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COVID-19 Explodes in Israel….
10 October 2020
On August 14, immediately after President Trump announced the Abraham Accords at the White House, the coronavirus cases in Israel began to increase dramatically.
On Sunday, August 30, Jared Kushner was in Israel to celebrate the Abraham Accords when the COVID-19 crisis began to explode.
Israel was facing record heat and electricity use and Jerusalem set a 120-year heat record, while the western U.S. was experiencing record heat that has led to more than four million acres of fires in California and others in Oregon and Washington, which accelerated when Governor Newsome signed SB-145 lowering LGBT penalties.
Within 72 hours of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s signing of the Abraham Accords at the White House on September 15, Israel went into national lock-down and has been on it since.
This week PM Netanyahu said the lockdown may be extended to October 18.
One problem is the Trump plan had a land map, and President Trump tweeted it to his 75 million twitter followers right after the presentation.
Israel’s PM heartily endorsed it. The American mapping team of three Americans and three Israelis began their work on February 24.
Two of the top economies in the world were devastated; prior to the plan’s introduction the U.S. and Israel were experiencing all-time record economic numbers.
As shared previously, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have also seen their legal problems accelerated, which was a previous pattern in Israel with past Israeli governments.
Where are things today?
Israel and U.S. leaders’ political futures are in doubt because of their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to the most politically divisive period in both countries’ history.
Multiple Fires Cover Israel, some allegedly caused by Arab Palestinians……
10 October 2020
Multiple fires broke out in several areas across Israel on Friday, with thousands of residents force to evacuate their homes.
While most fires are believed to have been caused due to extreme heat conditions, officials in the Israeli security establishment raised concerns that some fires in the West Bank [so-called] were the result of deliberate arson by Arab Palestinians.
IDF soldiers were recruited to help wildfire containment efforts and evacuate citizens from residential areas of the country that were under threat.
Friday morning, around 25 fire teams, including volunteers, were called to the area of Kfar HaOranim, located near Modi'in Illit to contain wildfires in the area, which engulfed a number of houses.
Air support also arrived, and rescue services requested that residents of the village evacuate.
The amount of emergency service workers was not enough, however, and a request was sent for more fire teams and air support in addition to teams already at the scene. The fire department released a statement that read: "There is no control over the fire."
Lebanon’s Deputy Chief-of-Staff Brigadier, Yassin to lead maritime talks with Israel….
10 October 2020
Israel’s Yuval Steinitz [pictured above] will face two Lebanese generals in the US-mediated maritime border talks due to open on October 14 at Naqoura, UNIFIL’s headquarters.
Lebanese sources disclose they are Deputy Chief of Staff of the Lebanese Armed Forces for Operations, Brigadier General Pilot Bassam Yassin, and Navy Colonel Mazen Basbous.
With them will be maritime borders expert Najib Msihi and Lebanese Petroleum Administration (LPA) Board Member Wissam Chbat.
David Schenker, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, [pictured below] will tie up the last details and modalities when he visits Beirut on October 12.
The two delegations will sit in the same room, but not talk directly, as Lebanon refuses to treat the event as a step towards peace after 30 years in a state of belligerency.
Hizballah has made this plain.
The delegations will therefore pretend to communicate through the Head of the UNIFIL Mission and Force Commander, Major General Stefano Del Col. and UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon. Jan Kubis.
President Michel Aoun chose the negotiating team in the absence of a functioning government. Beirut is still in the throes of a crippling political crisis.
The nub of the dispute between Lebanon and Israel is a narrow triangle of about 860 square km of the Mediterranean Sea (Block 9), where the claims of the two sides claims overlap.
Both claim it should be part of their own exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the interests of exploiting underwater energy fields.
With its economy in tatters and its capital ravaged by a huge explosion in August, Lebanon desperately hopes that successful negotiations with Israel will open up the country to foreign investments and a chance of recovery.
Its negotiators will focus on two maritime keys: point B1, which represents the last transition point between the land and the sea and is key to the demarcation process, and the trijunction point connecting the waters of Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus, which triggered a related dispute in 2010.
