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Israel and the Middle East News Update Israel and the Middle East News Update Wednesday, January 13 Headlines: Israeli Officials React Strongly to Swedish Foreign Minister EU Funding Dead Sea Road to Help Annex Area C to Palestinian Authority Rivlin, Netanyahu Welcome New German-Made Submarine U.S. Church Puts 5 Banks from Israel on a Blacklist Unusual Israeli Airstrike Targets Terror Cell Near Gaza Border General: If UN Posts on Syria Border Fall, Israel Will Respond Four Israelis Charged for Lynching Eritrean Mistaken for Terrorist Iran Releases U.S. Sailors After Standoff Commentary: Tablet: “A Jewish ISIS Rises in the West Bank” By Hillel Gershuni, Journalist and Doctoral Candidate, Hebrew University Ha’aretz: “Crime in Israeli Arab Districts Follows Shameful Police Neglect” By Moshe Arens, Former Israeli Foreign and Defense Minister S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace 633 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20004 www.centerpeace.org ● Yoni Komorov, Editor ● David Abreu, Associate Editor News Excerpts January 13, 2015 Ma’ariv Israeli Officials React Strongly to Swedish Foreign Minister Foreign Ministry officials said the irresponsible statements made by Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom about the need to investigate the killing of terrorists in Israel buoyed terror and encouraged violence. Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman, a former foreign minister, reacted fiercely to the Swedish foreign minister’s call to investigate whether Israel had executed Palestinians without trial in the recent wave of violence. He said the only thing the Swedish foreign minister had not yet done was physically join Palestinian terrorists and stab Jews. Opposition Chairman Yitzhak Herzog condemned Swedish foreign minister’s remarks saying she gave a tailwind to terror and such statements distanced the chances of separation between Israelis and Palestinians. See also, “Israel Blasts Swedish FM for ‘Supporting Terrorism, Encouraging Violence’” (Jerusalem Post) Jerusalem Post EU Funding Dead Sea Road to Help Annex Area C to PA The EU must stop funding illegal Palestinian building in the West Bank, Likud MK Yoav Kisch said on Sunday during a tour of Judea and Samaria sponsored by the Knesset’s Land of Israel Caucus. “A war is being waged over Area C,” Kisch said. He spoke after politicians, led by the non-governmental group Regavim, had visited a number of areas where the EU has funded one room modular homes for Palestinian Beduin around the Ma’aleh Adumim area. Politicians could see that on each structure the EU had placed a sign with a logo, so it was clear that they had supported the new housing. See also, “Palestinians Illegally Paving Road Passing Through Area C” (Ynet News) BICOM Rivlin, Netanyahu Welcome New German-Made Submarine Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other dignitaries yesterday unveiled Israel’s newest Dolphin-class submarine, believed capable of delivering a nuclear payload boosting Israel’s so-called “second strike” capability. At a ceremony in Haifa Port, the INS Rahav completed its journey from Kiel, Germany. In his comments, Netanyahu thanked “the German government, Chancellor Merkel and President Gauck, for your great contribution to building up our naval strength by supplying this submarine and other important means that we are discussing.” The New York Times U.S. Church Puts 5 Banks from Israel on a Blacklist The pension board of the United Methodist Church — one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States, with more than seven million members — has placed five Israeli banks on a list of companies that it will not invest in for human rights reasons, the board said in a statement on Tuesday. It appeared to be the first time that a pension fund of a large American church had taken such a step regarding the Israeli banks, which help finance settlement construction in what most of the world considers illegally occupied Palestinian territories. See also, “U.S. Church Puts Five Israeli Banks on Investment Blacklist” (Ha'aretz) 2 Ha’aretz Unusual Israeli Airstrike Targets Terror Cell Near Gaza Border The Israel Air Force struck a cell that was planting explosives in the northern Gaza Strip, near the border fence, on Wednesday morning. Officials in Gaza reported that one person was killed and three were wounded in the attack. Media outlets in Gaza identified the man killed in the strike as Moussa Zeitar, 23. This is an unusual operation, considering the Israel Defense Forces normally carries out air strikes only in response to rocket fire. Following the attack, the IDF instructed farmers in the area to stay away from the border fence. See also, “Israel Air Force Strikes Gaza Cell Attempting to Target Soldiers with Explosive Device” (Jerusalem Post) Jerusalem Post General: If UN Posts on Syria Border Fall, Israel Will Respond