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Is Israel foiling Fatah-Hamas reconciliation?Khaled Abu Toameh - Jerusalem Post (quoting Al-Quds Al-Arabi) - Hatem Qafisheh, a senior Hamas official from Hebron who was briefly detained by the IDF earlier this week, said he and other Hamas representatives were warned by their Israeli interrogators not to strike any deal with Fatah. The interrogators told him he and other Hamas officials would pay a price if an agreement is reached between Hamas and Fatah. Bassem Za’areer, another Hamas official in the West Bank, said some of his colleagues received phone calls from Israeli intelligence officers warning them against taking parts in current efforts to end the Fatah-Hamas dispute. [bz]28/7/2020
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Hezbollah accuses Israel of fabricating border clashTimour Azhari - Al Jazeera - Conflicting versions abound regarding yesterday`s events on the Israeli-Lebanese border. According to the government of Israel, the IDF has successfully foiled an attempted border infiltration by a Hezbollah squad. PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ganz, habitually at loggerheads, were as one in condemning "the violation of Israeli sovereignty" and warning that Hezbollah was "playing with fire". On the other hand, Hezbollah denied that any such attempt was made and accused Israel of "attempting to create false victories". Hezbollah also noted that Israeli shells fired in response to the alleged infiltration smashed a civilian home in the Lebanese village of Al-Habbariyeh, narrowly missing a family in the house at the time. Hezbollah also declared it still intends to launch some kind of retaliation for the killing of a Hezbollah member in an air raid on Syria last week - a raid attributed to Israel, though not officially claimed. [ak] 28/7/2020
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Keir Starmer hints at Labour retreat on Israel sanctionsAsa Winstanley - EI - “Starmer’s jibe that the party ‘is under new management’ could have been just as much a reference to Labour’s increasingly right-wing approach towards Israel as much as it was about Russia. According to Labour Friends of Israel, Starmer thanked them ‘for the crucial role they play in the Labour Party’ and for ‘contributing to a balanced debate on the Middle East’” [ry] 27/7/2020
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Several violent attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters reported across countryThe Times of Israel - Man stabbed in south, group in Jerusalem said to beat up activists, man and son say they were pepper-sprayed near Tel Aviv; Gantz, Peretz decry violence, call to protect protesters [ry]27/7/2020
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Besieged Netanyahu announces virus handouts to all Israelis totaling billionsTOI STAFF - Times of Israel - Facing rising criticism over his response to the financial crisis touched off by the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced a new NIS 6 billion ($1.75 billion) financial aid package that will see the government cut a check to every Israeli. The plan will see couples with one child receive a one-time payment of NIS 2,000 ($583), which rises to NIS 2,500 ($729) for those with two children, and NIS 3,000 ($875) for those with three or more. Single Israelis aged 18 and over will each receive NIS 750 ($218). (rh)22/7/2020
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Netanyahu faces pushback over money-for-all coronavirus grants planReuters - Ynetnews - Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron tells Army Radio the government should focus on helping the poorest citizens instead of payments to all Israeli citizens, which PM say will bolster consumer spending. (rh)22/7/2020
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How Netanyahu lost focus, and his coalition lost control, in fight against COVIDHAVIV RETTIG GUR - The Times of Israel - The coronavirus pandemic arrived in Israel in mid-February. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed up to the task. He led regular televised briefings announcing each new stage of social-distancing restrictions. At his side, each time, were top officials of the state bureaucracy, especially the directors of the Health and Finance ministries, Moshe Bar Siman-Tov and Shai Babad respectively. Cabinet ministers, on the other hand, were nowhere to be found during the most dire crisis Israelis could remember. Then-finance minister Moshe Kahlon and then-health minister Yaakov Litzman (now the housing minister) openly admitted they were uninvolved, and seemed happy about that fact. (rh)22/7/2020
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Netanyahu’s Corruption Trial Resumes as Israel Faces Coronavirus Protests (VIDEO)Reuters - Palestine Chronicle - On Saturday, police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators around Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence. In Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial hub, thousands gathered to demand better state aid to businesses hurt in the health crisis. Bribery charges carry a sentence of up to 10 years in jail and/or a fine. Fraud and breach of trust carry a prison sentence of up to three years.(rh)22/7/2020
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Gantz pushing for halt to West Bank areas sovereignty plani24 News/Israel Hayom - Gantz said to prioritize health crisis response, improving infrastructure used by settlers and Palestinians Israel`s Defense Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz is pushing for a halt for Jerusalem`s plans to apply its laws to a number of West Bank areas, Israel Hayom reported Saturday. The newspaper cited two cabinet ministers as saying that Gantz wants Israel to focus on the health crisis it has on its hands, with new COVID-19 cases surging and tensions mounting over the government`s response to the pandemic. As far as sovereignty is concerned, however, the defense minister reportedly prefers an approach that would build up on the existing settlements and work to improve the living conditions for both Israelis and Palestinians. To this goal, Gantz seeks to prioritize developing infrastructure projects that would benefit both settlers and Palestinians living in the area, such as the local power grid and a waterway into the strategic Jordan Valley. [bz]21/7/2020
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Jordan could `look positively` on one-state solution if Palestinian-Israeli rights equalMichael Safi and Jassar al-Tahat - The Guardian - “The way we see it, anything short of a viable two-state solution is going to push not just Jordan, not just Palestine, not just Israel, but the region and the world into chaos,” he said in an interview in Amman. But in a sign of the ailing status of the decades-old two-state formulation, Razzaz said Jordan could view favourably the creation of a single Palestinian-Israeli state, provided it gave equal rights to both peoples. Israeli leaders have traditionally eschewed any kind of one-state solution, fearing that the Palestinian population would eventually eclipse the Jewish one and threaten Israel’s religious identity. But the idea has grown in popularity among Palestinian activists as the prospect of establishing their own state has dimmed. “You close the door to the two-state solution, I could very well look at this positively, if we’re clearly opening the door to a one-state democratic solution,” Razzaz said. “But nobody in Israel is talking about that, and so we cannot just sugar-coat what they’re doing. [bz]21/7/2020
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Israel supporter’s dramatic shift shocks establishmentAssociated Press - Ynet - Peter Beinart says after decades of settlement expansion on land claimed by the Palestinians and proposals such as U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan, a viable Palestinian state is impossible [ry] 20/7/2020
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Israel Is Trying To Provoke Iran To Start a WarMuhammad Sahimi - AntiWar - "The net result of Israel’s efforts to provoke a war with Iran is that the Iranian people must constantly wage battle in multiple fronts: against Iran’s hardliners; against the destructive effect of the US illegal sanctions and their effect on Iran’s economy and their daily lives, and against the threat of a war with Israel and/or the United States that no one in Iran, even the hardliners, want" [ry] 6/7/2020
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