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Israel and Middle East News Update Israel and Middle East News Update Tuesday, March 23 Headlines: ● Israelis Vote on Netanyahu Again, After Vaccination Success ● Saar Open To Power-Sharing Deal with Lapid or Bennett ● IDF To Close West Bank, Gaza Crossings on Elections Day ● Israel Warns of Consequences for Palestinian Actions at ICC ● Abbas Advisers Urge Statehood with ‘Soft’ Sovereignty ● Lebanon Crisis Escalates After Failure To Agree Government ● Saudi Arabia Offers Cease-Fire Plan To Yemen Rebels ● EU Sanctions Remain on the Table, Germany Warns Turkey Commentary: ● Yedioth Ahronoth: “The Disease of Division’’ - By Yedidia Stern ● Yedioth Ahronoth: “The Absolute Last Call’’ - By Sima Kadmon S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace 1725 I St NW Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006 The Hon. Robert Wexler, President News Excerpts March 23, 2021 Reuters Israelis Vote on Netanyahu Again, After Vaccination Success Israelis vote today on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival in a fourth election in two years, with the veteran leader hoping his role in a rapid COVID-19 vaccine campaign will win him another term. On trial on corruption charges he denies, Netanyahu, 71, is Israel’s longest-serving head of government. Since 2009, he has led the politically polarized nation where supporters hail him as “King Bibi” and opponents call him “crime minister”. Opinion polls indicated an uptick for Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party in the campaign’s final days, giving a prospective coalition of conservative and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties around 60 seats in the 120-member Knesset. A possible, but more unlikely, alliance among right-wing, centrist and left-wing parties opposed to a Netanyahu-led government also fell short of a ruling majority in the legislature, but could also be within reach of power, the surveys showed. Dig Deeper ‘‘Netanyahu's Fate Rests on Arab Votes’’ (Al-Monitor) I24 News Saar Open To Power-Sharing Deal with Lapid or Bennett New Hope Party leader Gideon Saar refused to rule out the possibility of joining a government led by opposition leader Yair Lapid, leaving the door open for a coalition to replace Netanyahu. Sa'ar's remarks came after Yamina leader Naftali Bennett pledged not to sit in a government led by Lapid. The latest polls show Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party topping the polls at around 28 to 30 seats in the Knesset. The Yesh Atid party, led by centrist candidate Yair Lapid, is in second place at around 18 to 20 seats, followed by right-wing parties led by Saar and Bennett, each commanding around ten seats, respectively. But an i24NEWS/Israel Hayom poll published showed that some 21% of the electorate is still undecided. Dig Deeper ‘‘Security Services Said Preparing for Scenario in Which Knesset is Stormed’’ (Times of Israel) Ynet News IDF To Close West Bank, Gaza Crossings on Elections Day The IDF announced that all crossings between Israel and the Palestinian territories will be shuttered during Election Day. The IDF said that the closure will most likely be lifted on Tuesday midnight, pending approval from the defense establishment. The IDF said that entry permits may still be issued during the closure on a case-by-case basis, mainly for emergencies such as a need for urgent medical help. The crossings in and out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip will also be closed for Passover, the military added. Israel Police said Sunday they will deploy some 20,000 officers across 13,000 polling stations throughout the country. The police will also deploy 15 special teams, including undercover officers, at hundreds of polling stations where unusual events have been recorded in the past. Dig Deeper ‘‘Settlement Factory’s Palestinian Workers Print Israel’s Election Ballots’’ (Times of Israel) 2 Jerusalem Post Israel Warns of Consequences for Palestinian Actions at ICC Ties between Jerusalem and Ramallah will not be “business as usual,” in light of the Palestinian Authority’s successful appeal to have the International Criminal Court investigate Israel for alleged war crimes, a senior Israeli official said. “The Palestinian leadership has to understand there are consequences for their actions,” the official said. The remarks came a day after the Shin Bet confiscated PA Foreign Minister Riad Malki’s VIP border crossing pass, upon his return from a meeting at the ICC. Meanwhile, the National Security Council has made recommendations opposite to sanctioning Palestinian officials and blocking projects to further cooperation with the PA. One of the NSC’s three major recommendations is to “send a message to the world that there is an opportunity to renew negotiations with the Palestinians,” Channel 12 reported. Dig Deeper ‘‘Mother of Teen Murdered by Terrorist Speaks Out on ICC War Crimes Probe’’ (Jerusalem Post) Times of Israel Abbas Advisers Urge Statehood with ‘Soft’ Sovereignty Two of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s top advisers on negotiations with Israel urged in an editorial