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Israel and Middle East News Update Israel and Middle East News Update Monday, March 22 Headlines: ● Thousands Protest Against Netanyahu Ahead of Election ● Rivlin: Won't Act To Form Unity Government After Election ● Rivlin Meets with New UN Mideast Peace Coordinator ● Shin Bet Takes PA Foreign Minister's VIP Border Pass ● Palestinians Expand Vaccination Campaign ● IDF Arrests 2 Armed Palestinians Who Crossed Gaza Border ● Iran Threatens US Army Post and Top General ● Groups Call on Kerry To Stop Trans-Israel Gulf Oil Deal Commentary: ● Yedioth Ahronoth: “Israel Wants a Change’’ - By Eshkol Nevo ● Ma’ariv: “Elimination Episode’’ - 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 Editor: Yousef Bashir News Excerpts March 22, 2021 Israel Hayom Thousands Protest Against Netanyahu Ahead of Election More than 20,000 people demonstrated in Jerusalem, calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a final show of force ahead of tomorrow’s Knesset election. The demonstration was organized by 25 protest groups. The so-called black-flag protest movement held other, smaller protests in numerous locations across Israel. The weekly protests against Netanyahu have taken place for nine months. But they have lost strength in recent months in part due to cold winter weather and after elections were declared in December. The grassroots protest movement believes Netanyahu cannot serve as prime minister while he is on trial for corruption charges. Many also object to his handling of the coronavirus crisis. Dig Deeper ‘‘Bennett Signs Pledge Not To Join Government with Yair Lapid as Prime Minister’’ (Times of Israel) Ynet News Rivlin: Won't Act To Form Unity Government After Election President Reuven Rivlin said he will not act to help form a unity government after the elections unlike his efforts following the previous national vote. Rivlin pressed Netanyahu and Blue & White leader Benny Gantz to form a unity government following the election in September of 2019, which resulted in a stalemate that at the time would not allow either political bloc to form a coalition. Sources said that during behind-closed-door talks, Rivlin said the idea of forming a unity government this time is "irrelevant" due to the plethora of parties that see themselves as major players. Rivlin is also not expected to push for preliminary consultations on the identity of the Knesset member who will receive the mandate to form the government and will only do so only after receiving the official results, in contrast to recent election cycles. Dig Deeper ‘‘Israel's Election Is Heading Toward a Deadlock, Final Polls Predict’’ (Jerusalem Post) I24 News Rivlin Meets with New UN Mideast Peace Coordinator President Rivlin met with the new UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process in Jerusalem to discuss regional matters and the COVID-19 pandemic. The two discussed the current regional challenges and the various needs raised by the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the important opportunities the Abraham Accords offer the peoples of the region, the president’s spokesperson said in a statement. The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, formerly known as UNSCO, represents the UN in all diplomatic efforts in regards to the Middle East. The international body also coordinates the humanitarian work of various UN agencies in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Dig Deeper ‘‘Poll: Americans’ Support for Israel High; Approval for PA and Palestinians Rises’’ (Times of Israel) 2 Jerusalem Post Shin Bet Takes PA Foreign Minister's VIP Border Pass The Shin Bet took Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Riad Malki's VIP border crossing pass and canceled crossing coordination as he returned from a meeting at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Palestinian sources reported. Malki was delayed at the Allenby border crossing between Israel and Jordan after returning from a meeting in relation to the investigation of Israel. Israeli sources said, "Riad Malki is leading Palestinian efforts before the International Criminal Court. with the purpose of harming the freedom of movement of senior Israeli officials and even to endanger their safety. These kinds of confrontation actions are inconsistent with the established relations between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority." Dig Deeper ‘‘Israelis Retaliate Against Palestinian Minister for ICC Move’’ (Axios) Associated Press Palestinians Expand Vaccination Campaign The Palestinian Health Ministry began administering the first doses of coronavirus vaccines it received from the global COVAX initiative to health care workers and older residents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The World Health Organization and its partners running the UN COVAX program delivered 61,400 vaccines to the PA, whereas 21,300 were shipped to the blockaded, Hamas- controlled Gaza Strip. The vaccine shipment is a boost to the West Bank, where the PA has struggled to obtain vaccines as the infection rate surged