Temple Mount Crisis Analysis

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PeaceCast: #20: Zooming in on the Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif

 

 

 

Ofer Zalzberg, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group is a leading expert on the Holy Esplanade, the site in Jerusalem that Jews refer to as the Temple Mount and Muslims call the Haram al-Sharif. Ofer analyzes the current crisis and discusses ways in which similar crises may be avoided in the future. 

 

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Legislative Round-Up: July 24, 2017

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived

  1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
  2. Hearings
  3. On the Record

 

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"Price Tag" Escalation Timeline: Jan 1, 2011 - Oct 18, 2017

The following is a timeline of major "Price Tag" attacks (as reported by Israeli sources).  It documents a clear escalation in attacks, and the increasing spread of attacks inside the Green Line.  Italics indicate so-called "triggers" - events or developments that appear to be linked to subsequent attacks - although as has been noted in the Israeli press, "According to the Shin Bet, the right-wing extremists no longer appear to need a 'trigger' to take action, while the targets of the violence are also widening..." We will update this regularly.

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July 24, 2017 - Temple Mount crisis escalates

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Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

This week, Alpher discusses the Temple Mount crisis; where we start analyzing this; the Israeli mistakes; the Arab response; where Washington is in all this; and how the Temple Mount crisis might end.

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News Nosh 7.24.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 24, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"People told him, 'Why didn't you finish him off?' Going into the house and shooting him in the head is another case of Elor Azaria. We are not murderers, we are only defenders."
--Rachel Maoz, mother of the soldier who shot through the window and injured the Palestinian who murdered three people, rejected calls that her son should have executed the murderer.*


Breaking News:
Palestinian stabs Arab Israeli bus driver in Israel, says he 'did it for Al-Aqsa'
32-year-old man stabbed and moderately-to-severely wounded by 21-year-old West Bank Palestinian; victim evacuated for treatment; terrorist apprehended by police. (Ynet and Israel Hayom)

Israeli Embassy guard kills 2 Jordanians while being attacked with screwdriver
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak with Jordan's King Abdullah in bid to avert burgeoning diplomatic crisis • Jordan refuses to allow Israeli Embassy guard, who was attacked by carpenter(s) with screwdriver at an embassy staff apartment, to leave for Israel, demanding to question him. (Israel Hayom, Haaretz)
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News Nosh 7.23.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 23, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“The writing wasn’t on the wall – it was on the table, in every internal discussion, it was in the mouths of the experts, the long-timers of the Shin Bet and the police, it was also here, on the pages of the newspaper.”
--Senior Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea writes that the murder Friday night of three Israeli family members in a West Bank settlement could have been avoided had Israel not decided Friday morning to leave the metal detectors in place on the Temple Mount.**
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APN/Peace Now in the News: July 15-21, 2017

Times of Israel: July 17, 2017
"Settlers of Netiv Ha’avot outpost fight looming destruction," Peace Now's Hagit Ofran: Palestinian landowners will file more petitions to reclaim their land from illegal outpost Derekh Haavot.

US News (Reuters story): July 17, 2017
"Israeli 'Counter-Terrorism Boot Camp' a Tourist Attraction in Occupied West Bank," Peace Now criticizes West Bank settlement-based "counter-terrorism boot camp" for tourists.

News Nosh 7.21.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 21, 2017
 
Number of the day:
48.
--Percentage of Israelis who think Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is corrupt, according to poll published today in Maariv. Nevertheless, the Likud still leads the Knesset, but drops to 24 mandates, compared to the 30 it received in elections.
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News Nosh 7.20.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 20, 2017

Quote of the day:
"(East Jerusalem includes) villages with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Police do not enter them, and neither does the Education Minister."
--The response of MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) following the passing in a first reading of a bill to make it harder to divide Jerusalem for a future Palestinian state. Livni was referring to right-wing MK Naftali Bennett who initially proposed the bill.*
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