Today’s Top Stories
1. Haaretz: The Palestinian ambassador to the US, Riyad Mansour, vowed the Palestinians “would ‘make life miserable’ for the United States” if Donald Trump moves the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
"We have a lot of weapons in the UN", claims Riyad Mansour, who didn't explain why none of them are being used. https://t.co/ow2DrrYM2J
— Ben White (@benabyad) November 13, 2016
2. Aides to President-elect Donald Trump reportedly warned outgoing President Barack Obama against 11th hour ‘new adventures’ on Palestinian issue or other major foreign policy moves. The Times of Israel picked up on Politico‘s scoop.
Trump, for one, has made it very clear he will support Israel and its preferences. A post-election statement by Trump’s advisers on Israel said, “A two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians appears impossible as long as the Palestinians are unwilling to renounce violence against Israel or recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.”
3. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited Israel to push for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks hosted in Moscow. Medvedev also signed agreements on agriculture, customs, high-tech and more. His visit kicked off with a politically incorrect visit to the Western Wall.
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4. Why US Election Coverage Is a Wake Up Call for Israel’s Supporters: What to make of the media’s post-election mea-culpas?
5. False Claims of Biblical Proportions: Do Jews really want to pray inside the Al Aqsa Mosque?
6. Vote for the Dishonest Reporter of 2016: Our annual recognition of the year’s most skewed and biased coverage of Israel and the Mideast conflict. Make your voice heard and we’ll announce the ignoble winners by the end of the year.
Israel and the Palestinians
• Iranian general: We set up missile factory in Syria to supply Hezbollah during the 2006 war.
During the 34 days of fighting, Hezbollah launched over 4,000 rockets at Israel, an average of over 100 a day.
Israel believes that Hezbollah currently has as many as 100,000 rockets pointed at Israel, in violation of the UN resolution that ended to 2006 conflict.
• Hundreds protested and burned an Israeli flag at UN climate talks in Morocco. They were demonstrating against an Israeli flag flying alongside 195 others outside the Marrakech venue.
• Jerusalem Post: Hamas considers Moroccan journalists’ visit to Israel a ‘crime.’
Around the World
• For the second time since February, Iran has exceeded the limits of allowed heavy water, according to a UN report.
• German police are investigating a neo-Nazi group which published on Facebook the addresses of Berlin Jewish institutions on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
• Visiting the University of Maryland during her US tour.
Yityish Aynaw, the first black Miss Israel shared her story of immigrating from Ethiopia, becoming an IDF commander, and then her country’s beauty queen.
(Related reading: The Hypocrisy of a Black Miss Israel)
• ‘Anxious’ Jewish students at U. of New Mexico are ‘intimidated’ into keeping a low profile on campus.
• Cyprus unveiled a memorial to the detention camps where Britain interred Holocaust survivors trying to reach Mandatory Palestine 70 years ago.
Commentary/Analysis
• Israel and Donald Trump are on my mind this weekend.
– Pinhas Inbari: Trump’s election upsets PA’s diplomatic campaign against Israel
– Barak Ravid: For Netanyahu, Donald Trump’s victory is a trip into the unknown
– Herb Keinon: Trump and Israel, now what?
– Raphael Ahren: Trump and Netanyahu — a match made in heaven?
– Aaron David Miller: Beyond the Trump-Netanyahu honeymoon (click via Google News)
– Eli Lake: Making the Iran nuclear deal great again
– Amos Harel: Impossible to second-guess Trump on Israel, Russia and Iran
– Avi Issacharoff: Arabs surprisingly pleased with Trump win
– Prof. Eyal Zisser: Trump’s Arab world challenge
– Shmuel Rosner: How Donald Trump will divide American and Israeli Jews
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Henry: Kissinger: To prevent regional explosion, US must thwart Iranian expansionism
– Eran Lerman: Peace can’t be forced on Israel, or the Palestinians, from the outside
– MP John Howell: Celebrating 100 years of the Balfour Declaration
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