JEWISH Opinion. Tradition. SOCCER THREE STAR ON SCENARIOS LOSING BEATING FOR ISRAEL MIRIAM EGYPT A2. A9. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2019 | 9 TAMMUZ 5779 VOL. XLV NO. 2413 Fury as 'Antisemitic’ Pence: ‘Iran Should Not Confuse Cartoonist Receives American Restraint Invite to White House With a Lack of American Resolve’ BY ALGEMEINER STAFF A slew of top US and Israeli officials addressed the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) summit in Washington, DC, on Monday. Speaking to a crowd of thousands at the annual gathering, Vice President Mike Pence hailed the US-Israel relationship, saying that the alliance between the two One of Ben Garrison’s cartoons showed reptilian hand marked ‘Rothschilds’ controlling the US national security establishment. Photo: Screenshot. BY BEN COHEN media over the weekend after he Anti-Defamation League as the US Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Conservative tweeted a picture of his invitation “blatantly antisemitic” creation of Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual meeting at One of the invited guests to the summit. “an artist known for cartoons with National Harbor near Washington, DC, March 1, 2019. to a White House social media Jewish groups condemning right-wing, anti-government and Photo: Reuters / Yuri Gripas / File. summit scheduled for Thursday is the invitation included the Los conspiratorial themes.” a cartoonist renowned for graphic Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Commissioned by the right- countries had “never been stronger” than during the past attacks on political opponents that Center, which declared on Twitter wing radio host Mike Cernovich two and a half years. have included antisemitic tropes. on Monday that Garrison “should as part of his campaign against Pence vowed that his boss, President Donald Trump, would “never compromise the safety and security of the Ben Garrison — a Montana- be shunned by the White House, Trump’s former national security Jewish State of Israel.” based cartoonist behind not honored with [an] invite to the adviser, Gen. H. R. McMaster, who On Iran, Pence said the Tehran regime “should not “Grrrgraphics,” a popular right- American People’s House.” was loathed by the president’s confuse American restraint with a lack of American resolve.” wing website which strongly Several of Garrison’s critics “alt-right” supporters, the cartoon “We hope for the best, but the United States of America supports US President Donald pointed to a cartoon he drew in depicted the US defense establish- Trump — caused a storm on social 2017 that was denounced by the Continued on Page A4 Continued on Page A3 Scandal at ShabbatCalendar Parshat CHUKAT Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 8:09pm | Shabbat Ends: 9:16pm פרשת חקת Berlin Jewish Museum P.O.B. 208 East 51st St, Suite 185 New York, NY 10022 page A8 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2019 The Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2019 Opinion. Three Scenarios for Israel’s Election Campaign ical arena with a new party called Democratic the Knesset. If they get there, the next coalition Israel. But the party is not the point. Barak is will have as its foundations a unified left and a SHANY MOR not running as a niche candidate or a single- unified center. Multiple scenarios are possible JERUSALEM issue tribune. He has a two-step plan to undo here. A religious party could be added. A the right wing’s ten-year-old majority in the minority government with Arab support could Knesset. The first step is to cause enough of be formed. Maybe one of the more moderate a stir that the two established parties of the parties that is part of the Arab Joint List breaks Election night drama usually ends in Zionist left, Meretz and Labor, find themselves off and joins the coalition. one victory speech and at least one gracious creeping closer and closer to the electoral In the Barak scenario — that is, when a concession. In the hours after polls closed in threshold (now at 3.25 percent). When this left-center government is formed — it’s not Israel back on April 9, television viewers were happens, they will presumably seek to unite even clear in advance who might be prime with Barak’s party into one unified list with minister. It could be Barak himself, or it could Voting station, in the northern Israeli city of treated to two competing victory speeches by Tzfat. Photo: David Cohen/Flash90. two competing electoral losers. Barak as its leader. No party organizations will be Gantz, depending on the distribution of Take two of Israel’s 2019 general elections be harmed in the process; the unified list will