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Qatar on the Brotherhood trailAhmed Mostafa - Al Ahram "Turkey’s military intervention in Syria and Libya would not have been possible without Qatari support, especially as Turkey is in serious economic difficulties. A few days before starting his tour, Al-Thani telephoned Erdogan to “discuss matters of mutual interest.” “It doesn’t need artificial intelligence to guess what those ‘matters of mutual interest’ are,” said one Gulf analyst in Dubai. “Erdogan is spearheading the effort to resurrect terrorism in Libya and bolster the so-called political umbrella of terror groups in the Ikhwan [the Muslim Brotherhood], and Qatar is still on its same old track of supporting and financing this,” he said." ca28/2/2020
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Airstrike Hits Turkish Forces in Syria, Raising Fears of EscalationCarlotta Gall - New York Times "The Turkish Army suffered mass casualties in an airstrike in northwest Syria late Thursday, an attack that could dramatically change the course of the Syrian war as fears grow of a direct conflict between Russia and Turkey, a NATO member." ca 28/2/2020
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Turkish losses rise in dangerous escalation over Syria`s Idlib Amberin Zaman - Al-Monitor "Speaking after an emergency national security meeting convened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, presidential communications director Fahrettin Altun pledged that Turkey`s soldiers would be avenged. "Our operations in the Syrian theater will continue until the blood soaked hands taking aim at our flag are broken. The decision to retaliate with far greater force against the illegitimate [Syrian] regime that pointed its guns at our soldiers has been made." ca 28/2/2020
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UN Security Council unanimously re-affirms two-state solutionIdan Zonshine - Jerusalem Post - “Council Members reiterated their support for a negotiated two-state solution… where two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders” was the text of the statement adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council, drafted by Belgium which holds the Belgium, which holds the council`s rotating presidency. “All parties should refrain from undermining the viability of the two-state solution in order to maintain the prospects for a just, comprehensive and lasting peace,” the statement added, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recently annention to build thousands more homes in East Jerusalem, in an area with an overwhelmingly Palestinian majority. There was no reference to US President Donald Trump`s proposed peace plan in the decision - neither to condemn it, as the Palestinians would have liked, not to endorse it as Trump and Netanyahu would have wanted. Though not explicitly referred to, the resolution clearly opposes extensive unilateral Israeli annexations, such as Netanayahu and ministers in his cabinet had promoted since Trump published his plan. [ak]25/2/2020
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Let’s do launch: Virus takes a backseat to violence, with rockets and airstrikes on the Gaza border flying almost as fast as the threatsJoshua Davidovich - Times of Israel/Israeli media overview - `Though the night passed “mostly quietly,” in the words of more than one Israeli report that ignore the noise made by Israeli missiles...` [bz]25/2/2020
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Sanders says AIPAC gives platform to ‘express bigotry,’ won’t go to conferenceEric Cortellessa - Times of Israel - “The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the Palestinian people,” Sanders tweeted. “I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights. For that reason I will not attend their conference. As president, I will support the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians and do everything possible to bring peace and security to the region.” [ak]25/2/2020
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US bars entry to researcher who exposes Israeli rights abusesMaureen Clare Murphy - EI - "The US has effectively denied entry to Eyal Weizman, founder of the research group Forensic Architecture. Forensic Architecture, based in the UK, uses groundbreaking methodologies such as digital forensics and spatial analysis to expose human rights abuses. The group has published several investigations concerning Israeli violations against Palestinians" [ry] 24/2/2020
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Pope appears to give thumbs down to Trump`s Mideast peace planPhilip Pullella - Reuters - “`Nor can we overlook the still unresolved conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, with the danger of inequitable solutions and, hence, a prelude to new crises` [Pope Francis] said" [ry] 24/2/2020
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Facing a Palestinian state, Arab Israelis find Trump`s Mideast plan unworkableLawahez Jabari and Saphora Smith and Freddie Tunnard - NBC News - "And now even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who in Washington last month heralded the peace proposal as a `historic breakthrough` — appears to have distanced himself from that section of the plan" [ry] 24/2/2020
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The Israelis who equate "peace" with total defeat of the Palestinians Orly Noy - +972 Magazine - Over the last week, pedestrians and drivers in Tel Aviv caught a glimpse of an especially disturbing billboard that had been posted across the city. The billboard, erected by the far-right group, Israeli Victory Project, showed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh blindfolded and on their knees on a backdrop of destruction. The caption read: “Peace is only made with defeated enemies.” By Sunday morning, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai had ordered the billboards taken down, saying the images “incited the kind of violence reminiscent of ISIS and the Nazis.” But what was actually disturbing about the billboard was not the incitement. Israel does not need cheerleaders when it comes to the violence it metes out against the Palestinian people. What is particularly nauseating is the way in which the billboard lays out for all to see the darkest, sickest aspects of Israel’s collective gaze vis-à-vis our neighbors. [ak]18/2/2020
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In Wake of Trump Peace Plan, EU Countries Pushing for Recognition of State of PalestineNoa Landau - Haaretz - Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has already discussed the initiative with the foreign ministers of Ireland, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Malta and Slovenia. In the wake of the initiative, Israel has conveyed messages to the countries sponsoring it that “this is not the time for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state,” because it would prevent “a possibility of direct negotiations (...)." [bz]18/2/2020
