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Monday, July 3 Israel and the Middle East News Update Thursday, March 2 Headlines: Ministers to Debate Bill to Apply Sovereignty to Ma’ale Adumim Poll: Public Feels Netanyahu Failed on the Tunnels But Most Fit to Lead Gantz: ‘My Troops Are the Ones Who Grade Me’ Trump Suggests Wave of Anti-Semitism False Flag by Jews Senior Intel Official: Syria Tops Jerusalem's Security Agenda IDF Intelligence Director: Gaza on Verge of Explosion Gaza Rocket Attacks Sparked by Hamas Crackdown on Pro-IS Groups Commentary: Al-Monitor: “How Israel’s Gaza War Report Became a Political Battlefield” By Mazal Mualem, Israel Pule Columnist, Al-Monitor TOI: “Israel Stuck in Tunnels of Yesteryear, But Hamas Is Digging Right Now” By Avi Issacharoff, Middle East Analyst, Times of Israel 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 March 2, 2017 Ma’ariv Ministers to Debate Bill to Apply Sovereignty to Ma’ale Adumim On Sunday, The Ministerial Committee for Legislation is scheduled to discuss the bill to apply Israeli sovereignty to Maale Adumim, which will put to the test the new relationship between the Trump administration and the Israeli government. The bill was introduced by MKs Yoav Kisch (Likud) and Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home). The explanation to the bill says that Ma’ale Adumim has always and forever been an inseparable part of the historic Land of Israel and that there is a broad consensus in Israel and in the world that it should come under Israeli sovereignty. See also, “Ma'ale Adumim Pushes for a Sunday Ministerial Vote on Annexation” (Jerusalem Post) NRG Poll: Netanyahu Failed on the Tunnels But Most Fit to Lead Channel One reported a poll it commissioned that found a majority of the Israeli public believes Prime Minister Netanyahu is the figure who is most responsible for the tunnel fiasco in Operation Protective Edge. Conducted against the backdrop of the release of the state comptroller’s report on Gaza and despite the public holding Netanyahu responsible, it also considers him the figure most fit for the job of prime minister. Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid is the leading figure after Netanyahu. See also, “Amos Yadlin: State Comptroller Adopted a Childish Approach” (Arutz Sheva) Ynet News Gantz: ‘My Troops Are the Ones Who Grade Me’ The day after State Comptroller Yosef Shapira’s report about the mistakes of Operation Protective Edge was released, Benny Gantz, who was chief of staff at the time, responded to the criticism that was leveled at him. In a relaxed and restrained interview with Channel Two News, he rejected the criticism and termed it “hindsight.” He said he was at peace with what he had done and directed implied criticism at the members of the security cabinet in the course of the operation. Ha’aretz Trump Suggests Wave of Anti-Semitism False Flag by Jews US President Donald Trump on Tuesday indicated for the second time he believes it is possible the current wave of anti-Semitism could be “false flags” – perpetrated by the left or Jews themselves to make his administration look bad. Trump spoke to a gathering of state attorney generals including Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Shapiro told reporters in a conference call after the meeting that Trump suggested the attacks could reflect something other than anti-Semitism, saying “the reverse can be true…someone’s doing it to make others look bad,” according to Philly.com. See also, “Trump Is Flirting with the Idea that Anti-Semitic Incidents Are False Flag – Yet Again” (Washington Post) See also, “Trump Surrogate Walks Back 'False Flag' Tweet on JCC Threat” (Forward) 2 Times of Israel Senior Intel Official: Syria Tops Jerusalem's Security Agenda Despite ongoing concerns over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, dealing with threats emanating from the Syrian war theater currently tops the agenda of Israel’s security apparatus, according to a top intelligence official. “The most important strategic issue we’re currently facing is the strengthening of the Shiite axis led by Iran in Syria, especially after the fall of Aleppo,” Chagai Tzuriel, the director- general of the Intelligence Ministry, said Wednesday. In mid-December, pro-government forces captured the war-torn city from the hands of rebels fighters. “Syria is the key arena, because it’s a microcosm of everything: world powers, such as Russia and the US; regional actors such as Iran and Turkey; and rival groups within the country, such the Assad regime, the opposition, the Kurds and the Islamic State,” Tzuriel told The Times of Israel during a recent briefing in his Jerusalem office. “Whatever happens in Syria today will greatly impact the region, and beyond, for years to come.” Yedioth Ahronoth IDF Intelligence Director: Gaza on Verge of Explosion Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Hertzi Halevy yesterday gave an intelligence review to the