violence at the hands of BDS and denormalization One Sovereignty, Multiple Local Authorities activists. My personal experience with Palestinian efforts to denormalize relations with Israelis demonstrates how this movement is ideologically bankrupted, bellicose, antagonistic, and even anti-Semitic in nature. Professor Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi (including for the Arab Neighborhoods) Founding Director, American Studies Institute, Al-Quds University.

To encourage Palestinians to work in the industrial zones, Israeli labor laws governing employment, minimum wage, and national insurance were applied equally and transportation to the sites was arranged for Palestinian residents of local towns and villages. At present, more than 20,000 Palestinians have regular jobs in these zones. This model, which avoided giving veto power to the PA, is the most successful. Nadav Shragai Col. (res.) Dr. Danny Tirza Former head of the Strategic Planning Unit of the Judea and Samaria Division, IDF Central Command

I value the harmonious group dynamic and positive atmosphere at SodaStream. Our

managers treat us with respect, and this in turn makes us feel that the factory is our Peace to S on a n ew Path SP ective second home. We also receive an Israeli salary, which is more than three times the salary I would be making in Ramallah. We have access to social benefits including paid vacation, annual leave, sick leave, pension plans, a fund for continuing education, and medical insurance. Nabil Basherat Manager, SodaStream

The Palestinian leadership would be well advised to follow the lead of its citizenry and Defeating cooperate closely with its Israeli neighbor. This would result in hundreds of thousands

of Palestinians working for good wages and benefits while learning from and adapting tinian an D iS raeli Per to the Start-up Nation culture that Israeli entrepreneurs have attempted to share with Denormalization Palestinian colleagues in an effort to forge a better common future. Khaled Abu Toameh ShareD PaleStinian anD iSraeli Senior Distinguished Fellow, Gatestone Institute PerSPectiveS on a new Path to Peace

Professor Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi Professor Ali Qleibo | Khaled Abu Toameh Nabil Basherat | Nadia Aloush | Rami Levy Daniel Birnbaum | Dan Diker Did Israel Use Disproportionate Force” Col. (res.) Dr. Danny Tirza | Pinhas Inbari 13 Tel Hai St., Jerusalem, 92107 Israel

Email: [email protected] | Tel: 972-2-561-9281 | Fax: 972-2-561-9112 S Share D Pale Denormalization Defeating to Protect the Gaza Fence? Jerusalem Center Websites Editor: Dan Diker www.jcpa.org (English) | www.jcpa.org.il (Hebrew) www.jcpa-lecape.org (French) | www.jer-zentrum.org (German) The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization. Amb. Alan Baker Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Exposing the Methods and Strategies behind the BDS Campaign against Israel

From Defeating Denormalization

In the last few years, Palestinians who have met face-to-face with Israelis and Palestinian scholars cooperating in joint academic and educational projects have encountered threats, intimidation, and outright violence at the hands of BDS and denormalization activists. My personal experience with Palestinian efforts to denormalize relations “ Definitely, most definitely we oppose a Jewish Omar Barghouti, with Israelis demonstrates how this movement is ideologically bankrupted, bellicose, state in any part of Palestine.” BDS leader and activist antagonistic, and even anti-Semitic in nature. Professor Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi Founding Director, American Studies Institute, Al-Quds University.

To encourage Palestinians to work in the industrial zones, Israeli labor laws governing employment, minimum wage, and national insurance were applied equally and “ OK fine. So BDS does mean the end of the Ahmed Moor, transportation to the sites was arranged for Palestinian residents of local towns and Jewish state... BDS is not another step on the Palestinian student leader villages. At present, more than 20,000 Palestinians have regular jobs in these zones. This way to the final showdown; BDS is the final and BDS activist model, which avoided giving veto power to the PA, is the most successful. Col. (res.) Dr. Danny Tirza showdown.” Former head of the Strategic Planning Unit of the Judea and Samaria Division, IDF Central Command

