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Israel and the Middle East News Update Israel and the Middle East News Update Wednesday, December 4 Headlines: • Blue and White, Likud Trade Blows After Fruitless Unity Talks • Lieberman to Join Right-wing Gov't if Gantz Doesn't Let PM Serve First • French Lawmakers Pass Resolution Calling Israel Hatred Anti-Semitism • Netanyahu, Pompeo to Meet in Lisbon this Week • After Netanyahu Indictment, Israel's AG Prepares for His Next Battle • In First, US Court Sentences Hezbollah Operative to 40 Years in Jail • Ex-Head of Israel Bar Association to be Charged with Bribery • Over 100 Jewish Graves Found Desecrated near Strasbourg Commentary: • Ma’ariv: “Netanyahu is Abusing the President’s Proposal” - By Ben Caspit, columnist at Ma’ariv • Al Monitor: “Israel's New Defense Minister Pushes Jewish Settlement in Hebron” - By Shlomi Eldar, contributor to Al Monitor S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace 633 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20004 www.centerpeace.org ● Yoni Komorov, Editor News Excerpts December 4, 2019 Ynet News Blue and White, Likud Trade Blows After Fruitless Unity Talks Likud and Blue and White traded accusations on Tuesday, after what appeared to have been an unsuccessful meeting aimed at narrowing the gaps on a unity government. The Likud and Blue and White leaders, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz respectively, met Tuesday afternoon in Tel Aviv in a last-ditch attempt to close the gaps on a unity government, with the two sharing a rotating premiership. The two met for about 45 minutes and did not issue a joint statement to the media after the meeting. The two biggest hurdles to overcome in reaching an agreement are the issue of who would serve as prime minister first in a rotation agreement and whether members of the other parties in Netanyahu's right-wing bloc would also be part of the government. See also, “No progress on unity as Netanyahu-Gantz meeting breaks up after 45 minutes” (TOI) Ha’aretz Lieberman to Join RiGht-winG Gov't if Gantz Doesn't Let PM Serve First Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman has told Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan that he would join a narrow right-wing government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the party doesn't agree to let Netanyahu be first to serve as premier in a rotation agreement. Lieberman's staff said on Tuesday that he was approached by Knesset members who asked him to enter a right-wing government to prevent Israel from going to a third election this year. Earlier that day, Lieberman said that Knesset members from his faction "are riling up against the conduct of Kahol Lavan…It's hard to rule out what's worse, an early election or a narrow government." See also, “2 Yisrael Beytenu MKs said pressing Liberman to join right-wing government” (TOI) Times of Israel French Lawmakers Pass Resolution CallinG Israel Hatred Anti-Semitism The lower house of France’s parliament on Tuesday approved a draft resolution that calls hate of Israel a form of anti-Semitism, drawing praise from Jerusalem and Jewish groups. The 577 members of the National Assembly voted on the draft, which also calls on the government to join other European nations in adopting the definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The resolution was backed by 154 lawmakers while 74 opposed it. The IHRA definition states that some forms of vitriol against Israel, including comparing it to Nazi Germany, are examples of anti- Semitism, though criticizing Israel’s policies is not. See also, “French Parliament Passes anti-Semitism Resolution That Includes anti-Zionism” (Ha’aretz) Reuters Netanyahu, Pompeo to Meet in Lisbon this Week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday in Lisbon, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday. Pompeo, accompanying President Donald Trump at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in London, will be in Lisbon on Wednesday and Thursday and will meet with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa and Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva, the department said in a statement. The hastily arranged talks with the top diplomat of Israel’s closest ally could be aimed at giving Netanyahu a political boost at home. 2 Ha’aretz After Netanyahu Indictment, Israel's AG Prepares for His Next Battle After announcing that he was indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery and then having to fend off attacks on the law enforcement system, Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit is preparing for his next battle: Choosing a replacement for State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan, who retires in less than two weeks. When there is an elected government, the state prosecutor is chosen by a search committee appointed by the justice minister and headed by the attorney general. Generally the political echelons allow the attorney general to appoint a person whose abilities