members of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that contained both a calming message and an urgent warning. One day after the state comptroller’s report was released that criticized the government for ignoring the dire economic situation in Gaza on the eve of Operation Protective Edge—which could have prevented the outbreak of the fighting—Halevy described a situation not much different: participants at the meeting said that Halevy said that there was a terrible humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip that was liable to lead to an explosion. That said, he contended that Hamas did not want a clash at this stage. In the territories, in contrast, his diagnosis was more troubling: Halevy said that if the PA residents did not immediately see anything on the peace horizon—a clash in the West Bank was likely. Times of Israel Gaza Rockets Sparked by Hamas Crackdown on Pro-IS Groups The spate of recent rocket attacks against Israel from Gaza are reportedly the result of increased tension between Hamas and extremist Salafist groups in the Strip. According to a report Thursday in the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, Hamas has arrested hundreds of Salafis in recent months, including noncombatants. In order to put pressure on Hamas to release the prisoners, Salafi militants who identify with the Islamic State terror group and seek to turn Gaza into a caliphate have been firing rockets at Israel, which they know result in costly Israeli retaliations against Hamas property and sometimes its members. See also, “Rocket Fired into Israel from Gaza Second Time this Week” (BICOM) See also, “UN Envoy Slams Rocket Attack from Gaza” (Times of Israel) 3 Al-Monitor – February 28, 2017 How Israel’s Gaza War Report Became a Political Battlefield By Mazal Mualem Education Minister and HaBayit HaYehudi Chair Naftali Bennett was in high spirits as he wandered the halls of the Knesset on Feb. 27. In fact, the members of his party noted that he seemed unusually pleased with himself. Just one day before the release of the state comptroller's report on the performance of the Security Cabinet and the military leadership during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza (with much of the report’s content leaked to the press), Bennett could claim an enormous victory. Indeed, the report describes him as the only minister who demanded that Israel take action against the threat posed by Hamas’ terror tunnels. An old rabbinic adage says, "He who works hard before the Sabbath will have what to eat on the Sabbath." It could easily refer to Bennett, who was a member of the Security Cabinet during the operation. Even as the fighting was underway, he made a point of branding himself as the campaign's political victor. He was the young minister who challenged the prime minister, the defense minister and the chief of staff, all of whom failed in their management of the fighting in Gaza. Bennett showed an unprecedented level of sophistication by shifting the public discourse about the operation to the threat posed by the Hamas attack tunnels. As the report shows, not only did he convince the public, he even managed to convince the state comptroller himself that the most important way to assess Operation Protective Edge should be through that prism. Bennett operated like a well-oiled PR machine in the month preceding the report's release. Military and political pundits and senior media figures alike all received personal briefings from him. This prepared Bennett for the inevitable political fighting both preceding and following the report's Feb. 28 release. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Moshe Ya'alon, who was defense minister at the time of the fighting, and then-Chief of Staff Benny Gantz waged a media campaign of their own in an effort to undermine the state comptroller's findings, which were very critical of them. Meanwhile, Bennett made some last-minute adjustments to his own efforts. In the days before the report’s release, he briefed the members of his faction about its findings and recruited them to continue with his political and media campaign — a campaign designed to intensify as the report would be published. In closed-door party meetings, Bennett could finally show his Knesset colleagues that he was "providing them with the goods," as the head of a party with eyes on the prime minister's office. On the night before the report was published, Bennett shared his version of events again, this time at a meeting with party activists. Bennett's new status as the political beneficiary of the criticism surrounding Operation Protective Edge bolsters his standing within his party and among the right at large. When confronting Netanyahu and Ya'alon, his two main rivals for the leadership of the right, he can now present himself as a security hawk who has a better understanding of the threats posed by the campaign in Gaza.
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