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Bennett, Saar hammer out demands for unity gov`t with LapidMoran Azulay - Ynet - As Netanyahu`s government efforts seem to have hit a dead end, the right-wing lawmakers Bennett and Saar mainly focused on whether both right-wing lawmakers could join forces with the left-leaning elements of the anti-Netanyahu bloc — Labor and Meretz. They do agree on leaving an opening for ultra-Orthodox parties to join, or at least not oppose, their prospective coalition mainly through opting to leave status quo on state-religion affairs untouched. [bz]29/4/2021
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European Parliament condemns UNRWA for `hate speech and violence` taught in PA schoolsi24NEWS - The European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for "teaching hate and violence in Palestinian Authority schools" and called for financial aid be conditioned on "the removal of educational materials that promote hatred and incitement to violence". The resolution resulted from an intensive lobbying effort by IMPACT-se, a "non-profit organization that monitors the content of school textbooks" which denies being linked to the Government of Israel. [Of course, this non-profit organization never bothered to monitor the content of school textbooks used in Israeli schools - especially those of the Religious Zionist Educational Current, which enjoys complete autonomy from the Israeli Ministry of Education, and can define its own curriculum and textbooks, inspired by radical nationalist Rabbis. AK] 29/4/2021
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Aiming at Dimona? Syrian missile falls in the Negev Seth J. Franzman - Jerusalem Post - Sirens sounding at two in the morning caused a sleepless night in wide parts of central and southern Israel. The shadowy war where Israeli warplanes regularly target supposed Iranian targets in Syria, usually without meeting effective opposition, suddenly led to a Syrian missile flying all the way to the Negev in southern Israel and fortunately causing no casualties at its fall. The affair left many unanswered questions: Why did Israel`s anti-missile systems fail to intercept the Syrian missile? Why were the Patiot missiles - the oldest and least effctive part of Israel`s anti-missile system - used against it, rather than the more sophisticated interceptor missiles developed in the past decade? And was it a Syrian anti-aircraft missile which was shot at an Israeli plane, missed and then went on an erratic randon course? Or was its fall near Israel`s nuclear reactor at Dimona intended by the Syrians? [ak] 22/4/2021
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Possible next confrontation with the US: does Israel need the Jordan Valley?Lahav Harkov - Jerusalem Post - While headlines speak of Netanyahu`s displeasure about President Biden`s rapprochement with Iran, an even more fundamental disagreement might be brewing up over the Jordan Valley. Trump, during his presidency, supported Israel`s permanent possession of the Jordan Valley, and was even willing to endorse its formal annexation to Israel - but in the Biden Administration, "some security experts and non-experts who have access to the highest levels in Washington” believe that Israel can afford to give up this area, and should do so in the context of a future agreement with the Palestinians. Specifically, the Center for a New American Security has stated its opinion that elaborate technological solutions and foreign troops could take the place of Israeli troops on the ground in the Jordan Valley - and Hady Amr, an adjunct senior fellow at CNAS, has joining the Biden administration as US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs. In preparation for a possible future confrontation with Biden on this issue, former Israeli Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold published an extensive report reiterating the traditional Israeli position - going back to the Alon Plan of 1967 - that Israel must retain the Jordan Valley in order to have "defensible borders" and that the Israeli army must remain permanently deployed there, with or without a formal annexation. [ak]22/4/2021
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In First, Zionist Youth Movement in U.K. to Boycott Israeli AmbassadorJudy Maltz - Haaretz - Conservative (Masorti) Jewish movement Noam members are refusing to participate in an online conversation with Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the U.K., because of her political and religious views, and the adult partner organization is proud of them. [bz]22/4/2021
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Why is the EU helping to label Israel criticism as antisemitism?Ilan Baruch - +972 Magazine - Since the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) adopted its “working definition of antisemitism” in May 2016, various Israeli organizations have been promoting the definition with the aim of discrediting and undermining civil society work challenging Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Regrettably, the European Commission played into these organizations` agendas when it published a “Handbook for the practical use of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism.” While the handbook was published with the European Commission’s official logo, it was in fact authored by Germany’s "antisemitism czar" Dr. Felix Klein, who has been a driving force in Germany behind the political instrumentalization of the fight against antisemitism, particularly against groups supportive of BDS. Klein`s RIAS relied on a number of politically motivated stakeholders to produce its contents. One of the listed contributors is the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which publishes an annual list of the “Top 10 Worst Anti- Semitic Events.” However, this list often featured events that have little to do with antisemitism. For example, in 2015, the Wiesenthal Center listed the European Union itself as "antisemitic" for its decision to label Israeli settlement products... [ak]21/4/2021