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Israel fears EU member states set to recognize PalestineItamar Eichner - Ynet - Jerusalem concerned that some European countries will trigger move in response to Trump plan, call for greater involvement in efforts to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict; EU foreign ministers set to meet Monday, could issue joint statement condemning U.S. blueprint for Mideast [ry] 17/2/2020
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Israeli racists unite against racismAli Abunimah - EI - "The group’s founder, Israel Ziv, is a general who is under US sanctions because the Treasury Department in Washington says he has been selling weapons to both sides of the bloody civil war in South Sudan" [ry] 17/2/2020
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Six countries to ICC: We are against Israel war-crime lawsuitsTovah Lazaroff - The Jerusalem Post - European support comes as union prepares to discuss Trump peace plan [ry] 17/2/2020
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US ambassador to Israel to lead committee on annexing the West BankMEE and agencies - US President Donald Trump announced the committee last month to implement his `deal of the century` vision [ry] 17/2/2020
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Christian Zionist archaeology: A tool of Palestinian subjugationMimi Kirk - Al Jazeera - Archaeological projects in Palestine led by US evangelical Christians contribute to Palestinian dispossession [ry] 17/2/2020
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Trump plan ‘legitimizes what is illegal,’ rewards occupation, Abbas tells UNTimes of Israel - liveblogging - PA president tells Security Council that US deal is ‘not just,’ seeks to impose terms, breaches international law, and is opposed around the world, but peace is still possible. [bz]11/2/2020
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Trump cuts off funding for Palestinian Security Forces from 2021 Amir Tibon - Haaretz - The Trump administration excluded funding for the Palestinian Security Services in its budget request for the 2021 fiscal year, after 27 years of bipartisan support and Israeli backing. Hitherto, all US Administrations have supported the PA`s security services, cooperation with which is considered by Israel as "a security asset, helping to thwart terror attacks in the West Bank". Moreover, in the early 2000s the Palestinian Security Forces were re-organized and trained under the direct supervision of an American general. However, since the Palestinians broke with Trump over his moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, Trump already exhausted all other available means of punishing them, such as cutting all civilian aid to the Palestinians, including to hospitals and economic projects in East Jerusalem. US funding the the Palestinian Security Forces is all that was left, and Trump decided to ax that, too. [ak]11/2/2020
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Odeh warns: Arab parliamentarians are not in Ganz`s pocketGil Hoffman _ Jerusalem Post - Joint List leader Ayman Odeh warned Blue and White leader Benny Gantz that Arab Knesset Members "are not in his pocket" and might not support his forming a government after the March elections. The Joint List did support Ganz after the September elections, but since then Ganz`s declared support of the Trump deal has created new difficulties. In order to keep the option of forming a minority government which would be supported from the outside by the Joint List, Ganz would have to rule out the two most offensive aspects of the Trump Plan: unilateral annexations on the West Bank, and the transferring of the "Arab Triangle" area to a supposed Palestinian sovereignty while depriving its inhabitants of their Israeli citizenship.[ak]11/2/2020
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Netanyahu: Israel drawing up map for West Bank annexationsReuters - Ynet - With elections just three weeks away, caretaker prime minister tells campaign rally in Ma`ale Adumim: `We are already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of the State of Israel. It won`t take too long` [ry]10/2/2020
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AIPAC apologizes for ad slamming ‘radicals in the Democratic Party’Omri Nahmias - The Jerusalem Post - According to Facebook, between 25 and 30 thousand people saw it and The American Israel Public Affairs Committee paid between $1,000 to $1,500 to promote it on the social media platform [ry]10/2/2020
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Former Air Force Secretary Pitches $100k ‘Shark Tank’ Swipes to Israeli Military ContractorsGrant Smith - AntiWarn - Virginia Israel Advisory Board confab entwines Israeli military contractors and DoD [ry]10/2/2020
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Kremlin: Trump plan has doubtful viability, is not in compliance with Security Council resolutions Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov - TASS Press Agency - There is a whole number of respective resolutions of the UN Security Council. It’s obvious that certain points of this [Trump`s] plan are not in full compliance with the UNSC resolutions. We see the Palestinians’ reaction, we see the reaction of the whole number of Arab states, which show solidarity with the Palestinians in opposing this plan. This certainly raises doubts over its viability. [ak] 4/2/2020
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The EU: Steps towards annexation could not pass unchallenged.Josep Borrell, EU High Representative on Foreign Affairs - European Union website - The EU recalls its commitment to a negotiated two- State solution, based on 1967 lines, with equivalent land swaps, as may be agreed between the parties, with the State of Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous, sovereign and viable State of Palestine, living side by side in peace, security and mutual recognition. The US initiative, as presented on 28 January, departs from these internationally agreed parameters. We are especially concerned by statements on the prospect of annexation of the Jordan Valley and other parts of the West Bank. In line with international law and relevant UN Security Council resolutions, the EU does not recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the territories occupied since 1967. Steps towards annexation, if implemented, could not pass unchallenged. [ak]4/2/2020
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As Israelis dedicated to a peaceful future, we oppose this Bantustan plan and call on the EU to strongly oppose it The Guardian - The Trump plan will not solve but deepen the conflict, engendering a degree of inequality not seen since South African apartheid. This is a Bantustan plan, caging the Palestinians into pockets of land controlled by Israel. Trump and Netanyahu are acting as two wolves negotiating how to eat a sheep. We are deeply alarmed by the EU’s weak response so far, framing the Trump plan as “an occasion” to relaunch peace negotiations. The plan is no such occasion, but a roadmap to apartheid 2.0. We call on Europe to reject Trump’s plan, and start taking serious measures against Israel’s annexation of Palestine – before it is too late.[Note: petition published before today`s EU statement. ak]4/2/2020
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