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Tel Aviv [Israel], October 9 (ANI): As <keyword id="39745" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="hamas" source="Orion">Hamas</keyword> terror groups continued their attack on <keyword id="6355882" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="israel" source="Orion">Israel</keyword> for the third consecutive day, at least 700 people have been killed and over 2000 injured and the numbers are expected to rise further, reported The Times of Israel. Israel has declared a state of war on Sunday when Israeli Prime Minister <keyword id="6358722" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="benjamin-netanyahu" source="Orion">Benjamin Netanyahu</keyword> issued a stern warning to Hamas, claiming that it had begun a terrible war and that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) would use all of its strength to undermine their capacity. According to the Government Press Office, a body that operates under the Israeli PM's office noted that over 100 people have been taken as hostages in Gaza. Moreover, Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Sunday night said that they have been holding some 130 Israeli hostages and claimed that this includes high-ranking army officials, the Times of Israel reported. Following the announcement by the Israeli PM, noting that the country is at war, Israeli jets carried out "intense" airstrikes on targets in Gaza on Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, according to the reports by Jerusalem Post Senior Military and Intelligence Analyst, Yonah Jeremy Bob, the IDF has undertaken 1149 airstrikes on Gaza as of Monday morning, marking a jump of around 800 since Sunday midday, reported The Jerusalem Post. Additionally, there are still six ongoing fights with Hamas in Israeli villages on the Gaza corridor, his report added. Moreover, Strategic Affairs Minister <keyword id="2821998" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="ron-dermer" source="Orion">Ron Dermer</keyword> told CNN in an interview that the death toll was "well north of 600 people," adding, "There will probably be more hundreds, several hundred more." In a retaliatory move against the Hamas attack in Israel, the Israel Air Force on Monday attacked various buildings where the leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas was staying, along with several operational headquarters. According to the Israel Air Force, the air force also attacked a headquarters spread over an area of three floors and a headquarters associated with the senior Hamas naval force, <keyword id="19066554" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="muhammad-kashta" source="Orion">Muhammad Kashta</keyword>. Moreover, the Air Force also destroyed an operational asset used by the terrorist organization, which is located in the heart of a mosque in the Jabaliya area. (ANI)

700 people dead, over 2,000 injured as Hamas attack continues for third day

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Benjamin Netanyahu described the techniques used to turn Donald Trump against Palestinians in his new memoir.</li><li>It included a map of Israel and Palestine, with Trump Tower and George Washington Bridge superimposed on it.</li></ul>Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used comparative maps of New York City and Israel and golfing metaphors to turn former President Donald Trump against Palestinians, according to his new memoir.The revelations come from Netanyahu's "Bibi: My Story," in a pre-release copy which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/benjamin-netanyahu-golf-donald-trump-palestinians-israel-peace-book">The Guardian</a> obtained.According to The Guardian's reporting on the memoir, Netanyahu said he used a variety of creative strategies in meetings with Trump that he hoped would resonate with the then-president and get him on board with Israel's interests.One such strategy was using visual aids. According to The Guardian, Netanyahu wrote in his memoir that he once presented a "simple slide" containing a map comparing certain distances in Israel to distances in New York City."It showed the distance from Tel Aviv to the 1967 lines to which the Palestinians demanded we retreat," Netanyahu wrote, per The Guardian. "Superimposed on the map was the distance from Trump Tower to the George Washington Bridge."Netanyahu wrote that the two distances "were identical." The distance between Trump Tower and George Washington Bridge is a little over six miles. According to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/24/israel.1967/index.html#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20it's%20noted%20that,Strip%2C%20then%20under%20Egyptian%20rule.">CNN,</a> Tel Aviv is roughly 11 miles from the 1967 demarcation line."'Mr. President,' I said, 'would you let a regime that wants to annihilate you set up a state at the George Washington Bridge? Of course not. Neither would we,'" Netanyahu wrote in his memoir, per The Guardian.<div type="image" title="Trump LIV Golf" height="3840" width="5119" msid="94884060" hostid="261"></div>According to the media outlet, Netanyahu also wrote in his memoir that he and Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the US, used golfing metaphors to get through to Trump.Per The Guardian, Netanyahu recalled Dermer telling Trump: "Peace with the Emirates is a five-foot putt. Peace with the Saudis is a 30-foot putt. And peace with the Palestinians is a hole-in-one through a brick wall."Netanyahu wrote in his memoir that Trump "got it," The Guardian reported. "For the time being, at least, we had certainly moved him to a better place."Netanyahu also wrote that he and David Friedman, then the US ambassador to Israel, played a video to Trump designed to "adjust his thinking" about Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.The video sought to portray Abbas as untrustworthy, The Guardian said, showing the Palestinian leader talking about peace in English and praising terrorists in Arabic."I could see that the video registered with Trump, at least momentarily," Netanyahu wrote, per The Guardian. The former Israeli prime minister added that he had hoped the video would "mitigate further bonding" between Trump and Abbas.In January 2020, toward the end of Trump's time in the White House, his administration proposed a plan to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict.At a joint press conference with Trump, Netanyahu praised it as <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/01/29/netanyahu-traded-israels-independence-for-the-deal-of-the-century/">"the deal of the century."</a> Abbas, however, rejected the plan and described it as the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-reactions-idUSKBN1ZR2BN">"slap of the century."</a>

