Today’s Top Stories
1. Hezbollah claimed it sent the unmanned aerial vehicle that flew over Israeli airspace yesterday. Two Patriots missiles and an air-to-air missile failed to bring down the drone, which returned to Syria unharmed. Hezbollah claimed the drone was sent to photograph IDF maneuvers in the Golan. More at the Times of Israel and Defense News.
2. Israel advocates slammed UCLA and BDS-supporting campus groups over a leaked confidential report condemning a student leader for neutrality on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The report claimed that former Graduate Student Association (GSA) president Milan Chatterjee violated university policy on “viewpoint-neutral funding” in 2015, for initially refusing to fund any program organized by or featuring a pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group . . .
“The fact that a student official would be sanctioned for seeking to avoid embroiling the UCLA GSA in the fraught politics of the Middle East tells you all you need to know about the political agenda of his detractors and the cowardice of those that enable them.”
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3. A French Jewish woman died of injuries from last week’s Nice truck attack. The overall death toll now stands at 84, according to French authorities.
Raymonde Mamane, 77, was critically injured and put on a respirator following the outrage but succumbed to her injuries on Sunday. Her sister Clara Bensimon, 80 is still in a coma according to reports, which also say she had to have her legs amputated as a result of her injuries.
Israel and the Palestinians
• A Palestinian stabbed two Israelis, lightly injuring them at a West Bank checkpoint by a refugee camp near Hebron this afternoon. A gun battle broke out when IDF forces went to demolish the home of a Palestinian terrorist last night. Also last night, an Israeli-Arab was arrested for trying to steal a soldier’s weapon outside an army base.
• Nominally, this New York Times piece is about Islamic State-inspired lone-wolf terror, but the underlying ideas of incitement, inspiration and linkage also applies to the last few months of Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming, and shooting attacks.
• The Egypt Independent picked up on Israel’s new ambassador to Cairo, David Govrin, arriving to take up his new position. Govrin replaces Haim Koren.
• The background for this tweet by Khaled Abu Toameh: In 1975, Ahmed Jabara (a.k.a. Abu Sukkar) killed 15 people and injured another 77 in downtown Jerusalem with a booby-trapped refrigerator.
Israel sentenced Jabara to 30 years in prison, but released him early in 2003 as a gesture to Yasser Arafat. After he died of a heart attack in 2013, the PA honored Jabara with a military funeral.
Palestinian Authority unveils monument honoring 'Fridge Bomber' Ahmed Jbarra. (13 killed in 1975 explosion) amad.ps pic.twitter.com/FajXCquCF6
— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) July 18, 2016
Around the World
• Turkey reportedly thanked Israel for its support during coup attempt.
• Foreign Policy takes a closer look at how Hezbollah has evolved while fighting in Syria, and what it means for Israel.
• What can France learn from Israel?
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Amos Guiora: As Israelis know, live as if there is no terrorism, but deal with its reality
– Yossi Melman: How do you stop a lone wolf terrorist?
– Judith Bergman: Europe is not Israel
– Khaled Abu Toameh: The Palestinians power struggle between young guard and old guard
– Yoav Limor: Drone infiltration: Lessons must be learned
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