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Australian Foreign NSW Chairman PAUL RUBENSTEIN Minister H AUSTRALIA/ISRAEL REVIEW VOLUME 45 No. 3 MARCH 2020 AUSTRALIA/ISRAEL & JEWISH AFFAIRS COUNCIL REUVEN RIVLIN’S ODYSSEY The Israeli President returns home from Australia to confront an election and a seemingly insurmountable political impasse “DEAL OR NO DEAL?” VICTORY THROUGH BUSHFIRES AND REGIME ON THE DEFENCE CONSPIRACIES ROPES? Analysing the fine print in the Trump Inside Israel’s vital air Arabic-language The 41st anniversary of Administration’s long-awaited Israeli- defence systems, and commentators spin the Iranian Revolution Palestinian peace plan ....................... PAGE 18 the people who make dark theories about our has exposed Teheran’s them work ......PAGE 30 fire tragedy .....PAGE 27 vulnerabilities ... PAGE 24 WITH COMPLIMENTS NAME OF SECTION WITH COMPLIMENTS AND BEST WISHES FROM GANDEL GROUP CHADSTONE SHOPPING CENTRE 1341 DANDENONG ROAD CHADSTONE VIC 3148 TEL: (03) 8564 1222 FAX: (03) 8564 1333 2 AIR – March 2020 AUSTRALIA/ISRAEL VOLUME 45 No. 3 REVIEW MARCH 2020 EDITOR’S NOTE NAME OF SECTION his AIR puts the spotlight on Israeli President Reuven Rivlin for two separate reasons – ON THE COVER This historic visit to Australia in late February, and his vital role in trying to forge a viable Israeli President Reuven government for Israel after the election there on March 2. Rivlin speaks during the Fifth Amotz Asa-El explores both these elements of Rivlin’s recent odyssey, and this AIR edi- World Holocaust Forum at tion also tries to provide background in terms of where his visit fits into the seven decades the Yad Vashem Holocaust of the Australia-Israeli relationship. Plus, Israeli political columnist Anshel Pfeffer fleshes memorial museum in Jerusa- out the political complexities Rivlin will likely have to navigate throughout March, with a lem, Israel, 23 January 2020. probable hung parliament yet again and an acting prime minister on trial for corruption. Also featured this month is analysis of the details of the US Trump Administration’s (Photo: Ronen Zvulun/AAP) “Vision” for Middle East peace released on Jan. 28. Jacob Magid details what the peace plan actually says; Israeli pundit Dan Diker puts the plan into the context of principles going back to the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; while former Israeli lawmaker Einat Wilf looks beyond the Palestinians to the wider Arab world for the plan’s key impact. And don’t miss Yoav Limor’s enlightening encounter with Brig. Ran Kochav, the man charged with the vital task of protecting Israel from aerial and missile attacks, and Ran Porat’s exposé on some Arabic-language conspiracy theories in Australia about the recent hor- rific bushfire crisis, plus much more. We invite your feedback at [email protected]. Tzvi Fleischer CONTENTS FEATURE STORIES REGULAR COLUMNS FROM FROM THE EDITORIAL CHAIRMAN AUSTRALIA TO COLIN RUBENSTEIN ....................................................................... PAGE 4 A MAELSTROM WORD FOR WORD ................................................. PAGE 5 BY AMOTZ ASA EL SCRIBBLINGS Hectic though this [Austra- TZVI FLEISCHER ............................................................................ PAGE 6 lian] journey will be for [President Rivlin], it will be easier DECONSTRUCTION ZONE than the challenge that will await him once he returns EVELYN GORDON ........................................................................... PAGE 7 home ......................................................................................... PAGE 12 ASIA WATCH ISRAEL SET FOR “MARCH MADNESS” MICHAEL SHANNON ...................................................................... PAGE 8 BY ANSHEL PFEFFER ................................................................... PAGE 15 AIR NEW ZEALAND MIRIAM BELL ................................................................................ PAGE 9 DEVIL IN THE DETAILS What the Trump peace plan actually says BEHIND THE NEWS .............................................. PAGE 10 BY JACOB MAGID ........................................................................ PAGE 18 STRANGER THAN FICTION ........................ PAGE 11 A RETURN TO THE “RABIN DOCTRINE”? ..................................... PAGE 35 BY DAN DIKER .............................................................................. PAGE 20 NOTED AND QUOTED WHAT THE TRUMP PLAN CAN ACHIEVE IN PARLIAMENT ...................................................... PAGE 36 BY EINAT WILF ............................................................................. PAGE 23 MEDIA MICROSCOPE ALLON LEE ................................................................................... PAGE 39 COULD THE 41ST ANNIVERSARY BE THE LAST? BY SHARYN MITTELMAN ............................................................. PAGE 24 THE LAST WORD JEREMY JONES ........................................................................... PAGE 40 INSIGHTS AND ADMONITIONS BY AHRON SHAPIRO .................................................................... PAGE 26 THE BUSHFIRE CONSPIRACY With Compliments BY RAN PORAT ............................................................................. PAGE 27 ESSAY: VICTORY BEGINS WITH DEFENCE Specialty Quilts Inside the IDF’s air defence program BY YOAV LIMOR ............................................................................ PAGE 30 T: (03) 9532 0448 3 AIR – March 2020 Australia/Israel Review A journal of analysis and opinion published by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Editorial Chairman EDITORIAL Dr COLIN RUBENSTEIN AM Editor-in-Chief Dr TZVI FLEISCHER Senior Contributing Editor SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP IN JEREMY JONES AM Staff Writers ALLON LEE, JAMIE HYAMS, AHRON THE SPOTLIGHT SHAPIRO, SHARYN MITTELMAN, NAOMI LEVIN, OVED LOBEL, JUDY MAYNARD Publishing Manager he special friendship between Australia and Israel has been in the spotlight in recent MICHAEL SHANNON Correspondents Tweeks, especially with the historic visit of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to Austra- ISRAEL: AMOTZ ASA-EL lia in late February. EUROPE: DOUGLAS DAVIS NEW ZEALAND: MIRIAM BELL Rivlin’s trip followed on from Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s highly successful visit National Editorial Board here in February 2017 and then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s return visit to Israel, KEITH BEVILLE, RABBI RALPH GENENDE OAM, GARY HERZ, MIRIAM together with numerous bipartisan colleagues, for the Battle of Beer Sheva centenary in LASKY, STEVE LIEBLICH, RABBI JOHN October of that year. LEVI AM, Hon. HOWARD NATHAN AM, IAN WALLER SC Rivlin’s visit sends a clear message that Jerusalem cherishes the irreplaceable and long- standing friendship between our two countries and is very willing to continue investing in AIJAC that bond. National Chairman And Israel does indeed have much to be grateful for with respect to the unique Australia- MARK LEIBLER AC Israel relationship – going all the way back to the invaluable efforts of Australian Foreign NSW Chairman PAUL RUBENSTEIN Minister H. V. “Doc” Evatt in steering the Partition Plan resolution through the UN in 1947. Executive Director The current Morrison Government has certainly continued the principled interna- Dr COLIN RUBENSTEIN AM Director of International & tional stances which have helped deepen and underpin Australia-Israel relations over the Community Affairs many years since then. JEREMY JONES AM Senior Policy Analysts This has been most evident recently in Australia’s intervention against a dangerous AHRON SHAPIRO, JAMIE HYAMS, and politicised decision at the International Criminal Court (ICC), and our leadership in ALLON LEE, NAOMI LEVIN, SHARYN MITTELMAN confronting the gross bias at the UN Human Rights Council. Policy Analysts Australia’s opposition to the bid by the ICC to investigate alleged war crimes in what OVED LOBEL, JUDY MAYNARD Associate Director of Public Affairs it falsely insists is the “State of Palestine” was not a one-off gift to Israel. Rather, it was a JOEL BURNIE principled stance consistent with Australia’s longstanding, bipartisan support for a peace National Media & Public Affairs Officer between Israel and the Palestinians based on the paradigm of two states for two peoples ARIEL ZOHAR arrived at through bilateral negotiations. Events Coordinator HELEN BRUSTMAN OAM Australia joins Brazil, Hungary, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic in filing Administration “amicus brief” opinions to oppose the ICC’s assertion it has jurisdiction over the “State of MELBOURNE: ROSEMARY SANDLER, RENA LANGBERG Palestine”. The US is not an ICC member, but has also made its opposition clear. SYDNEY: LOUISE DE MESQUITA And politicised it is. Palestine is clearly not yet a state under the recognised criteria of Israel Liaison PETER ADLER international law as codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The ICC’s reasons Founding Chairmen for treating it as a state – which can then request the ICC investigate war crimes on its ISADOR MAGID AM (OBM) ROBERT ZABLUD (OBM) “territory” – basically boil down to relying on UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolu- HEAD OFFICE tions saying Palestine is a state. But not only does the UNGA lack the legal power to make Level 1, 22 Albert Road, South Melbourne, VIC 3205, Australia any such determination, it is a completely politicised body dominated by non-democratic Telephone: (03) 9681 6660 Fax: (03) 9681 6650 states pursuing their narrow political interests – which includes an automatic majority for Email: [email protected] virtually any conceivable anti-Israel proposal. SYDNEY OFFICE As the late Israeli diplomat Abba Eban rightly said about
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