Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Newsletter! for Wednesday May 18, 2011

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Daily News Alert From Israel

U.S. Accuses Syria of Inciting Israel Border Clashes

See also below Commentary: Israel's Border Bloodshed: Will Syria Be Held Accountable? - Editorial (Washington Post)

Israeli Leader's Upcoming U.S. Trip Loses Steam - Edmund Sanders and Paul Richter

See also below Observations: Israel Can Only Make Peace with Those Who Want to Make Peace - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister's Office)

Iranian President Ahmadinejad's Spiritual Mentor Criticizes for His Role in Internal Power Struggle

See also Iran President Ahmadinejad Sacks 3 Ministers in Power Struggle

News Resources - Israel and the Mideast:
Israel Complains to UN Over Syria and Lebanon's Responsibility for Border Riots

IDF Writing Doctrine on Containing Border Marches - Yaakov Katz
The IDF Ground Forces Command is completing a new operational doctrine for containing anti-Israel marches in preparation for an expected increase in demonstrations ahead of the Palestinians' unilateral declaration of statehood in September. (Jerusalem Post)

Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis (Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):
Israel’s Border Bloodshed: Will Syria Be Held Accountable? - Editorial

Back to the Future in the Middle East - Editorial
Sunday's coordinated attacks on the Israeli border mark a dangerous turn back toward Mideast conflict. Most of the Palestinians in Syria were bused to the Israeli border from two camps controlled by factions friendliest to the Assad regime. Syrian border guards, who since the 1974 truce have kept anyone on their side far from the frontier, let the arrivals rush through.
As ominously, Egypt's post-Mubarak elites are brushing up on their Nasser-style nationalism and anti-Israel populism. Some of the leaders who helped mobilize the protesters on Tahrir Square joined in calls for a "Third Intifada" against Israel. Secular groups have joined with the Muslim Brotherhood in demonstrations outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo.
The Arab Spring began as an effort by Arab publics to reform their own sclerotic politics. If they now retreat to blaming Israel for all of their problems, the uprising in the streets will be for naught. (Wall Street Journal)

Why George Mitchell Failed - Tawfik Hamid
Approaching the Arab-Israeli conflict from the perspective that it is about land, so that giving more land to the Palestinians will solve the problem, is a failed endeavor. Israel has already given Egypt the whole of the Sinai, and got nothing in return except a cold peace and rising anti-Semitism in the country. Similarly the disengagement from Gaza did not magically lead to a decline in the wave of anti-Semitism in the Muslim world.
Until U.S. envoys to the Middle East realize that the problem in the eyes of the Palestinians is not the borders of Israel but the very existence of the country, all future missions will similarly fail. The writer is a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. (Jerusalem Post)
Observations:

Israel Can Only Make Peace with Those Who Want to Make Peace - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister's Office)

Prime Minister Netanyahu told the Knesset Monday:
The Middle East is changing rapidly and drastically. Hundreds of millions of people around us yearn for political freedom and are fighting to obtain these freedoms. It is very possible that in the long term, these changes will be for the best. But in the short term, our situation could possibly worsen.

The citizens of Israel are much more united than is commonly believed. There is consensus regarding the basic issues:
The Palestinians must recognize the State of Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people.
The agreement between us must end the conflict and end the demands from the State of Israel.
The problem of the Palestinian refugees will be resolved outside of Israel and not within its borders.
A Palestinian state will only be established under a peace treaty that will not compromise the safety of Israel. This state must be demilitarized, with practical security arrangements, including long-term IDF presence along the Jordan River.
We must maintain the settlement blocs. Many of us agree that the settlement blocs must remain inside the borders of the State of Israel.
Jerusalem must remain the united and sovereign capital of the State of Israel.
We can only make peace with those who want to make peace with us. Those who wish to obliterate us are no partners for peace. A Palestinian government with half its members declaring daily that they plan to annihilate the Jewish state is not a partner for peace.
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