Today’s Top Stories
1. Americans began voting today to choose the next US president. I’m not a fan of staying up all night waiting for election results, but if that’s your plan, the Columbia Journalism Review offers a useful guide of what to expect and when. And Politico lays out the game plans for the major news outlets so you can follow your favorite media personalities.
And in a notable break with tradition, Slate and Vice News are partnering up with Votecastr to offer real-time projections in each state throughout the day. The controversy in a nutshell is that till now, news services concerned about influencing the outcome refrained from making projections till all the polls closed.
2. Albanian authorities foiled an ISIS terror attack against the Israeli national soccer team during an upcoming game against Albania. Because of security concerns, the Saturday match is being moved to a different stadium. Jerusalem Post coverage.
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3. Israel successfully blocked a Palestinian bid to join Interpol. According to the Times of Israel:
The Palestinians wanted their request to join Interpol to come to a vote during the organization’s annual general assembly, which is taking place this week in Bali, but Jerusalem worked behind the scenes to prevent the vote . . .
Israel fears that sensitive information could be leaked to terrorists if the Palestinians join the organization, an official in Jerusalem said last week, without giving further details.
Israel and the Palestinians
• Israel is warning of a looming West Bank water crisis as the Palestinians “refuse to sit with the Israelis to talk about a long term water management program.”
• The Palestinian Constitutional Court ruled that Mahmoud Abbas has the authority to unilaterally revoke the immunity of parliamentarians. Not a great sign for democracy, but to put it in perspective, the Palestinian Legislative Council hasn’t met since 2007 anyway.
• Worth reading from AP: Killings spark reckoning over status of Arab women in Israel
• Fiji’s prime minister Frank Bainimarama visited Israel. According to the Fiji Sun and Radio New Zealand, issues on the agenda included regional peacekeeping forces which Fiji contributes personnel to, as well as climate change, and agriculture.
Bainimarama also thanked Israel for sending assistance after after Cyclone Winston devastated the South Pacific nation in February.
PM and @IsraeliPM at a meeting in Jerusalem where PM affirmed Fiji's commitment to UN Peacekeeping and invited PM Netanyahu to visit Fiji pic.twitter.com/UyUZ5p3vnI
— Frank Bainimarama (@FijiPM) November 7, 2016
• Did Prime Minister Netanyahu go overboard in response to an unflattering TV report? The Times of Israel explains:
The profile story by Ilana Dayan of Channel 2’s long-running “Uvda” program included exclusive interviews with various officials who have been in Netanyahu’s inner circle, and inside information on the internal operation of his office . . .
However, it was not the “Uvda” story itself that earned headlines in Hebrew media on Monday evening, but rather the prime minister’s response to the program: a three-page, 680-word tirade which was read out by Dayan in full, in a 6-minute segment toward the end of the program.
• No, I didn’t get a day off, but this is nice all the same.
• The rugby team of Goldsmiths University, in London, added a Palestinian flag to its uniform “in support of the Palestinian people” and BDS. The Student Union and rugby team issued a statement, which the Times of London, Daily Mail, and the Jewish News picked up on.
Sport should be unifying and played without borders by all, and this is exactly the point of the campaign. We believe that the privilege we have in the UK to play sport without borders is not one available to the Palestinian people, and this action is a reminder.
Commentary/Analysis
• Reuters’ Jerusalem bureau chief Luke Baker is back to his old snarky self.
https://twitter.com/LukeReuters/status/795865115388243969
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Zvi Bar’el: Mideast leaders await US election results with bated breath
– Ted Bromund: Why allowing Palestinians into Interpol would be a serious mistake
– Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians: When Fatah becomes the problem
– Norman Bailey: Israel holds out against prevailing entropy
– Jerusalem Post (staff-ed): Obama’s last hurrah – A move on the Mideast?
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