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Israel and the Middle East News Update Israel and the Middle East News Update Tuesday, July 30 Headlines: • Israel Discuses Plans to Build Palestinian Housing in Area C • Right in Uproar over Netanyahu’s Palestinian Building Plan • Canadian court: Settlement Wines Cannot be Labeled ‘Made in Israel’ • Israel Expanding Attacks Against Iranians in Syria and Iraq • Israel, US working to upgrade UNIFIL's mandate to weaken Hezbollah • Likud Doubles Budget to Place Hidden Cameras in Arab Polling Stations • Top UNRWA Officials Accused of ‘Serious Ethical Abuses’ Commentary: • Ha’aretz: “Israel’s Parties Are Contracting to Bring About Netanyahu’s Downfall” - By Anshel Pfeffer, commentator at Ha’aretz • Al Monitor: “Can Netanyahu Split Blue and White?” - By Yossi Beilin, Columnist at Al Monitor S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace 633 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20004 The Hon. Robert Wexler, President ● Yoni Komorov, Editor ● Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat, Associate Editor News Excerpts July 30, 2019 Ha’aretz Israel Discuses Plans to Build Palestinian Housing in Area C The security cabinet has discussed plans in recent days to construct both Israeli and Palestinian housing in Area C of the West Bank, public broadcasting corporation Kan reported Monday night. It is unclear whether the plans for construction would be for new units or to legalize existing illegal structures however, no official decisions on the plans have been made. Sources familiar with the matter told Haaretz that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's initiative for discussion included 700 Palestinian units and 6,000 Jewish settlement units which are currently in the process of approval. In the coming days, Jared Kushner, is expected to arrive in Israel to discuss the economic chapter of his Middle East peace plan. Political sources believe that the relatively unusual discussion of Palestinian construction in Area C could be due to American pressure. See also, “PM said to float plan for Palestinian building permits in West Bank’s Area C” (TOI) Jerusalem Post Right in Uproar over Netanyahu’s Palestinian Building Plan The Israeli right is in an uproar over a report that Prime Minister Netanyahu held a security cabinet meeting to promote a Palestinian building plan for Area C in advance of a visit by US envoy Jared Kushner. “If it’s true that this is an American demand, then we expect our government to say loud and clear - enough!” Gush Etzion Regional Council head Shlomo Neeman said. The prime minister “must stop the delusional demands of our great friend [US President Donald Trump]” who, if he is a friend, would understand. Neeman called for the government to annex Area C of the West Bank, rather than paving the way for Palestinian development there. MK Ofir Sofer (United Right) accused Netanyahu of abetting the Palestinian Authority take-over of Area C with the financial support of the European Union. Sofer called on right-wing voters to prevent the prime minister from moving to the left of the political map after the September 17th election by supporting his party at the polls.“We need to be as strong as possible,” Sofer said. Times of Israel Canadian court: Settlement Wines Cannot be Labeled ‘Made in Israel’ Canada’s Federal Court on Monday ruled that wines produced by Israelis in the West Bank can no longer be labeled as “Made in Israel.” Challenging a previous decision by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Judge Anne L. Mactavish determined that labels describing wines made in the settlements as Israeli products are “false, misleading and deceptive.” In her ruling, she did not take a position on how exactly such wines should be labeled, saying this was for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to decide. Mactavish also noted that settlements are not considered part of the State of Israel, as Canada does not recognize Israeli sovereignty beyond the pre-1967 borders. While the judge’s decision is legal and not political in nature, it could potentially strain otherwise strong ties between Jerusalem and Ottawa.In 2015, the European Union said goods produced in the settlements must not be labeled as made in Israel. Many senior officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denounced the union for the move, suggesting that it was comparable to the Nazi boycott of Jewish goods before World War II. See also, “Canadian federal court: ‘Misleading’ to label West Bank wine ‘Products of Israel’(JNS) 2 Jerusalem Post Israel Expanding Attacks Against Iranians in Syria and Iraq Israel expanded attacks on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq in the past month, hitting two Iraqi bases and a strategic area in southern Syria in July, the London-based Saudi daily Al Sharq Al Awsat reported on Tuesday. The first attack happened on July 19 at a base in Amreli in the Saladin province of Iraq. The attack had been blamed on Israel at the time, and Al Sharq Al Awsat reported that "diplomatic sources" confirmed this to be true, specifying that the attack was carried out by an Israeli F-35. Al- Arabiya reported that Iranian-made ballistic missiles were transported to the base shortly before via trucks used to transport refrigerated food. The attacker was unspecified at the time, and the US denied any involvement. Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah members were killed in the air strike, according to Al-Arabiya. The Iranian-backed al-Hashd ash-Sha'abi (Popular Mobilization Forces - PMF) denied that any Iranians had been killed in the attack, according to Fars. See also, “Netanyahu Releases Video, Hints of Bombing Iraq” (Al Sharq Al Awsat) Jerusalem Post Israel, US working to upgrade UNIFIL's mandate to weaken Hezbollah Israel and the United States are jointly working to have the United Nations Security Council to upgrade the mandate of the international peacekeeping force based in southern Lebanon, providing it with greater authority in an effort to weaken Hezbollah. Israel Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told The Jerusalem Post that Israel is working with the US to upgrade UNIFIL’s mandate, specifically to give it the ability to visit and inspect any area in southern Lebanon. Under the existing mandate, UNIFIL cannot enter villages and urban areas unless it first coordinates such visits with the Lebanese army. Times of Israel Likud Doubles Budget to Place Hidden Cameras in Arab Polling Stations The Likud party has doubled its budget for a surveillance operation targeting balloting stations in Arab towns on election day in September, expanding a program critics have said is being used as a form of voter intimidation to keep Arabs from the polls. In the last election in April, the Likud party armed 1,200 of its polling committee representatives with hidden cameras and placed them at polling stations throughout Arab communities across the country. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party will now pump roughly NIS 2 million into the program, a source with knowledge of the operation confirmed to The Times of Israel. See also, “Netanyahu's Party Places 1,200 Hidden Cameras in Arab Polling Sites” (Ha’aretz) Jerusalem post Top UNRWA Officials Accused of ‘Serious Ethical Abuses’ An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees even as the organization faced an unprecedented crisis after US funding cuts. The allegations included in the confidential report by the agency’s ethics department are now being scrutinized by UN investigators. The agency — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) — said it is cooperating fully with the investigation and that it cannot comment in detail because the probe is ongoing. AFP has obtained a copy of the report, which describes “credible and corroborated” allegations of serious ethical abuses, including involving UNRWA’s top official, Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl. It says the allegations include senior management engaging in “sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority, for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent, and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives.” 3 Ha’aretz– July 30, 2019 Israel’s Parties Are Contracting to Bring About Netanyahu’s Downfall By Anshel Pfeffer, commentator at Ha’aretz • As things stand, the next Knesset will feature the smallest number of parties in Israel’s history. There are currently only nine parties with a realistic chance of crossing the electoral threshold on September 17. And if Labor leader Amir Peretz changes his mind before midnight on Thursday — the deadline for handing the party slates to the Central Elections Committee — and decides to join forces with Democratic Union (or if, as some now fear, Peretz’s party fails to cross the 3.25 percent threshold), we’ll only have eight parties in the 22nd Knesset. • Over the last seven decades, the Knesset has numbered, on average, 12 elected parties (not including the inevitable midterm splits and breakaways). Some had as many as 15, but the lowest until now was 10 (on three separate occasions). The short-lived, outgoing Knesset had 11 parties. This isn’t just meaningless statistics or a result of the threshold being raised three times since 1992. On the eve of the coming election, Israel’s politics is contracting, bracing itself for a cathartic event. • The contractions are happening in almost every part of the body politic. Let’s start with the all- too-often overlooked Arab parties. On Sunday night, the central committee of the Arab nationalist party Balad voted 26-1 to run with the three other Arab parties that comprised the Joint List of 2015. Balad’s hesitancy was due to a long list of internal and personal issues, but ultimately the decision partly came down to what one senior party member calls “the chance of finally getting rid of Netanyahu.” • To those aware of Balad and its sister parties’ politics, this may sound like a strange motive.
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