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Key stories in the media:
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All media highlighted what many of them call a Qfrontal
confrontationQ between PM Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack
Obama over the planned construction of some 20 apartments for Jewish
residents in the Shepherd Hotel, in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah
neighborhood. Media reported that the State Department summoned
IsraelQs new Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren. HaQaretz also
reported that local British diplomats have recently asked their U.S.
colleagues to pressure Israel to cancel planned work at the site.
HaQaretz reported that American sources have informed both Israel
and the PA that the U.S. views East Jerusalem as no different than
an illegal West Bank outpost with regard to its demand for a freeze
on settlement construction. The U.S. has demanded that the project
be halted, but during yesterdayQs cabinet meeting, PM Benjamin
Netanyahu noted that "Israel will not agree to edicts of this kind
in East Jerusalem." "United Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish
people in the State of Israel, and our sovereignty over the city is
not subject to appeal," he continued. "Our policy is that Jerusalem
residents can purchase apartments anywhere in the city. This has
been the policy of all Israeli governments. There is no ban on
Arabs buying apartments in the west of the city, and there is no ban
on Jews building or buying in the city's east. This is the policy
of an open city.Q The media quoted Netanyahu as saying that the U.S.
has crossed a red line, especially after he told the President that
he will not make concessions on Jerusalem. Major media reported
that Netanyahu told the cabinet that he was QsurprisedQ by U.S.
pressure over the East Jerusalem project. The Jerusalem Post
reported that senior Israeli diplomatic officials told the daily
yesterday that JerusalemQs decision to leak to the media U.S.
displeasure at the plan to build the apartments in East Jerusalem
was designed to clarify to the Americans that construction in the
capital should not be lumped together with any limitations Israel
may agree to on building in the settlements. Maariv quoted an
Israeli diplomat as saying that U.S.-Israel relations are Qbleak and
devoid of trust.
Yediot (Shimon Shiffer) reported that, following NetanyahuQs
statements, a senior source in the State Department said to the
newspaper: QWe expect all parties to honor their commitments, and
this means that Israel has to stop construction in sensitive areas,
including East Jerusalem. The President and the Secretary of State
have made this clear to the Israeli government both publicly and
privately. This kind of activity has to stop. Our policy on the
matter of Jerusalem has not changed. The status of Jerusalem will
be determined in the negotiations on a final status arrangement.
This has been agreed upon by Israel and the Palestinians.Q Shiffer
also cited the belief sources close to the PM that in the past few
weeks, the U.S. administration has lost the momentum with which it
embarked on solving the worldQs problems and the intricate Middle
East issues. Yediot quoted senior sources in NetanyahuQs bureau as
saying that ObamaQs Cairo speech does not lead to creating a
different reality.
The Jerusalem Post and Israel Radio quoted Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton as saying in Delhi yesterday that the U.S.
administration is trying to reach an agreement with Israel on
settlements.
Yesterday Yediot reported that officials in Washington have reached
the conclusion that if they want to move forward with the peace
process, it would be better to apply pressure on Jerusalem rather
than on the Palestinians to start the final-status negotiations as
quickly as possible. According to the newspaper, Special Envoy
George Mitchell intends to present a timetable for the resumption of
the talks during his upcoming visit. Yesterday Maariv reported
that, in light of the chilly relations between Israel and the U.S.,
Mitchell has put off his arrival in Israel, which had been scheduled
for today, until next Monday.
Maariv reported that U.S. National Security Advisor General James
Jones is expected to visit Israel but that he will not discuss the
settlement issue.
As Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to arrived in Israel
next week for talks on TehranQs nuclear program, The Jerusalem Post
reported that a senior U.S. defense official has told the daily that
an Israeli strike on Iran could be profoundly destabilizing and
would affect U.S. interests. The official reportedly warned that
Israel needed to take its relationship with America into account in
contemplating any such attacks.
Israel Radio quoted the East Jerusalem daily Al-Quds as saying,
based on Washington sources, that the U.S. administration might let
Israel build hundreds of housing units in the settlements in
exchange for Israeli recognition of permanent borders to be
determined by the administration. Al-Quds reportedly wrote that the
administration wants mandatory referenda on the issue to be held in
Israel and the PA.
The media reported that yesterday, in a briefing to the cabinet
meeting, Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin dismissed HamasQs endeavor to
appear more moderate. HaQaretz and other media reported that PM
Netanyahu rebuked Diskin for commenting on political issues.
