Israel Brief: Sunday, August 2
Trump called off the Iran strike again and announced Israel's agreement to the deal that replaced it — Jerusalem has said nothing.
Shavua tov, friends. Today’s brief runs a bit long — we had a lot of ground to cover since Thursday’s edition, and due to reader feedback, I’m trying to make sure there’s a little more context. We’ll be adjusting it over the coming few days.
— Uri
Hamas signed a roadmap for its own disarmament that opens with Israel's obligations and puts the Israeli pullback before any of it, and Israel did not offer its signature on such a farce. Erdogan asked for a place on Israel's northern border once UNIFIL is wound up. What Israel settled on its own went under the Beaufort Ridge — 700 tons of it, on charges laid weeks ago and shelved for the framework's sake.
Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less
Iran: Trump calls off the American strike and announces a Hormuz deal Jerusalem has not confirmed. See The War Today.
Gaza: Hamas signs a disarmament roadmap that opens with Israel's obligations, and Israel rightly refuses to sign it. See The War Today.
Lebanon: Seven hundred tons of explosive brought down Hezbollah's Bader Unit command post under the Beaufort Ridge, and the Galilee Panhandle felt it. See The War Today.
Givati: A battalion walks off Sde Teiman, fourteen go to military prison, and Zamir asks for more battalions. See Inside Israel.
Haredi draft: Hundreds of haredi men, marching to fete the men arrested for rioting at a High Court justice's home, chase three off-duty soldiers of Netzah Yehuda — the battalion the state built so a haredi man could serve — through Jerusalem. See Inside Israel.
Judea and Samaria: Police seize a soldier's rifle over a shooting as Israelis walk back to the ground where two of them were killed. See Inside Israel.
Turkey: Erdogan asks for a role in whatever replaces UNIFIL on Israel's northern border. See Israel and the World.
The Hague: Rubio opens a campaign to break the ICC, and Trump says it is to defend Netanyahu. See Israel and the World.
Spain: Sanchez's transport minister points at Israel to explain the sixty thousand who crossed at Ceuta. See Israel and the World.
Columbia: The graduate union drops its divestment demand as the university opens its Tel Aviv center. See Israel and the World.
Diaspora: Canada condemns the burning of Nöam, a Montreal kosher restaurant, and charges nobody, and a federal judge frees the man who rammed Chabad headquarters. See Israel and the World.
Michigan: The state's Jewish attorney general says she does not feel safe at her own party's convention. See Israel and the World.
Police arrested sixty-three men over the riot at a High Court justice's home and prosecutors indicted four, and on Thursday night the rest of them got a stage and a crowd. Canada's ministers condemned the burning of Nöam within hours and have charged nobody for a week of gunfire at Jewish businesses.
Today: the Iran deal Trump announced in Israel's name, the roadmap Hamas signed and Israel refused, and 700 tons under Beaufort.
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