Netanyahu appealed to Trump's love of golf and used NYC maps to turn the president against Palestinians, new memoir says

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12110143" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jared-kushner" source="Orion">Jared Kushner</keyword> said <keyword id="6355882" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="israel" source="Orion">Israel</keyword>'s ambassador to the US could "go fuck himself" over a normalization deal.</li><li>Barak Ravid writes in his book about the US's deal with Israel to normalize relations with the UAE.</li></ul>White House advisor Jared Kushner told his Middle East envoy that Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer could "go fuck himself" if he disagreed with a proposed deal involving then-Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's requests for normalization agreements with Arab nations, <a href="https://forward.com/news/479427/barak-ravid-trump-netanyahu-book-israel-united-states-interview/">journalist Barak Ravid told the Forward in an interview.</a>Ravid's new book "Trump's Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East," details how things went off the rails after the rocky rollout of the two nations' "peace plan" for the Middle East.The so-called "Deal of the Century" involved no discussions with Palestinian leaders, who <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/28/us-is-no-longer-an-actor-peace-other-nations-must-now-pressure-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">promptly rejected it</a>. The deal overwhelmingly favored Israel on a number of contentious issues and opened the door to more annexation of the West Bank.But <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-yelled-what-the-hell-was-that-over-middle-east-plan-book-2021-12">Netanyahu stunned Trump</a>, according to Ravid, by indicating at the two leaders' January 2020 joint appearance unveiling the deal that the agreement gave him carte blanche to immediately move forward with aggressive annexation of the area.Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-yelled-what-the-hell-was-that-over-middle-east-plan-book-2021-12">yelled "what the hell was that?" after Netanyahu departed</a>, according to Ravid, with one former Trump official saying <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netanyahu-treated-trump-like-a-flowerpot-at-peace-deal-rollout-book-2021-12">Netanyahu treated Trump "like a flowerpot"</a> for his own political ends. White House Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-envoy-told-netanyahu-the-president-doesnt-really-like-you-book-2021-12">bluntly informed Dermer that</a> "the president doesn't like you guys now" when Dermer asked to meet with the president following the rollout. Ravid wrote. Later, Dermer found himself on the receiving end of Kushner's wrath when he questioned the White House's trustworthiness, Ravid said, a blowup that resulted in the ambassador getting kicked out of the White House."Don't be mistaken to think that everything that happened in the past three years was for you. We did it because we were serious about peace," Kushner yelled at Dermer, according to Ravid's book. "To say such a thing about us is disgusting. Get out."The United Arab Emirates then stepped in to propose a lifeline to help ease the impasse on both sides, offering to broker a deal that would normalize diplomatic relations with Israel in exchange for a three-year delay in their West Bank annexation plans. Netanyahu and Dermer wanted normalization agreements with three Arab nations in order for Israel go along with the plan — but Kushner was having none of it. "Tell Ron that one country is all he's getting, and if he doesn't want it, let him go fuck himself," Kushner instructed Berkowitz to convey to Dermer, according to Ravid."The UAE had their own interest to move ahead with normalization with Israel to prevent a crisis in the region and preserve a two-state solution," <a href="https://forward.com/news/479427/barak-ravid-trump-netanyahu-book-israel-united-states-interview/">Ravid told the Forward</a>. "But they brought the ladder that allowed both the White House and Netanyahu to climb down from the tree."Netanyahu tried to go back on the deal at the 11th hour, according to Ravid, but the wheels had already been set in motion for normalization. Later, in addition to playing a key role in drawing up <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-middle-east-peace-plan-pr-stunt-for-israel-netanyahu-2020-1">the Trump administration's "peace plan" for the Middle East, </a>Kushner helped orchestrate the Abraham Accords.Under the landmark accords, the UAE and Bahrain formalized diplomatic ties with Israel in September 2020. Two more Arab countries, Morocco and Sudan, joined the Abraham Accords not long after. Kushner <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-middle-east-peace-op-ed-last-vestiges-israel-2021-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">took a premature victory lap</a> in a March 2021 op-ed, contending that he'd helped wind down the "last vestiges of what has been known as the Arab-Israeli conflict."But devastating fighting between Israel and Hamas in May led Trump to question whether Kushner had accomplished <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-questioned-kushner-peace-middle-east-israel-hamas-violence-2021-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">"peace in the Middle East after all,"</a> per a June 2021 CNN report.