The Jerusalem Post reported that, Qin what could be the largest
one-time easing of restrictions on Palestinians,Q the IDF is
considering a list of gestures ahead of Ramadan, including the
removal of over 100 dirt roadblocks throughout the West Bank.
Yesterday the newspaper reported that Obama administration officials
have praised Netanyahu for steps he has taken to ease the condition
of Palestinians.
Leading media quoted former PM Ehud Olmert as saying in a Washington
Post op-ed piece that the U.S.-Israeli understandings on settlements
were a prerequisite for the Annapolis process and that the U.S.
focus on the issue is Qnot useful.
Yesterday The Jerusalem Post reported that Ambassador Michael Oren
is reaching out to the Jewish Left.
The Jerusalem Post quoted Claude Gueant, Secretary-General of the
Elysee Palace, as saying yesterday on the French radio station
Europe 1 that Syrian President Bashar Assad has promised to secure
the release of Gilad Shalit.
The media reported that yesterday the Ministerial Committee for
Legislation passed a revised bill for the so-called Nakba Law, which
calls for prohibiting government bodies from funding any activity
that could undermine the foundations of the state or contradict its
basic values. The original bill banned individuals from marking
Israel's Independence Day as a day of mourning or sadness. Had that
bill passed, offenders could have been imprisoned for up to three
years.
HaQaretz reported that Kadima Knesset Member Shaul Mofaz is
positioning himself to challenge his partyQs chair Tzipi Livni again
for the leadership of his party.
Yediot reported that Swiss FM Micheline Calmy-Rey told AFP that
Hamas is a key player in the Middle East and that it cannot be
ignored.
The Jerusalem Post reported that a Judea and Samaria [i.e. West
Bank] Police source told the newspaper yesterday that police have
carried out a wide-ranging probe into suspicions that the World
Zionist OrganizationQs Settlement Division Department illegally
transferred Palestinian-owned land to the veteran Ofra settlement.
HaQaretz carried a similar story.
HaQaretz reprinted a Daily Forward article on an anti-Semitic speech
to the convention of the Islamic Society of North America, which has
QmarredQ interfaith endeavors.
Yesterday HaQaretz quoted a GOI source in Jerusalem as saying that
UNIFIL had precise information bout an explosives cache that
exploded in a southern Lebanese village last Tuesday and about a
number of other installations where Hizbullah is storing rockets,
but that UNIFIL had done nothing about it. The Jerusalem Post
reported that, ahead of the renewal of UNIFILQs mandate this summer,
the Defense Ministry is hoping that the UN will issue new rules of
engagement for the peacekeeping force that will enable it to search
Lebanese villages without prior coordination with the Lebanese Armed
Forces.
The Jerusalem Post reported that yesterday senior PA negotiator Saeb
Erekat played down a recent meeting with Iranian FM Manouchehr
Mottaki in Sharm el-Sheikh. The newspaper cited the GOIQs anger
over the meeting.
Maariv reported that the Beersheva District court sentenced a
15-year-old would-be suicide bomber from Beit Hanun (northern Gaza)
to 10 yearsQ imprisonment.
The Jerusalem Post reported that yesterday Dov Weisglass, bureau
chief of former PM Ariel Sharon, firmly denied allegations raised
last week by estranged senior PLO figure Farouk Qaddoumi that Sharon
and PA President Mahmoud Abbas conspired to kill Yasser Arafat. The
newspaper reported that yesterday the PA announced that Al
Jazeera-TV would be allowed to resume works in the West Bank. The
station had broadcast QaddoumiQs allegations.
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Leading media reported that an organization of Iraqi Jews in Israel
is organizing QrootsQ trips to northern Iraq. Yesterday Yediot
reported that an Al-Qaida Web site has threatened would-be Israeli
tourists.
HaQaretz cited data collected over the past two weeks by the NGO
Hotline for Migrant Workers that, out of 221 people who appeared
before the custody tribunal after being detained over the past two
weeks by the Immigration Authority's Oz unit, 65 percent are
asylum-seekers from Sudan and Eritrea who cannot be deported and
have been released by the tribunal judge. The figures reportedly
show that another 16 percent of those detained came to Israel
legally and lost their residency status because they left their
employer. These figures contrast with statements by the Oz unit
that it detains only illegal residents, and holds refugees with
proper documentation only in order to take them to the area where
they are permitted to live, beyond the central coastal plain
region.
