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Israel and the Middle East News Update Israel and the Middle East News Update Monday, August 19 Headlines: • Netanyahu Embarks on Two-day Visit to Ukraine • Trump Says He Will Release Peace Plan After Israel Elections • Tlaib’s Grandmother Wishes ‘Ruin’ on Trump • Bill Maher Slams Far-Left Dems for Backing BDS Movement • Lapid: If No Clear Election Winner, Likud MKs Will Abandon Netanyahu • Liberman Defends Proposed Vote-Sharing Deal with Blue White • Palestinian Authority on Verge of Explosion Commentary: • Times of Israel: “The Day Israel Humiliated Its U.S. Friends in Congress” − By Yossi Klein Halevy • NY Times: “Israel’s Alliance with Trump Creates New Tensions Among American Jews” − By Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth Dias 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 August 19, 2019 Ha’aretz Netanyahu Embarks on Two-day Visit to Ukraine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarked Sunday on a two-day trip to Kiev, Ukraine, where he is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and partake in a ceremony at the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial. Some political sources claim that Netanyahu's trip – which comes a month before Israel's September 17 election – is part of the premier's efforts to garner support among Russian-speaking voters, many of whom tend to back Yisrael Beiteinu's Avigdor Lieberman. See also, “Without Trump and Putin, Netanyahu Makes Do With Ukraine Campaign Stop” (by Anshel Pfeffer, Ha’aretz) Israel Radio News Trump Says He Will Release Peace Plan After Israel Elections U.S. President Donald Trump assesses that release of his peace plan will be delayed until after the elections in Israel, but says it is possible that parts of it will be reported before that time. Trump once again attacked the Democratic Party, saying it that it belittles Israel. It appears that the U.S. president is referring to the initiative that the House Democrats are formulating to act against U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, and possibly also against Israel ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer. Times of Israel Tlaib’s Grandmother Wishes ‘Ruin’ on Trump The Palestinian grandmother of US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib wished “ruin” on US President Donald Trump on Saturday after he mocked her relationship with her granddaughter on Twitter. “Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming,” Muftia Tlaib told Reuters. “May God ruin him.” The 90-year-old, who lives in the West Bank village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa near Ramallah, also reacted to the lawmaker’s canceled visit with disappointment and confusion. Tlaib had been granted permission to visit her grandmother on humanitarian grounds after she and Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday were barred from visiting Jerusalem and the West Bank. Tlaib changed her mind about the family trip hours after it was approved on Friday, citing its “humiliating” terms. Fox News Bill Maher Slams Far-Left Dems for Backing BDS Movement "Real Time" host Bill Maher spent part of Friday's show slamming the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it a "bulls--- purity test." Maher kicked off the show's panel segment by asking if it was "fair" to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel in wake of the clash between the Israeli government and pro-BDS U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., over their planned visit to Israel. The HBO star quoted BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti, who said, "No Palestinian -- rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian -- will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine." "So that's where that comes from, this movement. Someone who doesn't even want a Jewish state at all," Maher told the panel. "Somehow this side never gets represented in the American media. It's very odd." See also, “TLAIB CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF BILL MAHER SHOW AFTER HE SLAMS BDS” (JERUSALEM POST) 2 Times of Israel Lapid: If No Clear Election Winner, Likud MKs Will Abandon PM With a month to go until Israel’s repeat elections, opinion polls suggest the electorate could produce a repeat result, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again unable to form a majority right- wing/ultra-Orthodox coalition, any center-left-Arab grouping still further short of a majority, and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman again holding the balance of power. Yair Lapid, number two on the opposition Blue and White party list, foresees a different scenario, however, in which a repeat of the post-April coalition-building deadlock ultimately produces a different outcome — the Likud party dumping its leader and forming a unity government with Blue and White, without Netanyahu. In an interview with The Times of Israel, he claimed Likud will not tolerate a recurrence and are ready to abandon their leader if he cannot deliver a clear-cut victory. Times of Israel Liberman Defends Proposed Vote-Sharing Deal with Blue White Former defense minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday that his right-wing party would share votes with Likud’s chief rival for the premiership, the Blue and White party led by Benny Gantz. Liberman told the Kan public broadcaster that his willingness to share votes with center-left Blue and White was “a technical step only,” and not an ideological statement. Even so, such an agreement has the potential to decide a close race. Likud and Blue and White are neck-and-neck in most polls over the past month, and whichever party emerges the larger could win the first chance to form the next coalition. If the September vote gives both parties the same number of seats — as the April race did, with 35 apiece — the added seat a vote-sharing agreement could deliver from Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party could conceivably put Blue and White ahead, possibly deciding the election. See also, “The Technical Step That Could Decide the Election” (by Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post) See also, “Meet Israel’s New Kingmaker” (Foreign Policy) Yedioth Ahronoth PA on Verge of Explosion The diplomatic stalemate, the sense of international isolation and the intensifying economic crisis in the PA do not only worry the political echelon in Ramallah, but also the leaders of its security organizations. A classified Palestinian intelligence report written for the leaders of the Palestinian security organizations warns of a deterioration of the security situation in the West Bank and of a new wave of violence that will undermine stability if the political and economic crisis continues. The report noted that there was a generation of young people in the PA aged 16 to 25 who are filled with rage and afraid for their future. The report relied on many conversations with young people in the West Bank, as well as on monitoring their social media communications. The report’s authors discern increasing radicalization in Abu Mazen’s Fatah organization, because of the impasse in the peace plan and the battle against the US administration. This is evinced by more calls from Fatah officials to return to the armed struggle against Israel. See also, “Palestinian intelligence warns of possible violent uprising in West Bank” (Ynet News) See also, “Tlaib and Omar Barred From Israel – But a Conflagration is Coming” (by Neri Zilber, Daily Beast) 3 Times of Israel – August 16, 2019 The Day Israel Humiliated its US Friends in Congress By Yossi Klein Halevy • Last week, over 40 freshmen Democratic members of Congress visited Israel. It was the largest-ever group of freshman Democrats to come to Israel, and they came under the auspices of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington, AIPAC. By organizing the largest Democratic Party mission to Israel at a time of growing Jewish concern over anti-Israel voices within the party, the Democratic leadership was making a statement: Don’t let the fringes mislead you; we remain passionately committed to the Israeli-American relationship. • But with the Israeli government’s decision to deny entry into Israel to two anti-Israel Democratic members of Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (the latter ban partially walked back, to allow the Palestinian American congresswoman to visit her grandmother), one wonders how many of those members of Congress who came here last week would have come if the trip had been scheduled for next week. • I met with the group on its first night in Israel. Participants were exhausted but alert — politicians, after all, are used to being sleep deprived. For most, it was their first time in Israel, and they spoke of their excitement in being here, a place somehow central to their identity as Americans. One young member of Congress told me that two of his friends from college had “made aliyah” — he used the Hebrew expression — and he hoped to reconnect with them. There were African Americans and Jewish Americans and one Native American. Many were young. When they went around the room introducing themselves, there was warm applause over the group’s diversity. They were proud to be representing that America — an America where support for Israel is an expression not only of shared interests but of shared values. • House Majority leader Steny Hoyer, who led the delegation, opened the evening by sharing his love for Israel and for the Israeli people — their courage and resilience and creativity in the face of relentless threat. He spoke with the passion one expects on a Jewish Federation mission to Israel — not from a leader of a party many Israelis and Jews believe is increasingly inimical to the Jewish state. I felt privileged to eavesdrop on that intimate conversation of a Democratic Party leader with members of his faction.
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