Jared Kushner said the Israeli ambassador could 'go fuck himself' if he disapproved of plans to normalize relations with Arab countries, book says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Trump's Middle East envoy warned Netanyahu "the president doesn't really like you these days."</li><li>Netanyahu's West Bank annexation plans strained US-Israel relations, journalist Barak Ravid writes in his book. </li></ul>Former White House envoy to the Middle East Avi Berkowitz warned former Israeli Prime Minister <keyword id="11955079" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="benjamin-netanyahu" source="Orion">Benjamin Netanyahu</keyword> that then-President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> "doesn't really like you these days" over Netanyahu's controversial annexation plans, <a href="https://forward.com/news/479427/barak-ravid-trump-netanyahu-book-israel-united-states-interview/">journalist Barak Ravid told the Forward in an interview. </a>Ravid's book "Trump's Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East," <a href="https://forward.com/news/479427/barak-ravid-trump-netanyahu-book-israel-united-states-interview/">details the tumult and breakdown of relations in the US-Israel relationship</a> during the Trump years as both countries' leaders sought to strike deals while advancing their own political interests. In early 2020, the Trump administration unveiled a "peace plan" for the Middle East. The so-called "Deal of the Century" involved no discussions with Palestinian leaders, and they <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/28/us-is-no-longer-an-actor-peace-other-nations-must-now-pressure-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">promptly rejected it</a>.Critics said it was misleading to call it a "peace plan," dismissing it as little more than <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-middle-east-peace-plan-pr-stunt-for-israel-netanyahu-2020-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a PR stunt for Netanyahu</a> ahead of an election. "There was no meaningful consultation with the Palestinians over the past two years, and the result is a plan that would be very difficult for any Palestinian leader to accept and defend to their people," Dan Shapiro, the US ambassador to Israel under former President Barack Obama, told Insider at the time.The plan, crafted by Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, overwhelmingly favored Israel on a number of contentious issues. Among them, the plan pledged to keep Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital, recognized Israeli sovereignty over settlements in the occupied West Bank considered illegal under <keyword id="6356001" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="international" source="Orion">international</keyword> law, and stipulated that Israel would provide for Palestine's security.But, at January 28, 2020, joint appearance unveiling, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-yelled-what-the-hell-was-that-over-middle-east-plan-book-2021-12">Netanyahu stunned and rankled Trump</a> by indicating that the deal gave him carte blanche to move forward with aggressive annexation of the West Bank. Even though the peace deal opened the door for Israel to annex up to 30% of the West Bank, Trump and the White House <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netanyahu-treated-trump-like-a-flowerpot-at-peace-deal-rollout-book-2021-12">felt rolled by Netanyahu</a> — <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-annexation.html">and successfully pressured Israel to push off its immediate annexation plans</a>. In late 2016, the outgoing Obama administration allowed a UN vote <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2016/12/23/14071550/united-nations-vote-israeli-settlements-obama-trump">to proceed</a> that condemned the settlement expansion under Netanyahu. Trump, then the president-elect, opposed that and his administration would later seek even more accommodations of Israel that some ex-diplomats warned could give the US <a href="https://www.cfr.org/report/rethinking-us-policy-toward-palestinians">less leverage</a>.The Trump administration took a number of steps that went against decades of US policy and the longstanding goal of a two-state solution, including moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and declaring that the US no longer viewed West Bank settlements <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-upends-us-policy-israel-shattering-hope-middle-east-peace-2019-11">as illegal</a> under international law. The Biden administration has not changed the location of the embassy, but has gone back to traditional US policy by strongly pushing against the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.When then-Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer asked to speak directly to Trump after the unveiling of the day, Berkowitz bluntly informed the ambassador, "the president doesn't like you guys now."Shortly afterward, Dermer got into an all-out blowup with Kushner after he questioned the White House's trustworthiness, Ravid said, a meeting which ended with Kushner yelling at Dermer and kicking him out of the White House.Later that year, Berkowitz was dispatched to Israel to directly inform Netanyahu that Trump was unhappy with the Israeli PM over his annexation plans — and wouldn't come to his rescue if they got Netanyahu into hot water, Ravid said.Netanyahu, Ravid said, was "angry and grouchy" to see Berkowitz, whom he suspected of leaking details about the discord between the two nations to the media. "It's almost certain Trump will tweet against you," Berkowitz warned, adding that the US also wouldn't come to Israel's defense if the nation's West Bank annexation came under scrutiny in the International Criminal Court."The president will criticize such a pro-Israel move so close to the election?" Netanyahu queried Berkowitz, according to Ravid. "The president doesn't really like you these days," Berkowitz replied. "You will take your best friend and turn him into an enemy."The once-chummy relationship between the two leaders fully broke down after the 2020 election, when Trump was enraged over Netanyahu acknowledging President Joe Biden's victory. Trump plainly told Ravid, "fuck him" <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-turned-on-netanyahu-for-accepting-biden-election-win-axios-2021-12">in an interview for the book.</a>

