Today’s Top Stories
1. Will French President Emmanuel Macron issue an alternative Mideast peace plan if the White House does not reveal its peace plan after the upcoming US midterm elections?
2. The Union of European Football Associations reversed its ban on Israel airing UEFA matches to West Bank settlements.
3. Bolivia is promoting yet another anti-Israel event at the UN Security Council.
Bolivian Ambassador to the U.N. Sacha Sergio Llorenti Soliz has invited Randa Siniora, director of the Ramallah-based Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counselling and former director of Al-Haq – both groups that promote anti-Israel lawfare and support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement – to address the Security Council.
Al-Haq’s delegitimization campaign against Israel is especially virulent, and past officials in the organization have been convicted of affiliation with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated by Israel as a terrorist group.
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In the News
• For the first time in a week, Israel transferred a shipment of Qatari-sponsored fuel to Gaza.
• A manhunt is on for terrorists who fired at IDF soldiers from a moving vehicle at a West Bank checkpoint near the Palestinian village of Halhul, near Hebron, last night. Ynet coverage.
• A Palestinian youth was killed during a clash with IDF soldiers along the Gaza border yesterday. Some 200 Palestinians threw explosives at the border fence and burnt tires, which is why I disagree with the Associated Press and call it a clash and not a protest.
• A 23-year-old Palestinian man was killed during a clash with soldiers on Tuesday evening. The IDF entered entered the northern West Bank village of Tamun, near Nablus overnight looking for fugitives wanted for terror activity.
• Sending a signal to Iran, Azerbaijan’s military chief arrived in Israel for first official visit.
• Bloomberg News: “Israeli and Palestinian authorities have agreed on a new mechanism to facilitate Palestinian banking transactions, which would eliminate the threat of terrorism-financing lawsuits for Israeli banks and improve transparency in the Palestinian economy.”
• Israel Aerospace Industries in $777 million deal to supply air and missile defense systems for the Indian navy.
• Police in Jerusalem forcibly removed Coptic priests blocking Israel Antiquities Authority workers from carrying out safety repairs at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
• Ukrainian politician celebrates Cossack pogroms on Facebook(!?)
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly forgo early elections over fears that President Reuven Rivlin will block him from forming a new government. The president’s office dismissed the report as “paranoia.” i24 News explains the concerns in Netanyahu’s camp that
. . . Rivlin would charge another lawmaker with the task of forming a new government in light of a slew of corruption probes into the affairs of the prime minister and members of his inner circle.
Under Israeli law, after elections the President assigns the task of forming the new government to a lawmaker he feels will be able to form a successful coalition. The coalition then selects its prime minister. The law does not stipulate that the task must be assigned to the head of the party with the most votes, nor that it must be the head of a party at all.
Commentary
• Here’s what else I’m reading today:
– Raphael Ahren: Khashoggi disliked Israel, but his brutal murder puts Jerusalem in tough spot
– Nadav Shragai: Bethlehem after Oslo: Terror spiked in Israel’s absence
– Jonathan Tobin: The right to criticize Israel is beside the point
– Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinian ‘support’ for Saudi Arabia
– Karol Markowicz: Why does the Left give Louis Farrakhan a pass?
– Marc Schulman: American Jews and Israelis – We really need to talk
– Ben Sales: A conference of American Jews seeks dialogue with Israelis. But which Israelis, and to what end?
Featured image: CC BY Chris Candid; soccer CC0 Public Domain Pictures; bank via Wikimedia Commons; Rivlin via Wikimedia Commons; Netanyahu via YouTube/VOA News;
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