I value the harmonious group dynamic and positive atmosphere at SodaStream. Our

managers treat us with respect, and this in turn makes us feel that the factory is our Peace to S on a n ew Path SP ective second home. We also receive an Israeli salary, which is more than three times the salary “ The real aim of BDS is to bring down As’ad AbuKhalid, I would be making in Ramallah. We have access to social benefits including paid vacation, the State of Israel.” Professor of Political Science, annual leave, sick leave, pension plans, a fund for continuing education, and medical BDS activist, insurance. California State University Nabil Basherat Manager, SodaStream

The Palestinian leadership would be well advised to follow the lead of its citizenry and Defeating cooperate closely with its Israeli neighbor. This would result in hundreds of thousands bDs

of Palestinians working for good wages and benefits while learning from and adapting tinian an D iS raeli Per to the Start-up Nation culture that Israeli entrepreneurs have attempted to share with Denormalization Palestinian colleagues in an effort to forge a better common future. Khaled Abu Toameh ShareD PaleStinian anD iSraeli unmaskeD Senior Distinguished Fellow, Gatestone Institute PerSPectiveS on a new Path to Peace Radical Roots, ExtREmist Ends Professor Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi

Professor Ali Qleibo | Khaled Abu Toameh “ The Jerusalem Center is a leader in the effort to Alan Dershowitz, Former Felix Frankfurter Nabil Basherat | Nadia Aloush | Rami Levy expose BDS for what it is: anti-peace, anti-Israel and, by singling out only Israel for BDS, anti-Jewish. Professor of Law, Daniel Birnbaum | Dan Diker It deserves our wholehearted support.” Harvard Law School Dan Diker Col. (res.) Dr. Danny Tirza | Pinhas Inbari 13 Tel Hai St., Jerusalem, 92107 Israel Foreword by

Email: [email protected] | Tel: 972-2-561-9281 | Fax: 972-2-561-9112 S Share D Pale Denormalization Defeating Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser Jerusalem Center Websites Editor: Dan Diker www.jcpa.org (English) | www.jcpa.org.il (Hebrew) www.jcpa-lecape.org (French) | www.jer-zentrum.org (German)

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5 Exposing Iran’s Nuclear Program, The Jerusalem Center continues to focus research and Ballistic Missiles, resources on exposing malevolent and hostile Iranian activity in the Middle East. We have increased our staff Internal Unrest, of Iran specialists and Persian speakers/translators. The and Military Center’s analyses this year have increasingly focused Expansion on internal Iranian affairs; Iranian subversive activity in in the Middle East Bahrain, Yemen, Iraq, Gaza, and ; Iran’s nuclear program; and American sanctions on Iran.

We recently established on the Center’s website the “Iran Desk” for staff articles and analyses. Some of the recent analyses:

“Jerusalem Day” in Iran Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall

Iran’s Response to Trump’s Meeting with Kim Jong-Un Jerusalem Center - Iran Desk,

Iran’s Soccer Team Faces Sanctions on its Way to the World Cup Jerusalem Center - Iran Desk,

Russia Constrains Iran Amb. Dore Gold

The Results of the Iraqi Elections? A Slap in the Face to Iran Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah,

Iranian Demonstrators Killed in Violent Clashes in Kazerun Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall

Israel’s Attacks on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in Syria Spur Internal Disputes in Iran Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall

Iran’s Response to the Cancellation of the Nuclear Agreement Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall

6 The Palestinians and the Peace The Jerusalem Center’s team of diplomatic, security, and research experts has decades of experience reporting and Process analyzing the peace process and its players. Arabic- and Persian-speaking experts maintain close touch with the Arab/Muslim world, following developments in Tehran, Baghdad, Riyadh, Ramallah, North Africa, Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Damascus, and Gaza. Their analyses appear in English and Hebrew on the Jerusalem Center website, and reactions from the Arab world mean that the material is read on the other side of Israel’s border. The team members are interviewed by Arab media frequently.

The Jerusalem Center experts are also engaged in “Track 2” discussions with Palestinians and officials from the Arab World including reporters, former officials, and civil society leaders.

