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Israel Update – Monday, July 3 Israel and the Middle East News Update Thursday, August 4 Headlines: Israel, US Say Progress Made in Military Aid Talks, Deal Expected Soon Hamas ‘Infiltrated Gazan Aid Group’, Stole Tens of Millions of Dollars Knesset Votes to Postpone Launch of New Public Broadcasting Corp. Ahead of Elections, Fatah Brags of Killing 11,000 Israelis Israel’s Arabs Want More Industrial Zones Cabinet to Vote on Giving Gaza a Port ISIS in Sinai Threatens to Turn Israel into a Graveyard IDF Destroys Homes of Sarona Terrorists Commentary: Project Syndicate: “Israel’s Government Hawks and Military Doves” By Daniel Kurtzer, Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel Middle East Institute: “Israeli-Russian Relations: Respect and Suspect” By Eran Etzion, Former-Head of Policy Planning, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs 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 August 4, 2016 Ha’aretz Israel, US Say Progress Made in Aid Talks, Deal Expected Soon Following three days of intensive discussions in Washington, D.C. progress has been made in talks between Israel and the U.S. on the military agreement aid, but the two sides have yet to reach a deal. Senior American and Israeli officials expressed their optimism, telling Ha’aretz that most of the remaining gaps are technical, and that they believe that an agreement could soon be reached. Jerusalem Post Hamas ‘Infiltrated Gazan Aid Group’, Stole Tens of Millions Hamas infiltrated a large international aid organization operating in Gaza and redirected tens of millions of dollars - 60 percent - of the organization's budget to its military wing, the Shin Bet announced on Thursday, following an investigation that lasted almost two months. The World Vision organization, which operates in 100 countries and employs 46,000 people, fell victim to a complex, pre-planned Hamas takeover scheme, a senior Shin Bet source said, adding that Hamas's military wing stole 7.2 million dollars a year from the budget, aimed at food, humanitarian assistance, and aid programs for disabled children, and channeling the funds to weapons acquisitions, tunnel building, and other preparations for war with Israel. See also, “Top Official in Christian Aid Group Charged with Funneling Funds to Hamas” (Ha'aretz) Israel Radio News Knesset Votes to Postpone Launch of New Public Broadcasting The Knesset plenum last night approved, in second and third readings, the amendment to the law enabling the start of operation of the new public broadcasting corporation to be postponed to April 30, 2017. 41 MKs voted in favor, three were opposed and three abstained. The communications minister and the finance minister will be empowered to move up the start of operations as of January 1, 2017 if the corporation’s council announces that it is ready. See also, “Knesset Passes Controversial Delay for New Public Broadcaster” (Times of Israel) Ha’aretz Ahead of Elections, Fatah Brags of Killing Over 11,000 Israelis In a Facebook post Tuesday, the Palestinian Fatah group listed a number of its achievements. At the top: the killing of 11,000 Israelis. The post was carried by Fatah’s official page. It was translated by the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch. In its boast, Fatah also notes other achievements, such as losing 170,000 “martyrs,” being the first to carry out attacks in the First Intifada, which began in 1987, as well as in the second that launched in the fall of 2000. It also takes credit for leading the Palestinian campaign against Israel in the UN. See also, “Fatah, Hamas Accuse Each Other of Sabotaging Elections” (Times of Israel) 2 Ynet News Israel's Arabs Want More Industrial Zones Moded Yunis, the mayor of the Arab Israeli town of Arara in northern Israel, recently offered 20 jobs in nursery schools in the town. Although not particularly well-paying, more than 250 women in the town of 23,000 in northern Israel applied. “Because of the lack of jobs, some women leave their homes at 5am and travel hours to southern Israel to work,” said Yunis. “It is very frustrating for anyone who graduated college and then can’t find a job.” The Mossawa Center, the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel, says that about 60% of Israel’s Arabs are poor, and 65% live below the poverty line. Mossawa invited Yunis and other mayors to a conference at the Knesset, also hosted by long-time Arab parliamentarian Ahmed Tibi, focusing on the need for more industrial zones in the Arab sector. While Arabs constitute 20% of Israel’s populations, just 3.5% of all areas designated for light and heavy industry are in Arab towns, industrial zones that typically bring both money and jobs. Jerusalem Post Cabinet to Vote on Giving Gaza a Port The cabinet is to vote in the coming weeks on a proposal by Transportation Minister Israel Katz to facilitate the creation of a Gazan seaport, to be