Trump's Middle East envoy warned former Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu 'the president doesn't really like you these days,' book says

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer held a Twitter question-and-answer session Thursday morning, amid escalating <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-and-hamas-cease-fire-is-fragile-2014-7" target="_blank">violence in the Gaza strip between Israeli and Hamas forces</a>.
Like past iterations of political Twitter Q&amp;As, Dermer's hashtag, "#AskDermer," was hijacked by activists. The hashtag was filled with hundreds of questions from Twitter users critical of Israel's strategy, with a mix of cynicism, snark, and anger. At least 230 people in Gaza have been killed since the fighting began 10 days ago, as well as one Israeli.
Many questions were aimed at the deaths of four children on a Gaza beach Wednesday. Here's a sampling: 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AskDermer?src=hash">#AskDermer</a> what would you do if someone had bombed and shelled Florida killing 50 children in 10 days? Would you fight back?
- Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) <a href="https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/statuses/489753002907951106">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AskDermer?src=hash">#AskDermer</a> what happened when <a href="https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson">@IDFSpokesperson</a> murdered 4 Palestinian kids in front of a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash">#Gaza</a> hotel of journalists <a href="http://t.co/oPXue23MuM">http://t.co/oPXue23MuM</a>
- Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallStNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/OccupyWallStNYC/statuses/489659749777285120">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
What is your excuse for what your airstrikes have done to this Gazan family? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AskDermer?src=hash">#AskDermer</a> <a href="http://t.co/SkLVhNYZ2f">pic.twitter.com/SkLVhNYZ2f</a>
- Ali Rjoub (@Ali_Rjoub) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ali_Rjoub/statuses/489581486991872001">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>
The Israeli publication Haaretz <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.605708?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">said</a> Dermer got "what he asked for" by holding the Q&amp;A. Dermer took it all in stride, even engaging with some of the critics:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/fullyspectrumed">@fullyspectrumed</a> Israel cares more about Pal civilians in Gaza than Hamas. We try to get them out of harms way. They put them in harm's way
- Amb. Ron Dermer (@AmbDermer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbDermer/statuses/489755494303551489">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/TOactivist">@TOactivist</a> Actually, if you turn your hospital into a command post &amp; missile launching site you do. But Israel hasn't.
- Amb. Ron Dermer (@AmbDermer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbDermer/statuses/489755778778009600">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/NTagouri">@NTagouri</a> Genocide? Attempt to exterminate another people? Are you serious?
- Amb. Ron Dermer (@AmbDermer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbDermer/statuses/489756528035893249">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/NTagouri">@NTagouri</a> Genocide=Holocaust. 6 million Jews murdered. 10k murdered everyday in May 1944 in Auschwitz.
- Amb. Ron Dermer (@AmbDermer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbDermer/statuses/489756937106378752">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/akahnnyc">@akahnnyc</a> You think America would use less force than what Israel is using? Seriously?
- Amb. Ron Dermer (@AmbDermer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbDermer/statuses/489759165703680001">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/OccupyWallStNYC">@OccupyWallStNYC</a> When Jews come 2 Israel, they're coming home. Hope 1 day, Palestinian refugees will have a home of their own next 2 Israel
- Amb. Ron Dermer (@AmbDermer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbDermer/statuses/489761446201683968">July 17, 2014</a></blockquote>

