Today’s Top Stories
1. Following up on the Iran deal, Jerusalem’s trying to thwart an Arab move to place Israel’s nuclear program under international supervision. Haaretz reports:
The resolution, titled “Israeli nuclear capabilities,” has been repeatedly proposed by Egypt in recent years. It condemns Israel, demands that it open its reported nuclear facilities to IAEA inspection, and calls for an international conference on making the Middle East a nuclear-weapons-free zone.
Unlike Security Council resolutions, this one wouldn’t be binding. But it could still cause Israel great diplomatic damage, focus international attention on Israel’s nuclear program and prompt further IAEA action.
2. Britain’s National Union of Teachers is under fire for a teaching resource package “which asks teachers to explore themes of Palestinian “occupation, freedom and resistance.” The Daily Telegraph writes:
However, concerns have been raised that the resource pack gives a “one sided” and “divisive” view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Images in the pack’s appendix feature a Palestinian child who has been “assaulted by settlers” and the video contains a reference to “Jews” as opposed to “Israelis”.
3. Palestinians filed a report with International Criminal Court over the deadly Duma firebombing.
4. Discovering Terror — When the Suspects Are Jews: The Guardian won’t call Palestinian violence “terror” any more than it’ll call the people responsible for Ali Dawabsha’s death “freedom fighters.”
Israel and the World
• The Times of Israel visited the Dawabsha family’s mourning tent in Duma.
• More congressmen are confirming that French national security adviser told US lawmakers that if the nuclear accords are voted down, Iran will eventually come back to the negotiating table and “we’ll get a better deal.”
• Is Iran accord tearing US Jewry apart?
• Quite a few Arab countries that denounced Israel’s security fence are putting up border barriers of their own, reports Bloomberg News.
• British Jewish community expresses relief as High Court orders end to invasive autopsies
• Euro Maccabi games marred by anti-Semitism in Berlin.
Commentary/Analysis
• Iran Deal: Did the P5+1 Perform a ‘Bait and Switch’?
• Despite the pride parade stabbing, Israel is still a beacon of gay rights, says New York Post columnist David Kaufman.
• Can Jewish refugees claim billions from Arab states?
But the Arab states’ current disintegration process is not helping the chances of actually receiving compensation. Syria no longer exists as a state, as only 25 percent of the territory is controlled by the Assad regime and the rest is divided between the Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra, the national rebels and the Kurds.
The situation is similar in Iraq, where almost one-third of the territory is already controlled by ISIS. Libya has essentially been divided between a number of large tribes, and the situation in Algeria and Tunisia isn’t promising either
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Jonathan Tobin: Zero tolerance for Jewish and Arab terror
– Khaled Abu Toameh: Who is destroying the Palestinian dream?
– Jackson Diehl: Why Iran won’t give up Syria
– John Bolton: The Iran deal’s dangerous precedent
– Abdulrahman Al-Rashed: Is the Gulf’s relationship with US a mistake?
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