“High-level” Israel lobby interference in British politics, says ex-ministerASA WINSTANLEY - Electronic Intifada - Duncan writes that Conservative Friends of Israel successfully vetoed his appointment as Middle East minister in 2016. Then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told him that Conservative Friends of Israel were “going ballistic” at the prospect, Duncan writes. “It is for no other reason than that I believe in the rights of Palestinians and it’s quite clear that they don’t,” he adds. “They just want to belittle and subjugate the Palestinians.” [bz]15/4/2021
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Israel appears to confirm it carried out cyberattack on Iran nuclear facilityMartin Chulov - The Guardian - Shutdown happened hours after Natanz reactor’s new centrifuges were started [ry] 12/4/2021
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From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s FutureRamzy Baroud - CounterPunch - “If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well as for the current PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, such a scenario is more dangerous than another strong Hamas showing in the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections” [ry] 12/4/2021
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Hamas: `No elections without Jerusalem`Middle East Monitor - Member of the movement`s political bureau Ezzat Al-Reshq said: "We insist that the Palestinian people in Jerusalem have the right to participate in the coming elections, as candidates and as voters, exactly as in 2006", adding "This is the unwavering position of Hamas towards the elections, which shall not be held without Jerusalem." [bz]8/4/2021
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Iranian vessel was struck by explosion in Red Sea as nuclear talks began, Iran saysKareem Fahim - Washington Post - The explosion bore the hallmarks of attacks in an escalating maritime clash between regional adversaries Israel and Iran. The incident occurred early Tuesday, at a delicate moment, as U.S., Iranian and European negotiators were preparing to hold talks in Vienna aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers. [bz]8/4/2021
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Israel is not in Trumpland anymoreItamar Eichner - Ynet - U.S. bid to rejoin Iran nuclear deal, ending sanctions on ICC officials and resumption of aid to PA are clear signs that Israel has lost its sway over American foreign policy decisions [ry] 5/4/2021
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Butler University blocks Angela Davis eventNora Barrows-Friedman - EI - "Under pressure from Israel advocates, Butler University in Indiana has decided to shut down a lecture with eminent scholar and activist Angela Davis. Students say that the event, which was scheduled for 1 April, was canceled without warning or discussion on 29 March" [ry] 5/4/2021
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Islamist who could hold keys to Israeli gov’t pleads for Jewish-Arab cooperationAARON BOXERMAN - Times of Israel - In rare primetime address, Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas says that ‘which unites us all is greater than what divides us,’ doesn’t endorse candidate for PM or mention Palestinians. And he urged Israeli politicians to extend an olive branch to his faction, intimating that a new reality had been created in Israeli politics — one in which Arab Israelis could play an active role in decision-making. [bz]1/4/2021
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Biden Plans to Repeal Trump-Era Sanctions on the International Criminal Court Robbie Gramer and Colum Lynch - Foreign Policy - The Biden administration plans to revoke a Trump-era executive order levying sanctions on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The expected move is likely to ease a state of open hostility by the U.S. government toward the Hague-based international tribunal, which clashed bitterly with the Trump administration over its efforts to investigate possible war crimes by American personnel in Afghanistan and Israeli security forces in the Palestinian territories. But it is unlikely to end tension between the court and the Biden administration, which, like prior administrations, contends that the tribunal lacks standing to prosecute Israeli and U.S. nationals. Neither country has ratified the 1998 treaty creating the international court. [ak]1/4/2021
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Ra`am leader Mansur Abbas to make statement as Ra`am split over Netanyahu alliance Hassan Shaalan - Y-net - Radically departing from the Arab parties` traditional support for the Center- Left in Israeli politics, Ra`am leader Mansur Abbas has not ruled out joining a Netanyahu-led coalition - provided that Netanyahu grants Ra`am`s demands. (Since neither PM Netanyahu nor his opponents have enough seats to form a government coalition, Ra`am`s four seats in the 120-member Knesset can tip the balance.) Ra`am demands a real government program to combat the crime wave rife in Israel`s Arab sector; abolition of the "Kaminitz Law" which was enacted to facilitate the demolition of "illegal" houses in the Arab sector; a legal recognition of the "unrecognized" Bedouin villages in the Negev, which are a major Ra`am electoral stronghold; and an abolition or major revision of the "Nation State Law" which entrenches Israel`s Jewish character and thus relegates Arab citizens to a second class status. However, many members of the Ra`am Party doubt that Netanyahu either could or would grant such demands. [ak]1/4/2021
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