The media quoted Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz as saying that
former Shas leader Aryeh Deri may have to wait for another year
until he can return to politics.
Maariv and The Jerusalem Post reported that yesterday Israel
extradited Micky Louis Mayon, an American citizen who is wanted for
many federal crimes, among them membership in the Ku Klux Klan,
burning federal judges' cars, and several other charges of severe
violence.
All media reported that Meir Amit, who headed IDF Intelligence and
Mossad in the Q60s and served as a centrist cabinet minister in the
Begin government in the late Q70s, died on Friday at the age of 88.
The media mark 40 years of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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¶I. "His Jerusalem"
Senior columnist Nahum Barnea wrote on page one of the
mass-circulation, pluralist Yediot Aharonot (7/20): QTorn between
the pressures from Washington and the pressures from the right wing
branch of his party and his coalition, Netanyahu chose the easy
solution: Jerusalem. Like then, in the Western Wall tunnel affair,
he thinks that the magic word QJerusalemQ will rally behind him not
only the right wing in Israel, but also the political center in
Israel, a majority of U.S. Jewry and a majority of the members of
Congress. In other words: He wishes to divert the clash with the
Obama administration from the question of construction in the
settlements, where he does not enjoy real support, either here or
there, to a more convenient playing field. This could have been
brilliant if it were not so transparent.... The blame for the
deterioration [in U.S.-Israeli relations] can be pinned on the
statements made by Obama and Clinton. It can be pinned on the
statements made by Netanyahu and Lieberman. The question of who is
to blame is less important than the question of what should be done
now. Netanyahu gave the signal yesterday: The clash is to be
escalated. In two or three weeks, when he becomes alarmed and wants
to get down from his high horse, he will discover that the guys from
the Likud are waiting for him below.
II. "Taking the Offensive"
Diplomatic correspondent Ben Caspit wrote on page one of the
popular, pluralist Maariv (7/20): QAfter four months of playing
defense, Benjamin Netanyahu took the offensive yesterday for the
first time. Until now, it was a one-sided game. Suddenly, for a
moment, it looks balanced.... NetanyahuQs move yesterday was a wise
tactical move. Obama backed him into a corner with the settlements?
So Netanyahu, with a maneuver of his own, takes him into the
opposite corner, with Jerusalem. Just as the settlements are a
consensus in the U.S. and around the world, Jerusalem is a consensus
in Israel and within the Jewish people.
Finally, something that is truly worth fighting over. Both of
them, Obama and Netanyahu, now hold each other by a sensitive place.
Now we will see whether Obama is a real man -- whether he really
intends to take this to the end. The question is what we will do if
we find, disastrously, that Obama is serious, that he will take it
to the end. In this case, this may be the end of us.... Netanyahu
is playing poker with Obama without a real hand. He is merely
playing with the semblance of one. It takes a great deal of courage
and composure to manage such a crisis. Until now, Netanyahu has not
conducted the crisis wisely. He identified it belatedly, responded
belatedly, folded and buried his head in the sand.
III. "Playing with Fire"
The independent, left-leaning Ha'aretz editorialized (7/20): QU.S.
President Barack Obama's opposition should not have surprised
Netanyahu [regarding construction in East Jerusalem].... Jerusalem
is one of the most sensitive issues in the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Particularly infuriating is the government's claim that Israel is
allowing the Arabs of East Jerusalem to settle in Jewish
neighborhoods.... Construction for Jews in East Jerusalem is
inflicting tremendous diplomatic damage on Israel. Netanyahu and
Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat are playing with fire under the
transparent cover of "normal authorization for private
construction." Freezing construction at Shepherd Hotel is no less
essential than evacuating the outposts and freezing settlement
construction beyond the capital's municipal area.
IV. "Forget Jerusalem"
Political commentator Shalom Yerushalmi wrote in Maariv (7/20):
QLarge peripheral neighborhoods [of East Jerusalem] can be conceded
and handed over to Palestinian sovereignty, but since the entire
peace process is treading water, Jewish construction will yet reach
there too and render even this partitioning impossible. In the
situation that has arisen, Jews cannot be evacuated from the Arab
neighborhoods, and the same is true for Arabs who have bought houses
by various means in Jewish neighborhoods. All the right wing
parties -- Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu, Shas, United Torah Judaism, the
National Union, and the Jewish Home -- are adamantly opposed to
partitioning Jerusalem. Yesterday, Kadima Knesset Member Yoel
Hasson told me: QJerusalem cannot be partitioned, even at the cost
of not having an agreement with the Palestinians.Q We are left with
parts of the Labor Party, Meretz, and the Knesset members from the
Arab parties, who support partitioning the city. The meaning is
clear: On the topic of Jerusalem, the U.S. is getting into a
confrontation with a majority of the public in Israel. Whoever
dreams of peace under these conditions can continue to dream.
