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February 20 2018 Israel and the Middle East News Update Tuesday, February 20 Headlines: • PM Confidant Offered Judge Top Job to Kill Case Against Sara Netanyahu • Ex-chair, CEO Among Detainees in Inquiry into Bezeq Probe • Police Chief Alsheikh Comes Under Fire at Knesset Discussion • US Ambassador: Settlement Evacuation Could Spark Civil War • Abbas to Urge International Involvement in Peace Process at UN • Senior Iranian Official: We will Level Tel Aviv to The Ground • UN Demands End to Targeting Civilians in Syria After 100 Die • Israeli Gas Company Announces $15 Billion Export Deal with Egypt Commentary: • Ha’aretz: “Unholy Trinity Brings Fire to Netanyahu's Door” - By Yossi Verter, political columnist at Ha’aretz • New York Times: “The U.N.’s Uncomfortable Truths About Iran” - By Nikki Haley, US permanent representative to the United Nations. 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 February 20, 2018 i24 News PM Confidant Offered Judge Top Job to Kill Case Against Wife A close confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is suspected of offering the position of attorney general to an Israeli judge in return for her killing the case into alleged improprieties in Sara Netanyahu's household spending. The details were revealed Tuesday morning by Israeli journalist Ben Caspit and partially confirmed by the police. According to the report, Nir Hefetz, a personal spokesperson for the Netanyahus, offered Hila Gerstel, a retired judge, the position of attorney general on the condition that she would use her new post to close the case against the prime minister's wife. See also, “Netanyahu Confidant Suspected of Offering Judge Top Post to Nix Case Against Sara Netanyahu” (Ha’aretz) Reuters Ex-chair, CEO Among Detainees in Inquiry into Bezeq Probe Israeli police on Tuesday named the CEO and former chairman of Bezeq among the suspects arrested this week after the markets watchdog uncovered new evidence in an investigation into the country’s largest telecom group. The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) has been investigating Bezeq over possible fraud and financial reporting offences. Israeli media reported investigators were now looking into allegations that Bezeq received benefits in return for enabling favorable media coverage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While the arrests were announced on Sunday, the suspects’ identities were covered by a gag order until now. Police said Bezeq’s controlling shareholder and former chairman Shaul Elovitch, his wife and son are being held as is Bezeq CEO Stella Handler. See also, “Netanyahu's troubles deepen as Israeli police arrest confidants” (CNN) Ynet News Police Chief Alsheikh Comes Under Fire at Knesset Discussion Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh came under bipartisan fire on Tuesday morning during a meeting of the Knesset's Internal Affairs Committee on his claims that "powerful" elements hired private investigators against police officers investigating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich was the first to slam Alsheikh, telling him: "The interview you gave (the investigative TV show) Uvda was completely unacceptable. This interview is like a car accident. Your job is not to hand out grades to the prime minister. You should've apologized." Likud MK Miki Zohar said he, along with Smotrich, asked for the hearing because he felt "the police's conduct with regards to the investigations of the prime minister is unprofessional, not objective, and improper." Jerusalem Post US Ambassador: Settlement Evacuation could Spark Civil War A forced evacuation of West Bank settlements could spark a civil war in Israel, US Ambassador David Friedman told Jewish American leaders in Jerusalem, according to a report on Channel 10 news. The ambassador spoke on Tuesday at a private off the record briefing to a mission to Israel by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations. Friedman’s comments about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were reported in Hebrew by journalist Barak Ravid, both on air and on his twitter feed. Friedman told the Jewish mission that this was his personal belief as well, particularly given the increasing number of national-religious officers who hold command positions in the IDF. 2 Ynet News Abbas to Urge International Involvement in at the UN Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will urge world powers at the UN Security Council on Tuesday to stand up to the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and establish a revamped peace process. President Donald Trump's decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem infuriated the Palestinians who declared that the United States could no longer play a role as lead mediator in the Middle East peace process. The stage will be set for a tense face-off with US Ambassador Nikki Haley, just