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Monday, Aug. 22 '16, י"ח באב תשע"ו
HEADLINES:
1. POLL: ISRAELI JEWS FEAR PALESTINIANS, REJECT PLAN FOR PA STATE
2. WATCH: ISIS USES 12-YEAR OLD SUICIDE BOMBER IN IRAQ
3. NORTH KOREA THREATENS 'NUCLEAR STRIKE' AGAINST US, SOUTH KOREA
4. TURKEY: BORDER REGION MUST BE 'CLEANSED' OF ISIS
5. HALF THE VICTIMS OF TURKEY BOMBING WERE UNDER 14
6. RUSSIAN 'SHOW-OFFS' AT IRANIAN BASES ANGER ISLAMIC REGIME
7. TOP CLINTON AIDE HELD SENIOR POSITION AT ISLAMIST JOURNAL
8. EXPERT: RECONCILIATION WITH TURKEY HELPS ISRAEL
1. POLL: ISRAELI JEWS FEAR PALESTINIANS, REJECT PLAN FOR PA STATE
by David Rosenberg
Few Israeli Jews and Palestinian Authority Arabs support the basic outline of a final status agreement along the lines of the offer made by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak to Yasser Arafat in the summer of 2000, a new joint poll reveals.
According to the survey, conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute and Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, narrow majorities of both Israelis and Palestinian Authority Arabs support the two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Fifty-one percent of Palestinian Authority residents said they favored the two-state solution, compared to 54% in 2014. Among Israeli Jews, the level was only slightly higher, with 53% supporting a two-state solution. Among all Israelis, 58% said they favored the two-state solution, compared to 62% two years ago.
But few favored the implementation of the two-state solution along the parameters most often presented, including a final status agreement, the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state encompassing all of Gaza and nearly all of Judea and Samaria, with eastern Jerusalem as its capital.
According to the basic peace plan outline, Israel would also absorb 100,000 Arabs under a right of return. The Old City of Jerusalem would be divided, with the Western Wall and Jewish Quarter under Israeli control, while the Muslim and Christian Quarters and Temple Mount would be integrated into the new Palestinian state.
Only 39% of Israeli Jews and an equal number of Palestinian Authority Arabs said they would support such a framework for a peace deal, while 55% of Israeli Jews and 59% of PA Arabs said they opposed it.
The poll also revealed that despite narrow majorities on both sides in favor of a two-state solution, there is little trust between Israelis and Palestinian Authority Arabs.
The overwhelming majority of Palestinian Authority Arabs (89%) believe that Israeli Jews are not trustworthy.
Among Israeli Jews, roughly two thirds said that they fear PA Arabs (65%), and that Arabs were untrustworthy (68%). Few Palestinian Authority Arabs, however, said they feared Israeli Jews, with 54% responding they did not fear Israeli Jews.
Majorities on both sides also believe that no peace deal can be of mutual benefit for both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, agreeing with the statement that: "Nothing can be done that's good for both sides; whatever is good for one side is bad for the other side". Among PA Arabs 70% agree with that statement, compared to 61% of Israeli Arabs, and 50% of Israeli Jews.
Israelis and Palestinian Authority Arabs also agreed that the likelihood of a Palestinian state being established in the near future was low. Among Israelis 77% said a Palestinian state would probably not be formed in the next five years, compared to 73% among Palestinian Authority residents.
2. WATCH: ISIS USES 12-YEAR OLD SUICIDE BOMBER IN IRAQ
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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After a 13-year old suicide bomber killed 53 and wounded dozens more Saturday night, on Sunday police in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk captured a 12-year old boy carrying an explosive vest.
The boy, who was sent by the ISIS terror group to kill locals in the predominantly Kurdish city, was captured hours after another suicide bomber blew himself up near a mosque in Kirkuk, wounding three.
After he was captured, the would-be bomber burst into tears as police removed the explosive device, which was later detonated in a controlled explosion by an Iraqi bomb squad.
3. NORTH KOREA THREATENS 'NUCLEAR STRIKE' AGAINST US, SOUTH KOREA
by David Rosenberg
Pyongyang warned the United States and South Korea not to take any "aggressive" actions during their joint military exercise, pledging to respond to any such moves with a nuclear attack against Washington and Seoul.
North Korea's shrill threat came after the defection of a senior North Korean official, Fox News reported, and plans by the US to deploy a missile defense system in South Korea.