¶V. QJust Because He Can
The nationalist, Orthodox Makor Rishon-Hatzofe editorialized (7/20):
QU.S. President Barack Obama is going on with the foreign policy he
initiated when he was sworn in. There is a global problem called
the Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria [i.e. the West Bank].
Nothing else will directly determine the future of the world, for
good and for evil. It isnQt Barack Obama who is to blame alone. In
this situation, it is Israel, which has long lost its military
deterrence and its diplomacy; it is a doormat trodden upon by
friends and foes alike. In the Middle East -- Obama learned this
very quickly -- it pays to join the camp of the strong. Israel has
long been left out of that camp.
VI. QWho Is a Self-Hating Jew?
Senior op-ed writer Akiva Eldar commented in the independent,
left-leaning Ha'aretz (7/20): QAny child knows that everything is
the fault of other Jews: Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, two
American administration officials who are inciting President Barack
Obama against their own people [sic]. We want our Jews in the
administration to be blind to the settlements and deaf to the
complaints of the Arabs. Obama has internalized what his
predecessors refused to understand: the traditional supporters of
the Israeli right are growing old, or losing their relevance. They
are giving way to younger, liberal forces that identify with Obama's
values. In the QbestQ case, Netanyahu's incitement against the
Qself-hating JewsQ will do to them what his whispered comment in the
ear of Rabbi Kaduri Qthose leftists are not JewsQ did to Israelis a
decade ago -- it turned them against him.
VII. QIsraelQs New National Consensus
The Director of the Interdisciplinary Center's Global Research in
International Affairs Center, columnist Barry Rubin, wrote in the
conservative, independent Jerusalem Post (7/20): QIf Israel gets
what it requires -- and what successful peace requires --- [i.e.
strong security and diplomatic guarantees] it will accept a
two-state solution, [and] a Palestinian Arab Muslim state (the
Palestinian Authority's own definition) alongside a Jewish state,
living in peace. Part of the new thinking is to understand that
precise borders and East Jerusalem's status, while important, are
secondary to these basic issues. If those principles are resolved,
all else can follow. This new posture is not one of desperately
asserting Israel's yearning for peace but rather saying: We're
serious, we're ready, we're not suckers but we're not unreasonable
either. We want peace on real terms, not just more unilateral
concessions and higher risk without reward. Not experimenting with
our survival to please others. Not some illusory celebration of a
two-state solution for a week and then watching it produce another
century of violence.
VIII. QA Pause for Serious Self-Reflection
Jonathan S. Tobin, executive director of Commentary magazine, wrote
in The Jerusalem Post (7/20): QWhen U.S. President Barack Obama met
with 15 representatives of American Jewish organizations on July 13,
HaQaretz reported that he told them that he wanted to help Israel
achieve peace but that if they were to benefit from his
well-intentioned counsel, Israelis must Qengage in serious
self-reflection.Q The breathtaking condescension toward the Jewish
state that this remark betrays, as well as the implicit dismissal of
the last 16 years of Middle East history, says a lot about Obama and
the direction in which American foreign policy is heading. The fact
that Israel has already gone through several periods of serious
self-reflection and made costly sacrifices in terms not only of
territory but in blood has no significance for the President.
Jewish Democrats don't have to jump to the Republicans. If, as
[Professor Alan] Dershowitz avows, pro-Israel Democrats have
influence on the administration, then let them use it before things
get even worse. Had a Republican done and said the same things that
Obama has in the last six months who can doubt that he and other
Democrats would be demanding that Jewish Republicans repudiate their
party's leader? The question remains what will be the tipping point
for Jewish Democrats at which it will be impossible for them to go
on pretending that they did not elect the most hostile president to
Israel since the first George Bush? If the current trend continues
without a strong negative reaction from Jewish Democrats who raised
money for Obama and voted for him, then we are entitled to ask why
they are either silent or rationalizing a policy that they know is
wrong.
CUNNINGHAM