Volume 13, Issue 66:

Israel and states across the Arab world not only stand together in advancing peace. We stand together in confronting the greatest enemy of peace in the Middle East-Iran. Iran wantonly and repeatedly attacks its neighbors, and it's terror proxies are directly involved in violence throughout the Middle East, including in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Gaza and of course, Lebanon.

--- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his speech before the UN General Assembly, September 29, 2020
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** A Post-Palestine Middle East ([link removed])
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** By Hussein Aboubakr / September 15th, 2020 / Commentary ([link removed]) Magazine ([link removed])
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When I was a 14-year-old jihadist wannabe in Cairo in 2003, I didn’t care about Egyptian politics, Arabs, Hosni Mubarak, regional powers, Arab monarchy, Arab republicanism, capitalism, or any of the issues that animate worldly observers of Middle East politics. I cared about one thing and one thing alone: Palestine. All I needed to hear was the word “Palestine” in order to pledge my immediate unconditional loyalty to whoever was speaking. Few words—none, really—were fused with the fascinations, aspirations, emotions, longings, and mystical forces that the term “Palestine” summoned in me. Palestine was never merely a disputed geographical territory; it was a claim to the absolute fulfillment of the Islamic political vision, an eternal moral truth, secularized in Arab nationalism and sanctified in Islamism. Palestine meant el-helm el-Arabi (the Arab dream), the tajj ‘alras (the crown on top [of Arab-ness]), and the beating heart of Islam. To evoke Palestine was to evoke Islamic brotherhood
and Arab honor, for it was a reservoir of identity and a proof of faith. Palestine was the fulfillment of a state of spiritual purity of the Muslim individual and the whole body of Islam. The Arab will to Palestine was a Nietzschean will to power. It was the epistemological glue of the disparate components making up Arab political consciousness.

And I wasn’t alone. To the political and religious Arab minds of the 20th century, the idea of Palestine was everything. The dream of Arab nationalism, which had come to represent Arab-ness itself, and the cult of Islamism, which posed as the religion of Islam, both chose Palestine as their primary cause. This essentially consecrated Palestine as the psychological bond between Arab identity and Islam.

Much has changed in the past decade, however, and we are now entering the age of a post-Palestine Middle East. And as the region moves on to its post-Palestine reality, the world will move on to post-Islamism, and Islam itself will exert an ever-smaller influence over international politics. For the ideological forces that once caused terror in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, London, Madrid, and New York are slowly shrinking in history’s rearview mirror.

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** EMET in the News
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** Panel warns of growing threat of antisemitism on college campuses ([link removed]) - The College Fix
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** Israel
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** US Army receives 1st of 2 Iron Dome batteries, unlikely to buy more ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** Israel confirms it will hold U.S.-mediated talks with Lebanon on shared maritime border ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Full text of Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the 2020 UN General Assembly ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** Gaza Peace Activists Face Prison for Holding Video Call With Israelis ([link removed]) - New York Times
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** Analysis | Netanyahu and Erdogan in Unlikely Alliance Against Iran in Nagorno-Karabakh? ([link removed]) - Haaretz
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** Middle East
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** UAE submits formal requests to acquire F-35s from US ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Iran, Saudi Arabia have become China’s launchpads in the Mideast ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Hamas charges three Gaza activists for pro-peace video call with Israelis ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** Lebanon’s Prime Minister-Designate Resigns, Deepening Country’s Political Crisis ([link removed]) - Wall Street Journal
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** Threat to evacuate U.S. diplomats from Iraq raises fear of war ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Sheikh Sabah, Kuwaiti Leader Who Tried to Heal Rifts, Dies at 91 ([link removed]) - Bloomberg
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** In Turkey, Palestinian leaders announce breakthrough on unity, elections ([link removed]) - Al-Monitor
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** Hezbollah chief tells France's Macron can't act like Lebanon's ruler ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Egypt boosts naval power in deal with German shipbuilder ([link removed]) - Al-Monitor
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** Palestinians: US envoy’s ‘annexation’ remarks refute UAE claim ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** The Arab World Is Having a Jewish Revolution ([link removed]) - Foreign Policy
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** Iran
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** The renewed Azerbaijan-Armenia war: Another blow to Iran? ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Report: US considers new sanctions on Iran’s financial sector ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Iran: “We Will Help Any Country Fighting the Zionist Regime and the United States” ([link removed]) - JCPA
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** Iran Is Helping Venezuela To Form Popular Mobilization Force ([link removed]) - Radio Farda
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** U.N. nuclear watchdog inspects second Iranian site as agreed with Tehran ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Hamas opens up on arms, missile supplies from Iran ([link removed]) - Al-Monitor
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** Anti-Semitism
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** More than 160 House Democrats vote against anti-Semitism amendment ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Ocasio-Cortez withdraws from event to commemorate Yitzhak Rabin ([link removed]) - JNS
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** Belgium’s new justice minister has spoken of Jewish lobby ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement targets Jews on Yom Kippur ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Columbia U students pass college’s first-ever Israel boycott referendum ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Post
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** Gov. Newsom vetoes California ethnic-studies bill requiring high school anti-Israel curriculum ([link removed]) - JNS
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** NYU Reaches Settlement With Dept. of Education Over Anti-Semitism Complaint ([link removed]) - Jewish Journal
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