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Israel and the Middle East News Update Israel and the Middle East News Update Thursday, March 28 Headlines: ​ ● Egypt Urges Hamas to Show Restraint Ahead of Protests ● 14 Out of 15 UNSC States Condemn Golan Recognition ● US: UN Golan Force Has ‘Vital Role to Play’ ● Pompeo: Golan Recognition Will Promote Peace ● Rivlin: Israel is Jewish But Not Just for Jews ● Watchdog Links Gantz to Questionable Deal ● Disability Official Hits Likud Over Attacks on Gantz’s Sanity ● Eli Yishai Quits Election Commentary: ● Times of Israel: “Netanyahu’s Gambit: Annexation for Protection” − By David Horovitz, Editor ● Al Monitor: “Gaza and Blue and White Put Netanyahu on the Defensive” − By Mazal Mualem, Senior Columnist 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 ● Aaron Zucker, Associate Editor ​ ​ News Excerpts ​ March 27, 2019 Ha’aretz Egypt Urges Hamas to Show Restraint Ahead of Protests The Egyptian security delegation, which arrived in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening, urged the Palestinian factions, and in particular Hamas, to maintain restraint towards the end of the week and to prevent an escalation during the planned demonstrations to mark the anniversary of the March of Return along the Gaza border fence on Tuesday. The delegation, led by two generals, Ayman Badia and Ahmad Abdelkhaliq, have been holding intensive discussions with Israel and Hamas leaders to try and prevent the situation from further escalating. Jerusalem Post 14 Out of 15 UNSC States Condemn Golan Recognition The US was alone at the United Nations Security Council, as the 14 other member states condemned its recognition of Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights during an emergency meeting held late Wednesday night in New York. Just as the debate began, Israel launched an aerial strike against an Iranian ammunitions depot near Aleppo in Syria. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said, “no nation in the world would give up strategic land to its most dangerous enemy.” Associated Press US: UN Golan Force Has ‘Vital Role to Play’ The US said Wednesday the U.N. peacekeeping force on the Golan has “a vital role to play in preserving stability between Israel and Syria,” an assurance that the Trump administration’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the strategic plateau won’t affect its operation. Acting U.S. Ambassador Jonathan Cohen told an emergency meeting of the Security Council the force’s mandate to ensure that the area of separation between Syria and Israel “is a buffer zone free from any military presence or activities” is of “critical strategic and security importance.” Ha’aretz Pompeo: Golan Recognition Will Promote Peace Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s Golan decision will promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Pompeo made the remark during an appearance before the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee. He refused, however, to say whether the administration’s peace plan will include the creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel, and said only that the administration will offer “new ideas.” 2 Ha’aretz Rivlin: Israel is Jewish But Not Just for Jews Israel's President Reuven Rivlin said Thursday that Israel must be "a democratic and Jewish state - not democratic only for Jews" and warned there is no democracy without a free press. "In the era of social media and fake news, where every person becomes a self-proclaimed journalist, journalistic standards are critical," he said. Rivlin added that the mainstream media must maintain standards that have been abandoned - fairness, fact checking, proportionality. He added that when things are published without differentiating between what is true and what is false, between reality and imagination, free press cannot exist. Associated Press Watchdog Links Gantz to Questionable Deal An Israeli watchdog agency says it has found “significant failings” in the Israel Police’s dealings with a company reported to be a failed startup once headed by prime minister hopeful Benny Gantz. The State Comptroller said Wednesday that the police’s acquisition of nearly $14 million of technology from a company in 2016 violated standard procedures. According to the report, police waived a public tender and granted the unnamed company the contract. The report doesn’t specify the company or Gantz, but various Israeli news outlets identified it as Fifth Dimension, whose former CEO is Gantz. Jerusalem Post Disability Official Hits Likud Over Attacks on Gantz’s Sanity Likud campaign ads that seek to portray Gantz as mentally ill drew rebuke Wednesday, including from Gantz himself and from the State of Israel’s disabilities commissioner. It was not the first time Likud has raised hackles over campaign ads that appear to mock disabilities. “Over the past few days we’ve seen a worrying