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Biden to Netanyahu Israel and Middle East News Update Wednesday, May 19 Headlines: ● SA'AR Mulling Power Sharing Deal With Netanyahu ● Israeli Arabs Stage Nationwide General Strike in Protest ● Biden to Netanyahu: 'Wind Down' Bombardment of Gaza ● Israel, Hamas Deny Ceasefire Expected on Thursday ● EU to Seek Israel-Palestinian Peace Talks With US, Russia ● HFA Chair Won't Delay Weapons Sale to Israel ● Israel Strikes Hamas's as Rockets Aimed at Air Force Bases ● Settlers Pull Plug on Firm Over Its Act for Coexistence Commentary: ● Yedioth Ahronoth: “Cognition Games’’ - By Shimrit Meir ● Ma’ariv: “Deadlock Image’’ - By Ben Caspit S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace 1725 I St NW Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006 The Hon. Robert Wexler, President News Excerpts May 19, 2021 Ha’aretz SA'AR Mulling Power Sharing Deal With Netanyahu Gideon Sa'ar, head of the New Hope party, is looking into a power-sharing government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Ha’aretz. Sa'ar has agreed to advance the initiative by the leader of the far-right Religious Zionism party, Betzalel Smotrich, after Naftali Bennett announced that establishing a "government of change" headed by him and Yair Lapid was off the table. Sources in New Hope have said that Sa'ar "did not receive an offer from MK Smotrich and we do not know of one." Smotrich has presented this offer to both Netanyahu and Sa'ar via third parties. Significant obstacles stand in the way of forming such a government, including who would serve first as prime minister as part of a rotation deal, and the length of each term. Dig Deeper ‘‘SA’AR Said Weighing Power-Sharing Government With Netanyahu, if Made PM First’’ (Times of Israel) Ynet News Israeli Arabs Stage Nationwide General Strike in Protest Israeli Arabs have declared a general strike in protest of the military campaign in Gaza and recent tensions within Israel. The move was initiated by the Arab High Follow-Up Committee, led by former member of Knesset Mohammad Barakeh, and will focus mainly on supposed Israeli aggressions at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and the eviction of several Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the eastern part of the city following a land rights dispute with Jewish residents. Arab activists will stand at the entrances to Arab communities in the morning hours and ask locals not to go out to work. The strike will reportedly include all businesses and industries except for private education. A general strike and a day of rage have been also declared on the West Bank, with the Palestinian ruling faction Fatah calling for confrontations with Israeli security forces. Dig Deeper ‘‘Employers Threaten to Fire Arab Workers Participating in General Strike’’ (Ynet News) Associated Press Biden to Netanyahu: 'Wind Down' Bombardment of Gaza President Joe Biden encouraged Netanyahu to wind down the bombardment of Gaza, a person with knowledge of the discussions said, as the Israeli and Palestinian death tolls mounted, and pressure grew on Biden to move more forcefully to stop the fighting. The account shows Biden administration officials going further privately in messaging to Netanyahu than they have previously revealed. A White House readout of a Biden call to Netanyahu said Biden had expressed support for a cease-fire but said nothing about the urging Israel to bring fighting to a close. The fighting has killed at least 213 Palestinians and 12 people in Israel and tested both Biden’s reluctance to publicly criticize Israel and his administration’s determination not to bog down its foreign policy focus in Middle East hot spots. Dig Deeper ‘‘Israel, Gaza Violence Overshadows Biden’s Domestic Plans’’ (Associated Press) 2 Times of Israel Israel, Hamas Deny Ceasefire Expected on Thursday Reports that Israel and Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip will cease fire on Thursday morning sparked a flurry of denials from all parties involved, while the White House continued applying behind-the-scenes pressure Israel to wind down the fighting. Egypt has proposed an Israel- Hamas ceasefire through private channels that would take effect on Thursday, Channel 12 reported. The report cited Palestinian sources saying Hamas had agreed to the offer, while there had been no response from Israel. But it took less than an hour for denials to begin pouring in. According to Channel 13, Hamas was seeking reassurances from Israel that it would not attempt to kill the terror group’s leaders during the ceasefire — a demand rejected by Israel — while Jerusalem was demanding the terror group hold its fire for several hours while it weighs the ceasefire offer, a condition rejected by Hamas. Dig Deeper ‘‘IDF Twice Tried, Failed to Killed Hamas Military Chief Muhammad Deif Last Week’’ (Times of Israel) Reuters EU to Seek Israel-Palestinian Peace Talks With US, Russia An emergency European Union video meeting called