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Israel and Middle East News Update Israel and Middle East News Update Thursday, June 17 Headlines: ● No-Confidence Vote Filed Against New Government ● Judges Reject Delaying Netanyahu Trial Until September ● Israeli Woman's UK Passport Lists Birthplace as 'OPT' ● Family Left in Shock by Shooting of Palestinian Woman ● Incendiary Balloons Spark Fires for Second Day in a Row ● New ICC Chief Prosecutor, to Decide Israel’s Fate ● Egypt, Jordan Hold Back in Congratulating New PM ● Peace Now Urges Conditioning of Military Aid to Israel Commentary: ● Yedioth Ahronoth: “The Big Experiment’’ - By Moshe Perl ● Yedioth Ahronoth: “The Budget Challenge’’ - By Gad Lor & Yuval Karni S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace 1725 I St NW Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006 The Hon. Robert Wexler, President News Excerpts June 17, 2021 Jerusalem Post No-Confidence Vote Filed Against New Government The first two no-confidence votes against the new government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett were filed. The Likud wrote in its no-confidence motion that “the government was formed with lies and tricking the public, and has no mandate from the public.” The motion was filed by Likud faction chairman Miki Zohar and will be presented next week by MK Ofir Akunis. A separate no-confidence motion, filed by Shas and United Torah Judaism, relates to matters of religion and state. The opposition also did not help the coalition pass the extension of an ordinance preventing family reunification of Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. The coalition needed right-wing opposition MKs because Ra'am (United Arab List) does not support the ordinance. But the Likud responded it would only help if the coalition would authorize outposts in return. Dig Deeper ‘‘New Coalition Unable to Extend Ban on Palestinian Family Reunification’’ (Times of Israel) Ynet News Judges Reject Delaying Netanyahu Trial Until September The judges in former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial rejected a request by his attorneys to delay proceedings until after the Jewish High Holidays in September, but did eventually agree to a three-week postponement. The judges ruled that the trial will continue as scheduled and even extended the deadline for prosecutors to hand over the material to the defense lawyers until July 20. After a subsequent appeal by the defense teams, the judges agreed to postpone for three weeks and the next session in the trial will take place on July 5. The material is believed to be key in Case 4000, in which Netanyahu is accused of conspiring with Shaul Elovitch, who at the time owned both the Bezeq telecom giant and the Walla! news website, to allegedly provide the former prime minister with positive news coverage in return for favorable legislation that would have been very profitable for Elovitch. I24 News Israeli Woman's UK Passport Lists Birthplace as 'OPT' A woman with dual British-Israeli citizenship who was born in Jerusalem said that her new UK passport listed her place of birth as the "Occupied Palestinian Territories," according to Kan. Ayelet Balaban, whose father is British, was born at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem. Balaban said that she applied for her new passport online and sent the old passport by mail on May 23, two days after the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas ended. I24 reached out to the UK Home Office, the ministerial department responsible for immigration, and a spokesperson clarified that it was a mistake. “We apologize for this error and are urgently investigating how this has occurred. We will contact Ms. Balaban about the issuing of a new passport showing the correct place of birth," the spokesperson said. Dig Deeper ‘‘Israeli’s New UK Passport Lists Birthplace as ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’’ (Times of Israel) 2 Associated Press Family Left in Shock by Shooting of Palestinian Woman Mai Afaneh appeared to have a happy family life and a fulfilling career. So when she left her West Bank home on Wednesday, no one thought anything was wrong. But a short while later, her family received the devastating news that she had been shot and killed by Israeli troops, allegedly after carrying out an attempted car-ramming attack. she became another statistic — the latest in a list of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military under unclear circumstances. The cases play out in a similar pattern. The army reports an attempted attack by a Palestinian assailant, usually acting alone and unaffiliated with any militant group. Then, it says troops “neutralized” the attacker. Some 20 Israelis have been killed in shootings, stabbings and car-ramming attacks since 2018, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry. Many others have been badly hurt. But not all cases are clear. Human rights groups say many of the attackers could have