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Volume 15, Issue 08

"The PA is conducting a campaign of incitement, which would have made Goebbels proud. Where is the "concern" of the Security Council when Palestinians celebrate Jewish deaths in terrorist attacks?! The Palestinian Terrorist Authority paid $175 million to terrorists in 2022 alone!"


- Israel Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan
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This Week's Featured Article
Learning the Lessons of History
By Sarah Stern | February 23, 2023
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On Monday, February 20th, the United Nations Security Council issued a one-sided rebuke of Israel. The rebuke stated that “The Security Council reiterates that continuing Israeli settlement activities are dangerously imperiling the viability of the two-State solution based on the 1967 lines ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) “.

It is important that we remember some painful lessons of history.

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Next Week's Webinar


** Are the Proposed Judicial Reforms a Death Knell to Israeli Democracy?
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 12 PM ET

Many of us have looked on with horror as we see a highly polarized Israeli people torn apart by the proposed judicial reforms. As I write these words, the first set of bills of the proposed legislation was read before the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, and the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are rife with demonstrators, of an unprecedented number, perhaps since the proposed Gaza withdrawal of 2005.

What exactly are these reforms and do they actually signal “the end of Israeli democracy” as is so often heard? Is some sort of compromise possible?

Joining us to answer these questions and more is Professor Avi Bell.

About the Speaker: Avi Bell is an Israeli Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. Bell received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago, and his S.J.D. from Harvard. He interned in the office of Israeli Supreme Court judge Mishael Cheshin.

In addition, Bell frequently writes about the Arab-Israeli conflict. He also debated Richard Goldstone in a debate at Stanford Law School entitled “The Goldstone Report and the Application of International Law to the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” where a few days later, Goldstone said that “contrary to the report’s assertions, Israel did not intentionally target civilians. ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) ”

In 2006, Bell criticized Human Rights Watch for its reports on the Second Lebanon War, claiming that the organization’s claims “mislead readers and betray … bias,” and that “HRW investigation [in Srifa, Lebanon] was either professionally incompetent or a complete fabrication ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) ” and “nothing more than window dressing for predetermined anti-Israel conclusions.” Human Rights Watch responded by claiming that Bell “displays a curious ignorance about even the basic requirements of international humanitarian law” However, a 2007 report of Human Rights Watch admitted that its “allegation [of criminality in Srifa] turned out to be wrong.” The report stated that “eyewitnesses were not always forthcoming about the identity of those that died, and in the case of Srifa, misled our researchers … a visit to the graveyard made it possible to establish that most of those killed in Srifa were actually combatants,” and c
oncluding that “further Human Rights Watch investigations into a deadly strike at Srifa established that an Israeli attack there killed 17 combatants and five civilians on July 19, not the 26 civilians claimed in Fatal Strikes” and “Human Rights Watch regrets the serious inaccuracy in its initial Fatal Strikes report. ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) ”

Bell was formerly a visiting professor at Fordham University School of Law and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He currently teaches classes on property and intellectual property at University of San Diego School of Law, and on property, intellectual property and public international law at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. Bell also serves as Senior Fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum.
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** Iran acknowledges accusation it enriched uranium to 84% ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - AP News
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** U.S. May Release $7 Billion in Frozen Funds to Iran ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - FDD
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** Iran boosts military ties with Russia in part to counteract Abraham Accords ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Stimson
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** Iran sentences German-Iranian dissident to death ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - BBC
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** U.N. Inspectors Detect Near-Weapons-Grade Enriched Uranium in Iran ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Wall Street Journal
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** How Iran’s Acquisition Of Russian Military Hardware Could Impact The Middle East ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Forbes
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** Progress toward a breakthrough in Saudi-Israeli relations: ‘Haste is from the Devil’ ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JISS
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** Netanyahu readies strike on Iran nuclear facilities after secret meetings ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Fox News
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** Biden administration funds anti-Netanyahu protest group ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** There are certain times when national security challenges must overcome a divided nation ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JISS
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** 13-year-old Palestinian indicted for killing Border Police officer in East Jerusalem ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** IDF Nablus raid is another nail in the coffin of the Palestinian Authority ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Jerusalem Post
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** Palestinian woman shot after attempting to stab guards near Ma’ale Adumim ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** Syria earthquake: 'Inflection point' for normalisation with Bashar al-Assad ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Middle East Eye
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** Rocket strike in Damascus hit Iranian military experts, sources say ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Reuters
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** Following Saudis, Oman finally opens airspace to all countries, including Israel ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** Neo-Nazi ‘Day of Hate’ Prompts Warnings by Police Departments in Chicago and New York City ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Algemeiner
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** Los Angeles Jewish community shaken after two alleged antisemitic shootings ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - The Guardian
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** Antisemites Gather in Florida for Weekend of Hate ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - ADL
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** California School District Pulls Teacher Who Taught Antisemitic Conspiracies Out of Classroom ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Algemeiner
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** American Jews viciously targeted across the country ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** Supreme Court Declines to Hear Israel Boycott Case in Major Win for BDS Opponents ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Algemeiner
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** U.S. averts U.N. diplomatic crisis over Israel ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Politico
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** Joe Biden diplomats trying to block UK plan to proscribe Iran militias as terror group ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - The Telegraph
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** US Navy Mideast chief says Iran has 'attention of everyone' ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8900fae9d3&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Yahoo News
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