Our 2017 breakthrough study on Palestinian payments to terrorists was instrumental in driving new legislation in the Israeli Knesset and the United States Congress.

More recent studies include: • The Many Ways Palestinians Violate • Who is Responsible for the Harsh Humanitarian Situation in Gaza? • Mahmoud Abbas Refuses to Ease Sanctions on Gaza Strip • Faces Serious Government Crisis • Hamas Will Go for Broke in Gaza • Did Israel Use “Disproportionate Force” to Protect the Gaza Fence? • Hamas’ Warfare Tactics in the “Great Return March” • Psychological Asymmetry: Understanding the Gaza “Return” Demonstrations

7 The Jerusalem Center’s Experts Meet the Broadcast Media

Dore Gold on Fox News Insider May 16, 2018

I think slowly but surely, with the deal with North Korea, with getting out of the bad Iran deal, the world will be a safer place.

Dore Gold on BBC May 9, 2018

President Trump has done exactly what was needed to be done, and he zeroed in on three central flaws with the Iran agreement that will have to be fixed in any future agreement.

Yossi Kuperwasser on i24 News January 14, 2018

These payments have nothing to do with whether these families are weak or not. The only reason they get the money is because they carry out terror attacks against Israelis.

8 Yossi Kuperwasser on Channel 2

October 7, 2018

Dore Gold on Channel 13 September 2, 2018

Yossi Kuperwasser on Channel 20 July 16 2018

9 Special Events

Conference on Defeating Denormalization: Shared Palestinian and Israeli Perspectives on a New Path to Peace June 17, 2018

The round table dialogue accompanied the publication of Defeating Denormalization. The meeting explored how Israeli-Palestinian economic cooperation can overcome the propaganda of BDS and Palestinian denormalization. Economic reconciliation, cooperation, and wasatia – Arabic for the “middle way” – are keys to economic, political, and social harmony between Palestinians and Israelis, they concluded. The dialogue was live streamed on Facebook. The dialogue was part of the Center’s project to counter political warfare against Israel.

European-Israeli Dialogue March 19, 2018

Due to the strains in European-Israeli relations, the Jerusalem Center launched an initiative to find solutions to the differences and improve this relationship. On March 19, 2018, a special conference took place with several senior officials from various European countries on the subject of relations with Israel, attitudes toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, financing terror, conflict with Iran with regard to the nuclear deal, and the BDS issue. The aim of the conference, titled “Israel-Europe Relations: A New Paradigm,” was to establish a new Israeli-European framework to face new challenges and to develop new solutions to strengthen relations between Europe and Israel.

Chinese Scholars Seminar June 4, 2018

A comprehensive briefing by Yossi Kuperwasser and Lenny Ben David was presented on June 4, 2018, to eight senior Chinese academics, deans, and diplomats on Middle East events. They discussed and conducted a dialogue on American and Russian policy in the region, the Israel-Palestinian peace talks, Iranian nuclear issues, and China’s role in the region.

10 Special Events

Appeasement: 80 Years since the Munich Agreement September 5, 2018

Amb. Dore Gold: The Munich Agreement, which most of you know, was signed on September 30, 1938, and I think the significance of it was that it really formed the political thinking of a whole generation afterwards. The Munich Agreement and the doctrine of appeasement affected a whole generation of policymakers. They are a multi-dimensional story, and it’s something we should study and learn even though it was a long time ago.

Trilateral Meeting of Indian-Israeli-American Think Tanks October 2-4, 2018

Participants included leaders and research fellows from the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, the Vivekananda International Foundation, and the Jerusalem Center. The Indian participants included a former deputy chief of staff of the Indian army and deputy national security council advisor.