he believes in and with whom he will be able to cooperate. But the current government is a transitional government, whose ability to make senior appointments is limited, and Mendelblit has said the law does not permit Justice Minister Amir Ohana to set up a search committee. See also, “Battle Of Wills Between Justice Minister & AG Over State Prosecutor Appointment” (TYW) I24 News In First, US Court Sentences Hezbollah Operative to 40 Years in Jail In a first, an American of Lebanese descent was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Tuesday for buying weapons and plotting attacks on behalf of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. Ali Kourani, 34, was found guilty in May of gathering intelligence on potential attack targets, including New York's JFK International Airport, a federal building in Manhattan, and even conducting surveillance of daycare centers. A federal court in America's financial capital convicted him of eight allegations including conspiracy to use weapons in a violent crime.Geoffrey Berman, attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the lengthy sentence sent an important message to Hezbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist organization. See also “Hezbollah member gets 40 years for scouting possible sites for terrorist attacks in New York” (Washington Post) Times of Israel Ex-Head of Israel Bar Association to be Charged with Bribery Prosecutors announced Tuesday they intend to charge the former head of the Israel Bar Association over suspicions he advocated for the judicial appointment of a woman with whom he was romantically involved. The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office said Efi Nave will be charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, pending a pre-indictment hearing. Eti Craif, a judge on the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court, faces charges of bribery and destroying evidence, also pending a hearing. Police recommended in September that Nave and Craif stand trial. Nave, who resigned as head of the bar association after his arrest at the beginning of the year, was one of the nine members of the powerful Judicial Appointments Committee. See also, “Efi Nave, judge to be indicted in sex for judgeship scandal” (JPost) Ynet News Over 100 Jewish Graves Found Desecrated near StrasbourG More than one hundred tombstones were found desecrated in the Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen near the French border town of Strasbourg on Tuesday. Anti-Semitic symbols, including swastikas, were found on at least 107 Jewish graves inside a cemetery located in Westhoffen, town leaders said in a statement. "This discovery comes as anti-Semitic graffiti was already found in the town of Schaffhouse-sur-Zorn", about twenty kilometers from Westhoffen, the statement added.Local authorities are currently conducting a preliminary investigation and collecting evidence inside the desecrated cemetery. 3 Ma’ariv- December 4, 2019 Netanyahu is AbusinG the President’s Proposal By Ben Caspit, columnist at Ma’ariv • We need to begin by correcting a mistake/lie that has begun to take root here: the formula that has been proposed by the Likud for an alternating premiership government is not the “president’s proposal.” If you were to take the president’s proposal for a walk to Balfour Street, introduce it to the denizens of the royal residence, strip it and abuse it—you’d get that formula. President Reuven Rivlin made two important matters clear in the course of a meeting he recently held with Netanyahu, Yariv Levin and Zeev Elkin. First, the timing of the beginning of incapacitation: according to the president’s proposal, the precise time is to be decided between the two sides, but will begin at some point between the attorney general’s decision to indict Netanyahu and the formal submission of the indictment. The attorney general has already decided to indict Netanyahu, and now he has 30 days to submit the indictment. In other words, Netanyahu’s incapacitation needs to begin within one month’s time at the latest. • Second, the powers: according to the president’s proposal, Netanyahu will have no powers whatsoever once he begins his period of incapacitation. He will receive honors, but he won’t make any decisions. He will bear a title (deputy prime minister), but won’t bear any burden of responsibility. Netanyahu and his men repudiated that. He will be deputy prime minister, a security cabinet member, will chair Likud faction meetings, will run the cabinet and, as usual, will sabotage Gantz behind his back. • Now to expand upon that a bit further: the dilemma facing Blue and White’s cockpit is one of the most complex dilemmas in modern Israeli politics. After I’ve become privy to all of the information, the considerations, the contemplations and the sophistry, it seems to me that the most likely possibility is as follows: Netanyahu has no intention of going into a state of incapacitation for even a single moment.
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