The rogue state warned that any attempt to catch North Korea off-guard would be met with a nuclear response, adding that the respective capitals of South Korea and the US would be turned into "a heap of ashes through a Korean-style pre-emptive nuclear strike".
Despite the rhetoric, however, experts say the North Korean military lacks such far-reaching capabilities.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has, like his father Kim Jong Il, shown a flair for over the top claims and hyperbolic threats.
Nevertheless, the Korean peninsula, where 25,000 American servicemen and women are currently deployed, remains a hotspot, with fears North Korea's increasingly desperate leadership could attempt other provocations to distract from a recent string of defections.
On Monday, South Korean President Park Geun Hye warned Pyongyang could be planning terror attacks or outright military assaults to bolster domestic morale.
4. TURKEY: BORDER REGION MUST BE 'CLEANSED' OF ISIS
by AFP
Turkey said on Monday Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists must be totally pushed out of the Syrian border region, after a weekend suicide bombing in the city of Gaziantep blamed on the group left at
least 54 dead.
"Our border must be completely cleansed from Daesh," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in televised remarks, using an Arabic acronym for the ISIS group.
"It is our most natural right to fight at home and abroad against such a terrorist organisation."
A child suicide bomber, aged "between 12 and 14," is suspected of carrying out the attack in the southeastern city of Gaziantep near the Syrian border late on Saturday on the orders of ISIS jihadists, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Cavusoglu said Monday Turkey has already taken an "active" role in the fight against ISIS, allowing coalition forces to use a key base in the southern part of the country for air raids on the extremist group.
Quoting security sources, some Turkish media reported earlier the Gaziantep attack could have been retaliation by ISIS for an operation carried out by Ankara-backed opposition rebels against the jihadists in Jarablus in northern Syria.
Asked if the government supported the operation, Cavusoglu said: "We can back anyone, especially the moderate opposition fighting against Daesh (ISIS) on the ground."
"We will fight Daesh to the end and continue to support countries and forces fighting them," he added, without giving further details.
Cavusoglu said Turkey was a "prime target of Daesh" because the government had dried up the group's resources of foreign terrorist fighters, placing an entry ban on 55,000 members and deporting around 4,000 suspects.
"In this sense we have dealt the biggest blow to Daesh," he said.
The foreign minister said Turkey and Erdogan played a key role in defeating the ideology of ISIS, adding: "Therefore, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is their number-one target."
Turkey was long accused of turning a blind eye to or even abetting the rise of ISIS in Syria, claims it vehemently denies.
However, western states say Ankara has begun to move strongly against the group and seal its borders to jihadist traffic after the attacks blamed on ISIS on its soil this year.
Arutz Sheva Staff contributed to this report
5. HALF THE VICTIMS OF TURKEY BOMBING WERE UNDER 14
by Arutz Sheva Staff
At least 22 of the victims of the wedding hall suicide bombing in Gazaintep, Turkey, were under the age of 14, according to local authorities.
The suicide bomber, roughly 13 years old, murdered at least 51 people who were attending a wedding in the south-east Turkey city. 69 more people were injured, of which 17 are in serious condition.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that ISIS are most probably behind the deadly terror attack.
Earlier today President Reuven Rivlin sent a condolence letter to Erdogan, expressing shock from the news and solidarity with the Turkish people:
"We were shocked and saddened to hear of the barbaric bombing attack in Gaziantep that took the lives of so many and injured so very many more innocent people gathered to celebrate a wedding.
"We stand beside the people of Turkey at this sad time. This event once again proves how vital it is that we all unite in the fight against those who are willing to kill and maim innocent people in order to promote their own goals. We must all cooperate in all ways we can, in order to put a stop to such senseless bloodshed and destruction that has already destroyed the lives of so many.
"The people of Israel join me in sending our sincere condolences to Your Excellency and to the people of Turkey.
"Please convey our sympathy to the bereaved families and our wishes for a speedy recovery to the wounded."
6. RUSSIAN 'SHOW-OFFS' AT IRANIAN BASES ANGER ISLAMIC REGIME
by AFP
Iran's Defense Minister said Russia had been "inconsiderate" and was "showing off" by revealing its use of an Iranian airbase for bombing missions into Syria, in a televised interview late on
Sunday.
The apparent criticism of a close ally came after Russia announced last week that it was using Iran's Hamedan base in western Iran for aerial strikes against insurgent groups in Syria.