The participants discussed Middle East and South Asian security issues, the U.S. withdrawal from the Iranian JCPOA deal, cross-continental migration, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

11 New Books by our Experts

The Spider Web: The Roots of BDS and Jerusalem Center Publications on BDS the Campaign to Delegitimize Israel Ehud Rosen BDS Unmasked: Radical Roots, Extremist Ends By Ehud Rosen Dan Diker | The Spider Web: The Roots of BDS and the Campaign to Delegitimize Israel A roadmap to the malevolent multi-national, global Ehud Rosen Students for Justice in Palestine Unmasked networks and their interlocking connections Dan Diker with Jamie Berk The Spider Web The Roots of BDS and the Campaign to Delegitimize Israel

Mapping the Organizational A roadmap to the malevolent, multi-national, Sources of the Global global networks and their interlocking connections Delegitimization Campaign against Israel in the UK Ehud Rosen

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs The Caliph & the Ayatollah By Fiamma Nirenstein

The Iranian project to create an atomic bomb and the parallel fight by Sunni ISIS to dominate Christians, Jews, and infidel Muslims appears to many as political fiction. This new book by Fiamma Nirenstein sheds light on the siege that Shiite and Sunni extremist ideologies have placed upon our world, and the reasons why they will not give up unless we defeat them.

The Rise and Fall of Bashir Gemayel By Jacques Neriah

Published in Hebrew by Steimatzky, 2018

12 Between Rabin and Arafat: A Political Diary, 1993-1994 – Currently in translation to English By Jacques Neriah

The book analyzes Yitzhak Rabin’s decision-making during the Oslo process and details the effort the prime minister made to achieve peace with Jordan, as well as the dilemmas in the face of U.S. pressure to reach an agreement with Syria.

Barak Seener Why Sanctions Make Investment in the Islamic Commercial Risks Republic of Iran a High-Risk Proposition

The Trump Administration’s withdrawal on May 8, | 2018, from the uncertainty accompanying the fate of Commercial Risks Entering Iranian the Market Entering the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) By Barak M. Seener will cost the Iranian economy a heavy price. It has the Iranian Market created wariness on the part of foreign investors, especially European investors, and prevented the Iranian market from significantly reaping the fruits of the deal. Investing in Iran was not an attractive option even when the Prior to the withdrawal from the JCPOA, there were numerous preparations by foreign businesses and investors to enter the Iranian market, but JCPOA was in place, but as President Trump moves forward only a marginal number of deals and investments materialized. Following the American withdrawal, major European companies began to move their against Iran, the U.S. secondary sanctions are going to make business away from Iran and cut their trade with it.

Even though the European Union is determined to business with Iran unreasonable, and further exacerbate stick to the deal, it will be very difficult for the EU to convince companies to prefer the Iranian market over the American market, once secondary sanctions Iran’s economic difficulties. This may lead to greater are resumed. Russian and Chinese companies may Why Sanctions Make Investment try to fill the gap but may encounter difficulties. frustration and dissatisfaction among ordinary Iranians, Although India has declared that it will abide only in the Islamic Republic of Iran by UN sanctions, it appears that Indian companies a High‑Risk Proposition will hesitate to ignore the American threat. cause more domestic unrest, and constrict Iran’s ability to Barak Seener spread its influence in the Middle East.

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

The Status of Jerusalem in Most member states of the still refuse to recognize Jerusalem as the united capital of Israel, even though more than 50 International and Israeli Law years have passed since the city’s unification in 1967. The Status of The United Nations and its member states do not recognize the legality of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem for political and religious reasons. They drape their opposition in claims of Israel’s disregard for By Shmuel Berkowitz international law. They claim that Israel’s capture of Jerusalem during a war, when it was taken from Jordan by force, is a violation of the Jerusalem international law forbidding annexation of foreign territory. For that reason they insist that Israel’s rule over Jerusalem is illegal. This monograph, however, shows that Israel has valid legal status in in International Jerusalem. Israel gained control of both parts of the city after Jordan This monograph shows that Israel has valid legal status in and other Arab states declared war upon it in May 1948 and in June 1967 respectively. In doing so, Israel exercised its right to self-defense, which international law recognizes as a legitimate reason for using and Israeli Law Jerusalem. Israel gained control of both parts of the city military force. Moreover, apart from Pakistan, not a single country in the world (including any of the Arab states) recognized the legality of Jordan’s sovereignty over east Jerusalem. after Jordan and other Arab states declared war upon it in In fact, this rationale led to the recent dramatic developments in the attitude of other countries regarding Jerusalem’s status. In April 2017, Russia recognized west Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and east May 1948 and in June 1967 respectively. In doing so, Israel Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. In December 2017, the United States recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In February 2018, the United States announced that its embassy would exercised its right to self-defense, which international law be transferred from to Jerusalem in May 2018. Subsequently, other countries are either taking similar steps, or considering doing so. Shmuel Berkowitz recognizes as a legitimate reason for using military force.