Palestinians Accuse Trump of Faking Corona Infection……
10 October 2020
Official Palestinian Authority newspaper hints that Trump faked being sick “to win sympathy” and avoid the next presidential debate.
Nevertheless, doctors at Walter Reed Hospital cleared Trump for public events beginning today!
The official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority ran a front page editorial this week with the headline “Trump’s Corona – False Claims and Expectations,” questioning at one point if U.S. President Donald Trump faked being sick with COVID-19 to score political points.
The editorial said that if the claim is true that Trump is deceiving the American people, it is because Trump wants to gain the sympathy of American voters and avoid future presidential debates.
The fact that Trump’s infection was announced shortly after his debate with Biden makes it logical that Trump wants to avoid future debates by feigning illness, claimed the editorial in the Al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper, which was translated by the Israeli watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch.
The Palestinians are still furious with Trump for his Middle East peace plan, and they have lambasted the president while refusing to even talk to the Americans.
Palestinian officials were livid when the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain both signed peace treaties with Israel last month at a ceremony hosted by Trump at the White House.
The Palestinians said the Gulf states making peace was a “stab in the back,” even as the Arab leaders called for the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table where they would help them reach an agreement with Israel.
The problem of course is that Trump has called their bluff, and told the Arab Palestinians that if they abide by certain commitments they can have their “Palestinian State”
One of these quite reasonable stipulations is that they recognise Israel as a Jewish state – and of course this they will never ever do. Checkmate.
Israel and Jordan sign Historic Aviation Agreement…
10 October 2020
FROM THE JERUSALEM POST: According to the media outlet, the agreement allows direct flights from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, as well as other countries in the region, to fly over Israeli airspace to and from destinations in Europe and North America.
The agreement was reportedly signed between commercial airlines in Israel and Jordan and the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) following several years of negotiations, with the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, commonly known as EUROCONTROL, as the mediator.
The recent peace agreement between Israel and the UAE and the subsequent agreement with Bahrain, as well as the Saudi go-ahead for Israeli fly-overs, helped advance the open skies agreement.
"Once again, we make another breakthrough, this time in the air," Transportation Minister Miri Regev (Likud) [pictured below]said Thursday, "Thanks to the agreement, Israel fits better in the region."
Israel is "opening new channels for transportation, economic and diplomatic cooperation with states with whom we share borders and common interests, [states] that are part of the vision of peace in the region," Regev added.
"I hope we will soon be able to announce new developments."
The agreement is expected to significantly shorten flight times between the West and the Gulf states, as well as Asia and the Far East.
It is also expected to minimise fuel consumption, reducing the air industry's carbon footprint.
Nagorno-Karabakh: Russian fighters bombed the positions of Turkish ‘Mercenaries’…
10 October 2020
MOSCOW, - The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh continues to complicate and build a crisis in the region, which is unknown how it will end in the future.
According to Russian and Syrian intelligence, in both Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh, hundreds of Syrian mercenaries have been transported to training camps.
Sources claim that from the beginning of the conflict until now, Russian military intelligence has seriously taken the opportunity to investigate the places where some kind of military training of Syrian mercenaries is taking place, which will later intervene in the conflict in favour of Azerbaijan.
The same sources claim that only a few hours after the intelligence was processed, Russian fighter jets of the Russian aerospace forces bombed these positions in order to destroy and prevent the possibility of these “terrorist” groups developing into large-scale structures.
Sources claim that air strikes on mercenary positions and camps on the territory of Karabakh were destroyed, and hundreds of mercenaries were killed during the air raid.
Thus, Moscow continues its campaign to eliminate Syrian terrorist groups, and provides “unofficial” assistance to Yerevan in the conflict with Baku.
According to unofficial information from local sources, about a thousand Syrian mercenaries have been sent to Karabakh since the beginning of the conflict.
Don Stewart's BREAKING NEWS – 09 October 2020
Israel Report
Editor; Mike Claydon
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