for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, offer more humanitarian aid and try to relaunch peace talks, Malta's foreign minister said. Malta's Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo told Reuters that President Biden's openness to seek a solution to the decades-old conflict was crucial, "because unless we address the root causes (the violence) will happen again." "I think I'm not being too optimistic (to say) that at a minimum, what will probably come out (of the EU meeting) is the call for a ceasefire, an offer of humanitarian aid, and then seeing how to restart the political process," Bartolo said via video link. After a ceasefire, the EU would "work with the United States, work with Russia to try and deal with the situation," he added. Dig Deeper ‘‘France Seeks UN Security Council Resolution’’ (Associated Press) I24 News HFA Chair Won't Delay Weapons Sale to Israel US House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said that US House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks would not be sending a letter to President Biden asking him to delay $735m in precision-guided missiles to Israel amid the conflict with Gaza-based terrorist organizations who have fired thousands of rockets aimed at Israeli civilians. Meeks reportedly claimed to have been unaware of the weapons sale during a virtual conference with fellow Democrats, telling them that he was considering slowing down the weapons sale to Israel. The Washington Post reported the weapons sale, but the White House had notified Congress back on May 5 -- five days before the Gaza conflict started. Several members of Meeks' committee reportedly were not aware of the weapons sale before the Post report. The White House notification of the arms deal allows 15 days for Congress to release a non-binding resolution to disapprove. Dig Deeper ‘‘Biden Administration Approves $735m Weapons Sale to Israel, Raising Red Flags for Some House Democrats’’ (Washington Post) 3 Jerusalem Post Israel Strikes Hamas's as Rockets Aimed at Air Force Bases Hamas aimed rockets at Israel Air Force bases in the South - including Tel Nof, Nevatim and Ramon - as sirens sounded across the country amid barrages into central and southern Israel. Incoming rocket sirens were activated in the Gaza border communities, the southern cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod as well as the towns of Rehovot, Nes Ziona and Palmachim in the center of the country. IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman said that no rockets impacted the bases, where planes had been taking off and landing throughout the night. One projectile did land in an open field in proximity to the Tel Nof Airbase near Rehovot. Air Force jets struck additional sections of the Hamas "Metro" underground tunnel network, this time focusing on the southern Gaza Strip in Khan Younis and Rafah. The IDF said that 52 airplanes dropped some 120 munitions in 25 minutes, destroying 12 kilometers of the network. Other than the tunnel network, the IAF also struck a number of targets in the upscale Gaza City neighborhood of Rimal, and “after 36 hours of strikes,” the military has finished its airstrikes in the area, Zilberman said. Dig Deeper ‘‘Scenes From Israel-Hamas Aerial Bombardments’’ (Axios) Times of Israel Settlers Pull Plug on Firm Over Its Act for Coexistence Several Jewish settlement councils and right-wing organizations announced they were cutting ties with major telecommunications company Cellcom, after the company halted work for an hour on Tuesday to protest Jewish-Arab mob violence in Israel in the past week. Cellcom said the gesture was meant as an act in support of coexistence in Israel between Arabs and Jews. But members of the far-right Religious Zionism party claimed the protest — which coincided with a general strike by Arab Israelis and Palestinians throughout Israel, the West Bank and Gaza — was a show of solidarity with the Palestinians against Israel’s military operation in Gaza. Itamar Ben Gvir added: “Disconnect from Cellcom. Now. Those who identify with terrorists and [their] strikes are not worthy of receiving our business.” The heads of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, Har Hebron Regional Council, Shomron Regional Council and Binyamin Regional Council — all in the West Bank — subsequently said they would cease working with Cellcom and were seeking alternative providers. The company’s stock slipped by some 2 percent following the controversy. Following the news of the boycott, MK Ayman Odeh, the head of the predominantly Arab Joint List party, tweeted: “I heard the settlers are disconnecting from Cellcom. I never thought I’d be so envious of a cellular company.” Dig Deeper ‘‘Rabbis, Imams Call for End to Interethnic Violence’’ (Jerusalem Post) 4 Yedioth Ahronoth – May 19, 2021 Cognition Games By Shimrit Meir ● Progress was made on two parallel tracks yesterday and will continue to be made today as well.
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