The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force must retain control of its positions on Mount Hermon on the Syria-Israel border since their capture by Sunni terrorist factions or by elements from the radical Shi’ite axis would form a “severe threat to IDF posts” in the area, a former senior military official warned. In a paper published in recent days at the Institute for National Security Studies, where he is a senior research fellow, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Assaf Orion said the IDF would have to “respond accordingly” if UNDOF’s border posts on Mount Hermon in Syria fall to radical elements. CNN Four Israelis Charged Lynching Eritrean Mistaken for Terrorist Four Israelis, including an Israel Defense Forces soldier, have been charged in connection with the lynching of an Eritrean migrant who was mistaken for a terrorist during an attack in October. Haftom Zarhum, a 29-year-old Eritrean who worked at the Beersheva central bus station, was shot by a security guard, then set upon by an angry mob who wrongly believed he had just shot a soldier at the scene. Zarhum later died of his injuries, according to Israel's Southern District Attorney's office. The district attorney's office said in a statement that four people had been charged with causing grave bodily harm for their roles in last year's assault, which it described as a "lynching." Times of Israel Iran Releases U.S. Sailors After Standoff Tehran released 10 US Navy sailors who were arrested Tuesday after their boats entered Iranian territorial waters. The US Navy said the American crewmembers were returned safely and there were no indications they had been harmed while in custody. The nine men and one woman had been held at an Iranian base on Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf after being detained nearby on Tuesday. The tiny outpost has been used as a base for Revolutionary Guard speedboats as far back as the 1980s. See also, “Iran Releases 10 U.S. Navy Sailors It Detained” (Ynet News) 3 Tablet – January 11, 2016 A Jewish ISIS Rises in the West Bank By Hillel Gershuni To be a Hilltop Youth is to first disaffiliate with all establishments in Israel. Especially the settlements. These young Hasidic-looking men and women make their homes out of trucks, cars, trailers, caves—anything suitable for a makeshift shelter—atop the hills of Judea and Samaria. They see themselves as connected to the Land of Israel, not to any of the institutions of the Israeli state. The very violent group among them consists of no more than a few dozen core members and a few hundred more who support them in public demonstrations and on social media. Some in Israel refer to them in disgust and horror as “Jewish ISIS,” and while there’s a great distance between Al Baghdadi’s practice of beheading, burning alive, and massacring thousands of people and the violence of extreme members of Hilltop Youth, there is indeed a deep connection between the two phenomena. ISIS is not just a state—it’s an idea, and a powerful one: throwing away modern norms and acting to revive the golden age of the Islamic Caliphate. And just like the Caliphate, the methods to achieve it are pre-modern: “Din Muhammad Bissayf,” the religion of Muhammad is [enforced, spread] by the sword. The success of such cruel methods within the blurry borders of Iraq and Syria has drawn young enthusiastic Muslims from around the world to Syria. Similarly, ideas of reviving the thousands-of-years-old Kingdom of Judea draw young enthusiastic men and women to the hilltops, where the leaders and idea-men of the Hilltop Youth promise their followers a sense of authenticity in a post-modern world. As with ISIS, this authenticity is predicated on destroying all institutions of the State of Israel, which is undeserving of recognition. Hilltop Youth abandon the communities in which they were raised to live in trucks in uninhabited regions of the Judean Hills. In their nativist ideology, they are the real Jews upholding the “true” Jewish way, and they encourage each other to strive with violence and terror against non-Jews in order to retaliate against Arab terrorism and to establish a pure Jewish existence on the land of Israel. The State of Israel is evil, and the religious communities and ideologies that support it are misguided, they believe. Their nativism perceives the State of Israel and its supporters as “Erev Rav,” a Kabbalistic term that refers to people who look like Jews but have the souls of enemy gentiles. The first inclination of many observers is to label young people who seek out nativist causes like ISIS or the Hilltop Youth as “crazy,” “lunatics,” or “hormone-laden kids.” But behind this perceived lunacy is a certain philosophy, or a general tendency, that we can trace back to leaders who either taught fundamentalist and nativist philosophies or whose teachings have been interpreted to support violence and terror.
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