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http://www.centerpeace.org ** Israel and the Middle East News Update ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Thursday, November 19 ------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for a printer-friendly version. (http://centerpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/November-19.pdf) Headlines: * Kerry to Visit Israel, West Bank Next Week * Two Killed, One Wounded in Tel Aviv Stabbing * Israel Weighs Suing EU Over Product Labeling Policy * Interviews Reveal Extent of Olmert Peace Offer * Netanyahu Wants US Release of Israeli Spy Pollard Kept Low-Key * Police Raid East Jerusalem Palestinian Ambulance Office * Israeli Officer Sentenced to Community Service in Beating Arab Teen * Arab Municipalities Strike Over Ban on Islamic Movement Commentary: * Wall Street Journal: “Islamic State Understands One Thing: Force” - By Naftali Bennett, Israeli Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs * Ha’aretz: “The Middle East Challenge: A Western-Arab-Israeli Pact” - By Ari Shavit, Senior Correspondent and Editorial Board Member, Ha’aretz ** Ha'aretz ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Kerry to Visit Israel, West Bank Next Week (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.686979) ------------------------------------------------------------ U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories next Monday to discuss ways of stopping the violence and the implementation of confidence-building measures. He is scheduled to meet with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday. The visit will be Kerry's first in over a year. Frank Lowenstein, the American envoy to the peace process, will arrive in Israel today to prepare for Kerry's visit and start discussing confidence-building steps with both sides. The visits by Kerry and Lowenstein are a continuation of the talks Netanyahu held last week with President Barack Obama and Kerry. See also, “Kerry Said to Plan Israel Visit in Bid to Ease Tensions” (Times of Israel) (http://www.timesofisrael.com/kerry-said-to-plan-israel-visit-in-bid-to-ease-tensions/) ** Ha'aretz ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Two Killed, One Wounded in Tel Aviv Stabbing (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.687133) ------------------------------------------------------------ Two were killed and one was wounded in a stabbing attack on Ben Tzvi Road in Tel Aviv on Thursday afternoon. The wounded is in moderate condition. The Palestinian assailant was lightly wounded and is in custody. According to a Magen David Adom rescue services spokesperson, the stabbing occurred at the entrance to the Panarama Building in southern Tel Aviv. The assailant was apprehended by a traffic cop in the warehouse of a shoe store. After launching a search for a second suspect, police confirmed the assailant acted alone. See also, “Two Murdered in Tel Aviv Stabbing Attack” (Ynet News) (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4728168,00.html) ** International Business Times ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Israel Weighs Suing EU Over Product Labeling Policy (http://www.ibtimes.com/israel-weighs-suing-eu-over-product-labeling-policy-report-2191364) ------------------------------------------------------------ The Israeli government is mulling filing a lawsuit against the European Union with the World Trade Organization (WTO) for the bloc’s decision to approve guidelines (http://www.ibtimes.com/eu-approves-guidelines-labeling-products-israeli-settlements-2179342) that would require member states to label goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights, Ha’aretz reported Thursday, citing an unnamed official. According to the report, the Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, as well as Deputy Attorney General Roy Schondorf, are in favor of suing the EU, and believe that the move “could be beneficial.” See also, “Dead Sea Products Could Be First Test of EU Labeling Rules” (Ha'aretz) (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.686990) ** BICOM ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Interviews Reveal Extent of Olmert Peace Offer (http://www.bicom.org.uk/news-article/27568/) ------------------------------------------------------------ In a series of interviews on Channel Ten, Israel’s former-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas discussed the details of Olmert’s peace offer in 2008 and Abbas’s decision not to accept it. The interviews show Abbas himself detailing for the first time the extent of the offer which Olmert made. Abbas told Channel Ten, “I feel if we had continued four to five months, we could have concluded the issues.” See also, “Abbas admits he rejected 2008 peace offer from Olmert” (Times of Israel) (http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-admits-he-rejected-2008-peace-offer-from-olmert/) ** Jerusalem Post ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Bibi Wants US Release of Israeli Spy Pollard Kept Low-Key (http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Netanyahu-wants-US-release-of-Israeli-spy-Pollard-kept-low-key-434659) ------------------------------------------------------------ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Israeli officials to keep low-key about Friday's scheduled release by the US of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. The former US Navy analyst's espionage for Israel in the 1980s remains a strain on ties with Washington and his parole terms dictate that he stay in the US for five years. Pollard has said he wants to immigrate to Israel where his second wife lives and where he can expect to receive substantial Israeli government back-pay. He was granted Israeli citizenship while in prison. Israeli officials are concerned that too warm a celebration over his release might hurt efforts to persuade the U.S. government to let him leave for Israel sooner. See also, “Netanyahu to Obama: Let Pollard Move to Israel” (Israel Hayom) (http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=29795) ** Jerusalem Post ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Police Raid East Jerusalem Palestinian Ambulance Office (http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Police-raid-east-Jerusalem-Palestinian-Red-Crescent-ambulance-office-434540) ------------------------------------------------------------ Less than a week after Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics allegedly refused to treat Rabbi Ya’akov Litman and his teenage son Netanel after they were mortally wounded in the West Bank, police on Tuesday night raided the East Jerusalem office of the emergency medical service. Last Friday afternoon, Palestinian terrorists opened fire on a van carrying Litman, his wife, three daughters aged 5, 9, and 11, and two sons, aged 16 and 18. The family was on its way to a pre-wedding Shabbat celebration for a fourth daughter outside Otniel, south of Hebron. Litman, 40, and Netanel, 18, died at the side of the road waiting for Magen David Adom paramedics to arrive, when the Palestinian ambulance passed by without stopping to aid the dying father and son, his wife, Noa, said. The PRC denied the claim in a message on its website. ** The New York Times ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Officer Sentenced to Community Service in Beating Arab Teen (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/world/middleeast/israeli-border-police-officer-sentenced-palestinian-american-teen.html?_r=0) ------------------------------------------------------------ An Israeli border police officer who was filmed beating a Palestinian-American teenager (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/world/middleeast/beating-of-palestinian-american-boy-caught-on-video.html) on the edges of a riot in East Jerusalem in July 2014 has been sentenced to 45 days of community service and to a suspended prison term of four months. State prosecutors had requested a 7-month jail term for the beating, which prompted international outrage when a video recording of it came to light. The Israeli news media said that the court handed down the lighter sentence on Wednesday after taking into account the officer’s expression of remorse, his service on behalf of state security and the difficult circumstances in which he was operating. ** Middle East Eye ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Arab Municipalities Strike Over Ban on Islamic Movement (http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-arab-municipalities-strike-over-israels-decision-ban-movement-1972307808#sthash.Ur8dJG07.dpuf) ------------------------------------------------------------ Palestinian Arab towns in Israel went on strike on Thursday in protest against the decision by Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon to outlaw the northern branch of the Islamic Movement. Schools and official institutions linked to the Arab municipalities were closed down for the whole of Thursday. The strike was organised by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, which also called for large protests to take place on Saturday at the intersections of the towns and villages. Israeli security forces had raided the offices of the northern Islamic movement and confiscated files and computers, accusing it of inciting violence at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound that has escalated into weeks of deadly unrest. ** Wall Street Journal – November 18, 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Islamic State Understands One Thing: Force (http://www.wsj.com/articles/islamic-state-understands-one-thing-force-1447891726) ------------------------------------------------------------ Europe and the U.S. can follow the Israeli playbook to defeat Islamist terror. Here’s how we did it. By Naftali Bennett On March 27, 2002, a suicide bomber walked into the Park Hotel in the Israeli city of Netanya and blew up the explosives belt he had strapped around his waist. Thirty people, who moments earlier were sitting down for the Passover Seder, were murdered. A celebratory and civilized scene, like those in Paris last week, had suddenly become a field of carnage. The Park Hotel attack came at the height of the Second Intifada, a conflict that would ultimately claim the lives of more than 1,000 Israelis. More than 130 people were killed that March, and by then there had already been thousands of terror attacks. My country, Israel, seemed paralyzed and the national sentiment was that the military would be unable to defeat the terror campaign. The only real way to stop the attacks, many supposed experts said, was by political means. They were wrong. Two days after the hotel massacre, the Israeli government launched a military operation called Defensive Shield to stop the suicide bombers and retake control of Palestinian cities in the West Bank. It worked. Within weeks of the operation, the number of attacks and Israeli casualties dropped by more than 80%, and while it took time, we eventually succeeded in bringing suicide attacks down to zero. We proved that terror can be defeated. Europe, the U.S. and their allies can defeat the terrorists of Islamic State, or ISIS. The first step is making the decision to fight back. The next step is understanding that drones and standoff missiles will not be enough. Ground troops will be needed. In 2002 Israel went on the offensive in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Jenin, Jericho and Tulkarm, going house-to-house and door-to-door to hunt down Palestinian terror suspects. We found and demolished bomb labs, arms caches and terrorist command centers. I remember the period well. At the time I was in New York running a high-tech company. As an officer in an elite Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commando unit, I got on a plane, flew back to Israel and joined my fellow soldiers as we fought to stop the terror wave that had struck our country. We succeeded because we understood that when fighting Islamic terror, there is no middle ground. There is no halfway solution. There is one path to victory and that is taking the fight to the enemy. I know that “boots on the ground” is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks. But we need to be honest—while these attacks hurt ISIS, they will not destroy it. To win, the world needs to go on the offensive. There is no other way. What Israel did in 2002 is a model for how terror can be defeated. Soldiers may be put in harm’s way, but the number of civilian lives saved will be much higher. Europe must also share intelligence within and outside the continent. Israel can help on that front. We maintain powerful counterterrorism intelligence tools because we are in the thick of the Middle East turmoil, with borders surrounded by Islamic State, Hamas and Hezbollah. But you don’t have to live next to terrorist lands to be able to defeat the enemy. The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions. What Israel showed in 2002 was that when you take the fight to enemy territory, the enemy will have difficulty taking the fight to you. This is not currently the case with ISIS. Yes, the jihadists face occasional airstrikes and missile bombardments, but they aren’t on the run. They don’t go to sleep worried that soldiers may burst in during the night and seize them. Their command centers are not really threatened. Only when that happens will the ability of ISIS to direct attacks in Europe or America be hindered. Like Israel, Europe and the U.S. also face terrorists who lurk in their own cities. Hundreds of young Westerners have inexplicably been drawn to the ISIS death cult; they fight in Syria or Iraq and return home with orders to attack. Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders. To detect these threats, European countries and the U.S. must strengthen their surveillance techniques. Liberty, freedom of speech and human rights are pillars of our democracies, but in Israel we balance them with national-security needs. Privacy is occasionally and under certain circumstances invaded, passports are confiscated and administrative detention is used to lock up terror suspects. We also demolish terrorists’ homes to deter future attacks. These steps can be highly effective. Last week a Palestinian terrorist ambushed an Israeli car, murdering a father and his son. The terrorist’s family turned him in on Sunday to prevent their house from being demolished. Europe can adopt some of these models. French President François Hollande on Monday called for amending France’s constitution to allow for more effective and aggressive measures against terrorists. This is an important step. No time can be wasted. The historic upheaval currently engulfing the Middle East is not going away. The world needs to be determined, to show resolve and not to blink when challenged by adversaries like ISIS. These terrorists understand only one language: force. Naftali Bennett, Israel’s minister of education and diaspora affairs, is a major in the IDF reserve corps. ** Ha’aretz – November 18, 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Middle East Challenge: A Western-Arab-Israeli Pact (http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.686963) ------------------------------------------------------------ When the response to Al-Qaida was destroying the old order without replacing it with a new order, a violent, savage disorder ensued. By Ari Shavit Of all people, it was the neoconservatives who seemed to get it. When 19 young zealots attacked the United States 14 years ago, the weird intellectual sect that surrounded President George W. Bush realized that this wasn’t an isolated event. The radical right philosophers understood that behind the planes that dived into Manhattan and Washington there was more than Osama bin Laden’s small, ingenious terror organization. Behind the attacks was the political disease afflicting the Middle East that cannot give its young people freedom, prosperity and hope. But after they diagnosed the disease, the neoconservatives only intensified it. Their senseless war in Iraq didn’t heal the region and didn’t spread democracy in the east, but the opposite. It created a catastrophic chain reaction that led to the rise of the Islamic State, which took over large swaths of Iraq and Syria and struck in Paris as well. The process that began on September 11, 2001, and continued with war, withdrawal and chaos, returned with a vengeance on November 13, 2015, making it clear to all what we’re up against – the collapse of the Middle East. For years the region was ruled by a corrupt order based on unenlightened despotism. The corrupt order produced despair, which erupted in the form of Al-Qaida. But when the response to Al-Qaida was destroying the old order without replacing it with a new order, a violent, savage disorder ensued. This disorder is spreading – Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, the Sinai Peninsula. The disintegration of Arab nation-states is causing a dysfunctional region; the Middle East is in an uncontrollable spiral. The West still refuses to understand what’s going on. First it tried to fix the Arab world aggressively. Then it tried to flee the Arab world haphazardly. Then it tried to pretend that the Arab world didn’t exist. But the Arab world is alive and kicking and hurting, shouting and bleeding. And it’s a terror attack away from Europe. This is why the judgment year 2015 arrived. First the January terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, then the summer refugee wave, and now the Black Friday of the 11th arrondissement. Anyone who still thinks that more vigorous intelligence work, more hermetic security and heavier airstrikes will solve the problem doesn’t understand the problem. The really dangerous thing about the Islamic State isn’t its organizational structure but the state of mind it represents. The really threatening thing about the Islamic State is that it’s a chilling symptom of the political bacteria devouring an entire region. Without a comprehensive look at the Middle East’s collapse, there’s no chance to stop the barbarism and bloodshed. So now we must return to exactly where we stood the day after the Twin Towers fell. On the one hand, we must understand what the neoconservatives understood – the basic problem we face is the modern Arab nation’s political failure to set up one state combining democracy and welfare. On the other hand, we must do the opposite of what the neoconservatives did. We must work with the region, not against it. We must listen, not coerce. We must find the stabilizing forces, get them to work together and forge a Western-Arab-Israeli pact that fights the Islamic State but also dries the swamps of desperation from which ISIS arises. It won’t be easy. It won’t happen overnight. But it’s time the international community understood the Middle East challenge it’s up against and dealt with it seriously, resolutely and creatively. Ari Shavit is a senior correspondent at Ha’aretz Newspaper and a member of its editorial board. ============================================================ S. 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