that Palestinians abandon their campaign for an independent state and instead aim for a “soft” sovereignty that would see Jordan and Egypt take over responsibility for border security affairs. Writing in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs magazine, Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi said that the normalization deals between Arab states and Israel require that Palestinians rethink their approach to obtaining peace and statehood. They argued that the pan-Arab confrontation with Israel was coming to a close with the agreements that had recently been signed between some countries and the Jewish state. In the meantime, the Palestinians, they warned, are being left behind. Both living in London, Agha and Khalidi have long been involved in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Dig Deeper ‘‘Former Top Saudi Adviser: No Israel Normalization Before Palestinian Statehood’’ (Times of Israel) Reuters Lebanon Crisis Escalates After Failure To Agree Government Lebanon’s financial crisis intensified after Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri publicly repudiated President Michel Aoun, saying the latter wanted to dictate cabinet membership and grant veto powers on policy to his political allies. After the latest of more than a dozen meetings with the president to form a new cabinet, Hariri called Aoun’s demands “unacceptable”. Hariri’s televised announcement dashed hopes for an end to five months of political deadlock between the two and a reversal of Lebanon financial meltdown. Lebanon has been without a government since the Aug. 4 chemical explosion that destroyed the port of Beirut killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and making 300,000 homeless. Aoun sent a list suggesting different scenarios for a cabinet of either 18,20 or 22 ministers, with names to be filled in, Hariri said. Dig Deeper ‘‘Arab League Urges Lebanese Politicians To End Political Deadlock’’ (Jerusalem Post) 3 Associated Press Saudi Arabia Offers Cease-Fire Plan To Yemen Rebels Saudi Arabia offered a cease-fire proposal to Yemen’s Houthi rebels that includes reopening their country’s main airport, the kingdom’s latest attempt to halt years of fighting in a war that has sparked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The move comes after the rebels stepped up a campaign of drone and missile attacks on the kingdom’s oil sites, briefly shaking global energy prices amid the coronavirus pandemic. It also comes as Riyadh tries to rehabilitate its image with the US under President Joe Biden. Saudi Arabia has drawn internationally criticism for airstrikes killing civilians and embargoes exacerbating hunger in a nation on the brink of famine. Whether the plan will take hold remains another question. A unilaterally declared Saudi cease-fire collapsed last year. Fighting rages around the crucial city of Marib and the Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes as recently as Sunday targeting Yemen’s capital of Sanaa. A UN mission said another suspected airstrike hit a food- production company in the port city of Hodeida. Dig Deeper ‘‘Saudi Arabia Proposes Ceasefire in Yemen, Houthis Skeptical’’ (Reuters) Reuters EU Sanctions Remain on the Table, Germany Warns Turkey European Union sanctions against Turkey remain on the table, Germany warned, after Ankara decided to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a pact designed to counter violence against women, and to close down the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). European leaders will discuss strained ties with Turkey at an EU summit later this week, with a view to updating a 2016 migrant deal under which Ankara curbed entries into Europe in exchange for EU financial support. Last year, the EU threatened Turkey with sanctions after tensions over a decades-old dispute between Ankara and Athens in the Mediterranean flared up again, but relations have since thawed and the EU has put sanctions plans on hold. Ankara’s decisions last week, however, dampened hopes in the 27-nation bloc for a stable trajectory towards better ties. Germany is seen as gaining most from an update of the migrant deal with Turkey, having seen an influx of 890,000 migrants in 2015, many of them passing through Turkey on their way. Dig Deeper ‘‘As Global Markets and Allies Reel, Turkey's Erdogan Looks Inward’’ (Reuters) 4 Yedioth Ahronoth – March 23, 2021 The Disease of Division By Yedidia Stern ● Israeli cohesion is gradually unraveling. In the past, in times of existential crises, such as wars and terrorist attacks, Israelis knew how to work together out of a sense of solidarity that overcame all their profound disagreements. The coronavirus pandemic, which exacted a higher toll than any of Israel’s wars, did not rouse the Israeli unity instinct, but quite the opposite: it worsened the divisions among us. The disintegration of the Israeli “we” is manifested in the current election. The many parties that will get into the next Knesset—the box of ballot slips awaiting us behind the screen will be more packed than ever—reflects the growing divisions in society.
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