Today’s Top Stories
1. Could Hamas win West Bank municipal elections this October? Analysts explained to the Times of Israel why they expect Hamas to succeed — unless Fatah cancels the vote.
2. BDS, if you’re listening, here’s a by the numbers look at Turkey’s press crackdown based on the Poynter Institute‘s roundup and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Or is it only an outrage if Israel does this?
46: arrest warrants issued for journalists
16: TV stations shut down
23: radio stations shut down
15: magazines shut down
45: newspapers shut down
29: publishing and distribution channels shut down
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3. Work on the Israeli-Jordanian border fence is already underway, reports Globes.
The current segment from Eilat to the Samar sand dunes north of Timna is 30 kilometers long. The Ministry of Defense has built 24 kilometers of the fence so far, and is preparing to complete it in the coming weeks.
4. Terrorists Are NOT Victims: Turning terrorists into victims, and victims into attackers, emboldens would-be terrorists everywhere.
5. Fighting Media Bias: Dispatches From the Front: HonestReporting CEO Joe Hyams was the special guest on MySababa’s Ask Me Anything. Find out what he had to say during his live online chat…
Israel and the Palestinians
• The JTA examines five reasons why Israel is succeeding against lone wolf terror attacks.
• The Associated Press profiled Dani Dayan, who begins his new job as Israeli consul-general in New York next week. He was originally tapped to be ambassador to Brazil, but Brasilia rejected the appointment because of Dayan’s background as chairman of the Yesha Council, a committee representing Israeli settlements.
• Britain’s ITV News visited a Hamas summer camp.
Inside the Hamas summer training camp for Gaza teenshttps://t.co/3lO4fiMKuZ
— ITV News (@itvnews) July 27, 2016
• CNN’s Christiane Amanpour discussed the prospects of peace with former prime minister Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman, David Keyes.
• Could headlines like this undermine Palestinian confidence in the French peace initiative?
Around the World
• A British internet troll is facing prison time for making violent anti-Semitic threats to Labour MP Luciana Berger. The Guardian notes that John Nimmo was previously jailed in 2014 for sending threatening messages on Twitter to another MP and a feminist campaigner.
• As joblessness, inequality and violence rise in South Africa, the Jewish community is grappling with the question of whether to stay or leave. What does the future hold? The Times of Israel takes a closer look.
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Jonathan Tobin: Why Israel may seal US aid deal now
– Prof. Efraim Inbar: Implications of US disengagement from the Middle East
– Daniel Serwer: The right target for the US in Syria: Hezbollah
– Aron Shapiro: Settlement ‘expansion’ fails to even match natural growth
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