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13 The Jerusalem Center’s Jewish Political Studies Review is the first and only journal dedicated to the study of Jewish Academic political institutions and behavior, Jewish political thought, Publications and Jewish public affairs.

We are pleased to welcome JPSR’s new editor, Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, who takes over from the talented and devoted Dr. Joel Fishman, a fellow of the Jerusalem Center. Jewish Political Studies Review Jewish Political Studies Review

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Volume 29, Numbers 1 & 2 Volume 29, Numbers 3 & 4

Volume 29, Numbers 1 Is the Jewish State the Ultimate Evil or a Golden Opportunity? Volume 29, Numbers 3 Ideology vs. Politics in the Teachings and Actions of Freedom Denied: Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum—the Satmar Rebbe A Firsthand Look at Kurdistan’s Referendum Debacle, One Year On Menachem Keren-Kratz Zach Huff

To Kill Hope? In Search of a Reliable Strategy to Fight Terrorism No Arab Demographic Time Bomb Moshe Yanovskiy, Tim Ginker, Ilia Zatcovetsky, and Sergei Zhavoronkov Yoram Ettinger

& The Polish Theologian Waldemar Chrostowski and the Setback of & 2 4 Verses and Reality: What the Koran Really Says about Jews the Christian‑Jewish Dialogue Israel Shrentzel Arno Tausch The Arab-Muslim Slave Trade: Lifting the Taboo The Saudi Specter over the American Education System David Gakunzi Arnon Gutfeld A New Anti-Semitism? Regarding Israel’s Borders: Michel Wieviorka The Bible is neither a Land Registry nor a Legend Florence Taubmann

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14 Extensive Use of Videos, Twitter, Facebook, the Daily Alert, Expanding the and Podcasts Pro‑Israel Case in The Jerusalem Center’s Internet flagship is the website Social Media jcpa.‍org. Jerusalem Center websites serve as platforms for analyses in the form of blogs, Jerusalem Issue Briefs, YouTube presentations, Twitter, Facebook, the Daily Alert news digest (dailyalert.org), and a new podcast feature, “Jerusalem Talks: Expert Analysis.”

The Jerusalem Center’s Podcast

The Center’s new video feature, Diplomatic Dispatch is a series of briefings by the Center’s president, Dore Gold, on strategic issues that Israel faces today. It is produced by the Center’s Institute for Contemporary Affairs, founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation.

Page views for all Jerusalem Center websites in May 2018 totaled 1,733,432 for the month (up from 1,311,248 in November 2017), from 243,341 unique visitors.

The Jerusalem Center’s YouTube reached 94,078 viewers in May 2018.

Facebook Likes: 16,594.

Twitter Followers: 23,037. (Average gain: 4 followers per day)

The Jerusalem Center’s Daily Alert Israel News Digest includes a daily email newsletter to subscribers, a website, a mobile version formatted for cellphones, an RSS web feed, an archive of all back issues since 2002, a searchable database of 68,000+ articles, and a news ticker. The Daily Alert readership shows a strong growth pattern.

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15 The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs is a leading independent research institute specializing in public diplomacy and foreign policy. Founded in 1976, the Center has produced hundreds of studies and initiatives by leading experts on a wide range of strategic topics. Dr. Dore Gold, Israel’s former Ambassador to the UN and Director-General of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has headed the Jerusalem Center since 2000.

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