votes. The rotation agreement with Lapid like a duckling’s imprint, Barak’s long-ago status has barely gotten underway. The contours of be a technical one only. It will no doubt bear would likely have to be abandoned. It was only as Netanyahu’s commanding officer retains a both the campaign and the post-election coali- some anodyne vapid-patriotic name, but be really relevant for the scenario where a large lock on the Prime Minister’s psyche. Perhaps tion bargaining are already clear, and these publicly identified by its leader’s name more Blue and White forms a coalition with some the trauma of Barak’s 1999 defeat of Netanyahu are characterized by three brilliant maneu- than anything else. small satellites. It makes no sense when Blue (by a decisive 56-44 margin during Israel’s brief vers by Israel’s three most brilliant political Step two also requires a bit of panic and White is one-half of a joint foundation. experiment with direct elections) still stings. Or tacticians. Ehud Barak, Avigdor Lieberman, from Barak’s frenemies. In this case, it’s the With Barak as prime minister, Gantz perhaps pop psychology cannot and should and Benjamin Netanyahu each have a plan of already unified centrist list Blue and White, could be Foreign or Defense Minister — or vice not be forced to explain a keen and entirely action with a chess master’s confidence about the amalgamation of Benny Gantz’s new versa. The success or failure of this maneuver rational political instinct that transcends the everyone else’s subsequent moves. party (door prize to the first person who can doesn’t depend on the person filling the top nowism of pollsters. Devoted soccer fans often try to convince remember its name) along with Yair Lapid’s job. It depends on getting the right-religious The Lieberman Maneuver everyone else that a match can be a “beautiful Yesh Atid party and Moshe Ya’alon’s Telem bloc down from 65 to 60 or hopefully even 59. Avigdor Lieberman is the one man who game” despite the score being 0-0. It’s best to party. For Barak’s maneuver to work, Blue This is the overriding goal of Barak’s two-step engineered the crisis that dragged Israel into keep this in mind in assessing these maneu- and White needs to be so impressed with maneuver, even if his preference for being on a second election this year. His maneuver vers. Their brilliance, their cunning, their the Barak-led unified left list that they have top is undeniable. comes in two steps, too. The first was deployed careful construction are all worthy of admira- no choice but to effect a rightward shift and Whether Barak is genuinely a more to block a coalition deal from emerging in the tion by any political junkie. The three men begin eating away at moderate right-wing threatening rival to Netanyahu than any other Knesset just elected in April (even though who concocted them are among the best in voters. The most obvious low-hanging fruit are challengers is hard to determine. Polls, for the right-religious bloc had a clear 65-55 the field. But at least one, probably two, and the four seats picked up in the last election by what they’re worth, don’t give him any notice- majority). The second is in the time bomb he possibly all three will end up disappointed. Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu party. able advantage over Gantz (or Lapid or Peretz has set for his patron-cum-rival Netanyahu. The Barak Maneuver This maneuver succeeds not by growing or Livni) in a head-to-head matchup. What is The machinations actually have their Barak’s maneuver is straightforward Blue and White but rather by growing the entire undeniable, however, is that he alone scares start even earlier. It was Lieberman’s resigna- enough. He has reentered the domestic polit- center-left-Arab bloc. They were at 55 in the last Netanyahu — or, at least, knocks him off balance election. They need 61 to have a majority in in a way no other Israeli politician can. Perhaps, Continued on Page A3 Are US Detention Centers Concentration Camps or Not? the Nazis would physically and verbally abuse Individuals seeking entry into the United the them in public. The other is Bella’s description States are being held in claustrophobic facili- SIMON BUTLER of the extent of their treatment, during which ties for a seemingly interminable amount of Algemeiner Journal NEW YORK they were starved so thoroughly that they time. They need proper food, shelter, medicine, (USPS 927800) is published weekly could not determine what sex they were. and communication. Many are separated from (except for the week of Passover Reality, in this case, was even worse than their families. People have died. and Succos) imagination. Yes, people have died.