been stopped without killing them, and in some cases, have suggested innocent people were killed. Dig Deeper ‘‘Palestinian Attempts West Bank Car-Ramming and Stabbing Attack, Is Shot Dead’’ (Times of Israel) Times of Israel Incendiary Balloons Spark Fires for Second Day in a Row Firefighters battled four blazes in southern Israel that were sparked by balloon-borne incendiary devices launched from the Gaza Strip for the second day in a row. The fires, all located in the Eshkol region, were small and posed no risk to nearby communities, the Fire and Rescue Services said in a statement. Over 3 acres of lemon tree fields belonging to Kibbutz Nir Am were burned on Tuesday along with almost an acre’s worth of clementine trees, according to Kan. Wheat fields and tangerine orchards were also burned, with over 30 acres of land torched in total. The IDF struck Hamas military targets in Gaza in response to Tuesday’s arson attacks, which caused 26 fires in southern border towns. The retaliatory airstrikes were also the first since Naftali Bennett took over as premier. The Yamina chairman has long insisted that the IDF’s response to arson attacks should be the same as for rocket fire. Dig Deeper ‘‘Israel's Gaza Response Was Too Little, Too Late’’ (Ynet News) Jerusalem Post New ICC Chief Prosecutor, to Decide Israel’s Fate British-Muslim international lawyer Karim Khan replaced Fatou Bensouda, after the latter’s nine-year term as the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In Bensouda’s place, Khan will be left to determine Israel’s fate in the criminal probe that Bensouda opened in March. Bensouda’s decision to open a full war crimes investigation against Israelis relating to the 2014 Gaza war, the settlement enterprise and the 2018 Gaza border conflict came after a legal battle dating back to January 2015. The outgoing chief prosecutor also threatened Israel and Hamas with new allegations of war crimes during the May 10-21 Guardian of the Walls conflict with Gaza. Still, Bensouda had strongly hinted at the possibility of her office eventually closing the probe against the IDF on the grounds that the Israeli military performs its own investigations, however imperfect, of alleged war crimes. Views are mixed about what to expect from Khan. Dig Deeper ‘‘ICC Prosecutor Went After Israeli Settlements, but Not Cyprus’’ (Jerusalem Post) 3 Israel Hayom Egypt, Jordan Hold Back in Congratulating New PM Moroccan King Mohammed VI congratulated Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on taking office, becoming the first non-Gulf Arab leader to do so. In his letter, the monarch wished the new prime minister success and emphasized that the kingdom was "determined to continue its active role and its best efforts to advance a just and lasting peace in the Middle East." Bennett was also congratulated by Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Crown Prince of Bahrain Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. Several countries have so far held back from congratulating Israel's new leader, among them Egypt and Jordan. A senior official at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv explained to Israel Hayom that the delay did not stem from a deliberate disregard for the political change in the Jewish state. Similarly, a top official from Amman said: "During Netanyahu's 12 years in office, the relations between Israel and Jordan deteriorated in an unprecedented way, and there was quite a bit of bad blood between Netanyahu and King Abdullah II. The king has an excellent relationship with Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. One could go as far as to say that the two are good friends." He also pointed out that the Jordanian people are not keen on Israel or Bennett, "who they perceive as someone more radical than Netanyahu," but the government would offer its congratulations as soon as "the situation becomes clearer." Dig Deeper ‘‘Sudan Said Disappointed With Results of Normalization With Israel’’ (Times of Israel) Jewish Telegraphic Agency Peace Now Urges Conditioning of Military Aid to Israel Americans for Peace Now is calling for concrete conditions on defense assistance to Israel, a first for a group that calls itself “pro-Israel” and is a member of the Jewish community’s foreign policy umbrella group, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. “If the US wants to nurture peace and support international law, we must explicitly ensure that our taxpayer dollars serve our foreign policy objectives, that they do not go towards human rights violations, and that there are specific consequences if they do,” Hadar Susskind, the group’s CEO, said in an op-ed in Time magazine. “If new settlements are legalized or existing ones expanded — these international law violations would come with specific US aid reductions.” Until recently, assistance to Israel has been sacrosanct in the pro-Israel community and in Congress, even among Israel’s critics.
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