in recent weeks. Until now it had only secured 10,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and 2,000 shots from Israel for the roughly 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Even with the arrival of the vaccines, the Palestinian areas lag far behind Israel, which has vaccinated some 80% of its adult population. The disparity has drawn attention to the inequities in the global distribution of vaccines between rich and poor countries. The Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines are the first distributed by COVAX in the Palestinian territories. Dig Deeper ‘‘Abbas Receives First Vaccine Dose as Palestinian Inoculation Drive Set To Begin’’ (Times of Israel) I24 News IDF Arrests 2 Armed Palestinians Who Crossed Gaza Border Israeli troops arrested two Palestinians who crossed the security fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel, an IDF spokesman said in a statement. The individuals were armed with knives. Security forces took them in for further questioning. In a separate incident on the northern front, IDF troops arrested three suspects who encroached into Israel from Lebanon. In a statement, the IDF said that "A short while ago, IDF troops spotted three suspects who crossed the Blue Line from Lebanon into Israeli territory adjacent to the community of Yiftah. The troops apprehended the suspects and they are being questioned at the scene." Last week, the IDF arrested an armed Palestinian who entered Israel from the Palestinian enclave. An initial interrogation revealed that the suspect was in possession of three grenades, which he had left behind in a field adjacent to the border fence prior to his arrest. Dig Deeper ‘‘Palestinian Authority Attempting To Conceal Terrorist Stipends’’ (Jerusalem Post) 3 Times of Israel Iran Threatens US Army Post and Top General Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army base in Washington DC, and against the Army’s vice chief of staff, two senior US intelligence officials said. They said communications intercepted by the National Security Agency in January showed that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard discussed mounting “USS Cole-style attacks” against the base, referring to the October 2000 suicide attack in which a small boat pulled up alongside the Navy destroyer in the Yemeni port of Aden and exploded, killing 17 sailors. The intelligence also revealed threats to kill Gen. Joseph M. Martin and plans to infiltrate and surveil the base, according to the officials, who were not authorized to publicly discuss national security matters and spoke on condition of anonymity. The base, one of the oldest in the country, is Martin’s official residence. The intercepted chatter was among members of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and centered on potential military options to avenge the US killing of the former Quds leader, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad in January 2020, the two intelligence officials said. Dig Deeper ‘‘US, Belgium, France, Japan Hold Middle East Naval Drills Amid Iran Tensions’’ (I24 News) Times of Israel Groups Call on Kerry To Stop Trans-Israel Gulf Oil Deal Environmental organizations and activists have written to the US special presidential envoy for climate change, John Kerry, charging that an agreement between companies in Israel and the UAE to use Israel as a land bridge for the transport of crude oil from the Persian Gulf to European markets is “contrary to the new spirit of Israeli-US climate cooperation.” “We have specific environmental concerns relating to the likelihood of oil spills in the Gulf of Aqaba [that could endanger] the unique coral reefs of Eilat in Israel, the Sinai Peninsula [in] Egypt and Aqaba in Jordan,” read the letter, which also warned “of the pipeline potentially polluting the unique ecosystems of the Arava and Negev deserts” and of “oil spills occurring off the Mediterranean coast of Israel.” It continued, “No less significant, we believe that the project is contrary to the new spirit of Israeli-US climate cooperation that we were so pleased to learn about following conversations [that] we understand have been held with Israeli Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan.” The letter was signed by the heads of Zalul, EcoOcean and The Coast Patrol, all marine environmental organizations, as well as the chairpeople or directors of the Eilat Conservation Society, EcoPeace ME, the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Home Guardians and Green Course. The CEOs of the Eilat Eilot Renewable Energy Initiative and the solar power company Energiya Global Capital also signed. 4 Yedioth Ahronoth – March 22, 2021 Israel Wants a Change By Eshkol Nevo ● Israel wants a change. That isn’t merely [my own personal] heartfelt wish. In polls in which people are asked whether they want to see Netanyahu replaced, the absolute and unequivocal majority of people respond in the affirmative. The new and unprecedented political map that has been emerged ahead of these elections is a cry for change.
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