weeks after she launched a scathing attack on Abbas and accused him of lacking the courage needed for peace. Abbas "will say that after the 6th of December with regard to Jerusalem, that now is the time for a collective approach," Mansour told AFP. See also, “ Abbas to urge alternative to US as peace mediator in UN speech” (Times of Israel) Times of Israel Senior Iranian Official: We will Level Tel Aviv to The Ground Any attacks carried out against Iran will result in the destruction of Tel Aviv, Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Expediency Council, warned Israel on Monday, according to the Fars News Agency. Quoted by Iran's semi-official government news site, Rezaei, in response to Netanyahu's comments at the Munich Security Conference, asserted that "If they [Israel] carry out the slightest unwise move against Iran, we will level Tel Aviv to the ground and will not give any opportunity to Netanyahu to flee." "The US and Israeli leaders don't know Iran and don't understand the power of resistance and therefore, they continuously face defeat," he was quoted as saying in an interview with Lebanese Hezbollah- affiliated Al Manar News. "Today, the situation of the US and Israel indicate their fear of the Zionist regime's collapse and the US decline," he added in the interview. i24 News UN Demands End to Targeting Civilians in Syria After 100 Die The UN has demanded an end to the targeting of civilians in Syria after a heavy bombardment killed at least 100 civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, as regime forces appeared to be preparing for an imminent ground assault.The escalation came as pro-government forces were also expected to enter the northern Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin, to take a stand against a month-old Turkish assault.Held by rebels since 2012, Eastern Ghouta is the last opposition pocket around Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad has deployed reinforcements in an apparent concerted effort to retake it.As a barrage of air strikes, rocket fire and artillery slammed into several towns across Eastern Ghouta on Monday, the United Nations warned that the targeting of civilians in Eastern Ghouta "must stop now. See also, “Syria war: Scores of civilians killed in Eastern Ghouta strikes” (BBC) Chron Israeli Gas Company Announces $15 Billion Deal with Egypt An Israeli energy company on Monday announced a $15 billion deal to supply natural gas to Egypt, in the largest export agreement to date for Israel's nascent natural gas industry. Delek Drilling and its U.S. partner, Noble Energy, signed a deal to sell a total of 64 billion cubic meters of gas over a 10-year period to Egyptian company Dolphinus Holdings. Yossi Abu, chief executive of Delek Drilling, called the deal "great news" for both countries. See also, “Delek, Noble sign $15b gas deal with Egyptian co” (Globes) 3 Ha’aretz– February 20, 2018 Unholy Trinity Brings Fire to Netanyahu's Door By Yossi Verter, political columnist at Ha’aretz • Bezeq's controlling shareholder, Shaul Elovitch, Communications Ministry Director General Shlomo Filber, and media consultant Nir Hefetz have spent the past two freezing February nights in the damp, stinking and unheated cells of a police lock-up. Detectives from the Lahav 433 investigation unit are convinced that this unholy trinity was involved in bribery worth millions that dwarf what was allegedly going on in Case 1000, the lavish gifts affairs, and Case 2000, the Yedioth Ahronoth quid-pro-quo affair. The police have lots of evidence including various kinds of correspondence and perhaps even secret recordings that are bringing the fire closer to the door of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. • Still, they will try to persuade one or two of the three suspects to cross the line and turn state’s evidence. The traumatic experience of detention is aimed at speeding up the process. The police know how to be cruel: They’ve also arrested Elovitch’s wife and son. Elovitch himself is suspected of receiving hundreds of millions of shekels in benefits from then-Communications Minister Netanyahu in exchange for turning the Walla news website into the online version of Israel Hayom – a proven Netanyahu organ. • Elovitch, Netanyahu’s close friend; Filber, a political ally for 20 years and an executor of Netanyahu’s decisions; and Hefetz, whose hands were all over everything as an adviser, a “fixer,” the de facto editor of Walla and Netanyahu’s candidate to be the link between himself and Yedioth owner Arnon Mozes, as revealed in the tapes from Case 2000 – each of these people separately and all of them together hold pieces of the puzzle. • Netanyahu’s sick obsession with “the media” – his uncontrollable urge to subordinate it to his agenda, to educate it and shape it in his image and the image of his wife in her ongoing search for respect – drove him crazy.
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