built on an artificial island off the Strip. For the past several years, Katz has been promoting the idea of constructing a seaport for Gaza on a man-made island. His proposal has recently gained the support of the defense establishment, which is concerned by the prospect of an economic collapse in Gaza triggering another war. “The world perceives Israel as having responsibility for Gaza,” Katz said during an interview, arguing that enabling the creation of the port will both help ordinary Gazans to make a living and improve Israel’s international diplomatic standing. “It won’t change Hamas’s ideology,” Katz said, but opening up Gaza to trade with the world certainly has the potential of acting as a restraining factor for Hamas. BICOM ISIS in Sinai Threatens to Turn Israel into a Graveyard An ISIS affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula yesterday released a video in which it threatened Israel by saying it would pay a “heavy price”. Sinai Province, which has pledged loyalty to ISIS, released a 35- minute video which shows footage of the terror group’s attacks on Egyptian troops. The narration includes direct threats towards Israel, addressing the Jewish state saying “your account with us has become weighty and you will soon pay a heavy price”. The video continues, pledging that “Jews will not remain in Palestine, we will turn it into a graveyard for Jews”. See also, “Rome, Jews, Israel Threatened by Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula” (International Business Times) Arutz Sheva IDF Destroys Homes of Sarona Terrorists IDF forces demolished the homes the terrorist responsible for the deadly attack in Sarona Market in Tel Aviv early Thursday morning, in a joint operation between Border Police and units of the Civil Administration’s enforcement division. In June, the two terrorists, Khalid and Mahmoud Mehamara, opened fire in the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, killing four and wounding six. Operating early Thursday morning, Israeli security forces destroyed Khalid Mehmara’s home in Yatta, south of Hebron, along with the home of his cousin, Mahmoud Mehamara in Khirbet Raka'a, also in the Hebron area. 3 Project Syndicate – August 3, 2016 Israel’s Government Hawks and Military Doves By Daniel Kurtzer Those who lead Israel’s defense establishment often come to consider peace with the Palestinians a necessary condition for the country’s security. Being tasked with maintaining the territories Israel has occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967 evidently causes the military and security brass to support political measures that would end the occupation. And yet the government shows no interest in pursuing a permanent settlement. To appreciate this divide, consider the late Meir Dagan, who served as Major General of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and then as Director of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. Several years ago, I sat on a panel at a conference in Jerusalem convened by then-Israeli President Shimon Peres. To my right sat Dagan, who had just completed eight years as head of Mossad; to my left sat Dore Gold, a former academic and former Israeli ambassador. The two men held very different views about how best to guarantee Israel’s security, and it is worth recapitulating their respective arguments. Gold argued that returning to pre-1967 armistice lines would leave Israel without “defensible borders.” He insisted that Israel could guard against threats from the east only if it maintained a military presence in the West Bank and controlled the Jordan River – which runs along the border separating Jordan from Israel and the West Bank. Dagan countered that the military’s role is to safeguard Israel’s borders, regardless of where those borders are drawn. While the IDF would certainly prefer to operate with the strategic advantages that holding more territory can confer, it would fulfill its mission under whatever conditions the Israeli government set for it. But Dagan went further, describing the principle of “defensible borders” as a canard that ignores the intentions and capabilities of the party on the other side of the border. With an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, the burden of defending the border would be vastly reduced, because Israel would have a serious cross-border partner with a mutual interest in avoiding armed conflict. A Palestinian security force would by default provide a significant measure of security for Israel as well. Dagan’s dovish position has a long tradition in Israel’s defense establishment. Peace Now, a nongovernmental organization that represents Israelis who support a political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was founded in 1978 when 348 IDF reservists sent a letter to then- Prime Minister Menachem Begin urging him to conclude the peace process with Egypt.
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