trend in the election campaign and in media discourse that will severely affect the equality of the disabled in Israel” after Election Day, disability equality commissioner Avrami Torem wrote in a letter to the chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer. Jerusalem Post Eli Yishai Quits Election Eli Yishai dropped his Yahad Party election campaign on Wednesday in what will be seen as the death knell for his political career. Yahad, which was only ever a political tool for Yishai to return to the Knesset after he stormed out of Shas in 2014, was consistently polling under the election threshold. In 2015, the party ran in a union with the far-right Otzma Yehudit and narrowly failed to make it into Knesset, receiving just under the 3.25% of the vote needed. 3 Times of Israel – March 27, 2019 Netanyahu’s Gambit: Annexation for Protection By David Horovitz, Editor ● Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s curtailed visit to the US was dominated by the escalation in violence spurred by a Hamas rocket attack early Monday that leveled a home in central Israel, and by the landmark White House meeting the same day at which US President Donald Trump formally conferred US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Somewhat overshadowed were comments made by Netanyahu pointing to his intention to permanently retain all or parts of the disputed West Bank. Behind the scenes at AIPAC, however, Israeli and American sources close to the two leaderships indicated that Netanyahu does indeed have partial annexation very much in mind if he is re-elected prime minister on April 9. ● Soon after the White House ceremony at which Trump signed a proclamation that “the United States recognizes that the Golan Heights are part of the State of Israel,” a jubilant Netanyahu told reporters that the US move underlined “a very important principle in international life: When you start wars of aggression, [and] you lose territory, do not come and claim it afterwards. It belongs to us.” Later, near the end of the journey home, he was more specific, telling the traveling press on his plane: “Everyone says you can’t hold an occupied territory, but this proves you can. If occupied in a defensive war, then it’s ours.” ● Immediately realizing that Netanyahu may have been citing Trump’s Golan recognition as ostensible justification for potential annexation in the West Bank — “occupied territory,” as Netanyahu termed it, captured “in a defensive war” — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hurried to clarify that the Golan Heights situation was unlike any other, and no precedent for further such steps. Asked at a press briefing whether the president’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan — where Israel had extended Israeli law in 1981, in a move tantamount to annexation — sets “a precedent that powerful countries can actually overtake land over international law,” Pompeo responded emphatically in the negative. “The answer is absolutely not,” the secretary replied. “This is an incredibly unique situation. Israel was fighting a defensive battle to save its nation [when it conquered the plateau in 1967], and it cannot be the case that a UN resolution [requiring that it relinquish the territory to Syria] is a suicide pact.” ● Nonetheless, the Israeli and American sources with whom I spoke set out a post-election scenario in which Netanyahu would indeed seek to annex at least the major settlement blocs — such as the Etzion Bloc, Ma’aleh Adumim and Ariel — and to do so, ideally, with some degree of American backing. In so doing, it should be noted, Netanyahu could consider himself to be drawing upon widespread Israeli support: A Haaretz poll this week found 42% backing for full or partial annexation of the West Bank. (This was broken down into 27% for full annexation, and 15% for annexation of Area C — some 60% of the territory. The poll did not ask respondents about the less dramatic annexation of only the major settlement blocs. Only 28% said they opposed any annexation. About a quarter of those polled were non-Jewish Israelis.) 4 ● Moreover, The Times of Israel was given to understand, the prime minister may seek to dangle the prospect of annexing the major settlement blocs — widely advocated in his Likud party and by parties to his right such as The New Right and the Union of Right Wing Parties — as an incentive for supportive MKs to ensure that his hold on the prime ministership not be curtailed by the imminent threat of criminal charges being filed against him. In other words, Netanyahu could explicitly or implicitly encourage MKs who want to see partial annexation of the West Bank to support legislation that would protect him from prosecution while in office. (Netanyahu is facing fraud and breach of trust charges in three cases, and bribery charges in one of them, pending a hearing.
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