"Naturally, the Russians are keen to show that they are a superpower and an influential country and that they are active in security issues in the region and the world," said defense minister Hossein Dehghan in an interview with Iran's Channel 2 television.
"There has been a kind of showing-off and inconsiderate attitude behind the announcement of this news," he said.
Iran and Russia are key backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but Tehran has remained relatively guarded about its precise involvement in the conflict.
The Islamic republic is also highly sensitive to any suggestion that it would allow foreign militaries to be based in its territory, which is outlawed under its constitution.
"We have collaborated and will continue to collaborate with Syria and Russia. Russia decided to bring in more planes and boost its speed and accuracy in operations," Dehghan said.
"Therefore, it needed to refuel in an area closer to the operation. That's why they used the Nojeh base (in Hamedan) but we have definitely not given them a military base."
7. TOP CLINTON AIDE HELD SENIOR POSITION AT ISLAMIST JOURNAL
by David Rosenberg
Former State Department Deputy Chief of Staff and senior Clinton confidant Huma Abedin worked for more than a decade at a stridently Islamist journal which opposed women's rights and blamed the United States for the 9/11 terror attacks, the New York Post reported on Sunday.
For more than a decade, Abedin was listed as the Assistant Editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs – a position she continued to hold while working as an aide to Hillary Clinton.
The Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA), is associated with the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), which was founded by Abedin's parents in 1978 to promote traditional Islamic norms and offer critiques of contemporary Western culture.
Today, both the IMMA and JMMA are headed by Abedin's mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin.
The JMMA has in the past served as a platform for Saleha Abedin's Islamist views, including her opposition to women's rights.
In 2012, five members of Congress penned a joint letter suggesting the JMMA promoted the Muslim Brotherhood's agenda and noting the "serious security concerns" of having a senior JMMA staff member working within the State Department.
An Egyptian newspaper claimed Saleha Abedin is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's women's division, the International Women's Organization.
In the past, the JMMA – during Huma Abedin's tenure there – blamed US foreign policy for the 9/11 terror attacks, citing Islamic "anger and hostility within the pressure cooker that was kept on a vigorous flame while the lid was weighted down with various kinds of injustices and sanctions".
"It was a time bomb that had to explode and explode it did on September 11, changing in its wake the life and times of the very community and people it aimed to serve, Saleha Abedin wrote".
The JMMA also blasted women's "empowerment", praising instead "Islamic values" of patriarchy and male authority.
"By placing women in the 'care and protection' of men and by making women responsible for those under her charge, Islamic values generate a sense of compassion in human and family relations."
8. EXPERT: RECONCILIATION WITH TURKEY HELPS ISRAEL
by Eliran Aharon
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Saturday's terrorist attack in Gaziantep, Turkey, in which 51 people were murdered, is more than likely the work of the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, Islamic expert Dr. Ephraim Herrera told Arutz Sheva on Sunday.
"The target was Kurdish civilians, and there is a war these days between the Islamic State and Kurdish soldiers in Syria, so this is a 'fair war' for ISIS to wage these attacks in Turkey or any place where there are Kurdish people," he said.
ISIS' strategy, explained Herrera, "is to threaten people, to threaten civilians with violent attacks. They are convinced that they will win this war."
Referring to the reconciliation attack between Israel and Turkey, which was ratified over the weekend by the Turkish parliament, Dr. Herrera explained that "there are many interests for Turkey to renew its relationship with Israel."
These interests include Turkey's desire to appear as a "moderate state", as well as its need for gas and energy.
Turkey also has interest in cooperating with Israel about possible attacks along its borders and also has a mutual enemy – Iran.
Israel also has interests in the relationship with Turkey, "but we have to be vigilant," said Dr. Herrera.
"Erdogan has always supported the Muslim Brotherhood and even the most radical among them, their spiritual leader Al-Qardawi," he noted. "As well, Gulen – the archenemy of Erdogan – is the most important leader of true moderate Islam. So [Erdogan] is fighting moderate Islam."
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, pointed out Dr. Herrera, "succeeded in something that experts thought was impossible. Turkey and Egypt are enemies. Turkey supported [Mohammed] Morsi against [Abdel Fattah] Al-Sisi. But despite this fact, the Israeli government succeeded in renewing its relations with both Egypt and Turkey."
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