An Israeli Ambassador Tried To Hold A Chat Over Twitter, And It Turned Into A Disaster

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>The Israeli government will block Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country days before their planned visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Israeli broadcaster <a href="https://twitter.com/danawt/status/1161952978904985601">reported</a> Thursday morning.&#xa0;</li><li>An Israeli government official <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/netanyahu-considers-blocking-omar-tlaib-from-entering-israel-ahead-of-a-planned-weekend-visit/2019/08/15/d69983ce-d15b-4074-8590-c6f69bd4a084_story.html">told The Washington Post</a> on Thursday that Tlaib may be granted an exception if she submits a humanitarian request to visit her family in the occupied West Bank.&#xa0;</li><li>Tlaib, a Detroit native whose parents emigrated from Palestine, and Omar, a Somali-American former refugee who represents Minneapolis, are the first two Muslim women to serve in the US House.&#xa0;&#xa0;</li><li>The decision is a reversal following the Israeli government's announcement last month that the two lawmakers would be permitted to visit the country "out of respect for the US Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America."</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>The Israeli government will block Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country days before their planned visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Israeli broadcaster first <a href="https://twitter.com/danawt/status/1161952978904985601">reported</a> Thursday morning.&#xa0;The Israeli government reportedly cited Omar and Tlaib's support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to punish Israel over its treatment of the Palestinian people. Israel recently banned the granting of visas to foreign nationals who publicly support any boycott of the Jewish state or its West Bank settlements.The Democratic lawmakers were scheduled to arrive on Sunday on a trip organized by the non-profit organization Miftah, which is led by a Palestinian lawmaker and peace negotiator.&#xa0;Tlaib, a Detroit native whose parents emigrated from Palestine, and Omar, a Somali-American former refugee who represents Minneapolis, are the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress. The congresswomen have been outspoken in their criticism of Israel and US-Israel policy and they've both made comments widely denounced as anti-Semitic.&#xa0;Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ilhan-omar-israel-comments-consume-congress-trump-pelosi-ocasio-cortez-2019-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments about Israel are consuming Congress with Trump, Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all taking sides</a>An Israeli government official <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/netanyahu-considers-blocking-omar-tlaib-from-entering-israel-ahead-of-a-planned-weekend-visit/2019/08/15/d69983ce-d15b-4074-8590-c6f69bd4a084_story.html">told The Washington Post</a> on Thursday that Tlaib may be granted an exception if she submits a humanitarian request to visit her family in the occupied West Bank. The Post reported that Tlaib hoped to spend a few days visiting her grandmother in the West Bank.&#xa0;The Israeli government's decision is a reversal following their announcement last month that the lawmakers would be permitted to visit the country. Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer previously said Israel wouldn't bar any American lawmakers from entering the country "out of respect for the US Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America."President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked the two progressive lawmakers, labeled them anti-Semitic, and told them to "go back" to the countries they came from - comments widely denounced as racist. Tlaib was born in the US, and Omar is naturalized US citizen.Trump <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-tells-advisers-israel-should-bar-entry-omar-tlaib-a5a1977b-9862-420c-bf01-fa1936b0eec4.html">reportedly</a> told advisers that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should bar Omar and Tlaib from entering the country. The White House denied the report.Spokespeople for Reps. Tlaib, Omar, and the Israel government did not immediately respond to INSIDER's requests for comment.&#xa0;The move will likely be heavily criticized among Democrats and some Jewish groups in the US. Some critics were quick to make their disagreement known on Thursday morning.&#xa0;"Original Israeli decision to allow Tlaib/Omar visit was wise. Reversal makes little sense," <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielBShapiro/status/1161961893810114561">tweeted</a> Dan Shapiro, a former US ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama. "I disagree with their stands on Israel, have criticized them. But zero harm in letting them come learn, see (even if they had an agenda). Reversal harms Israel's standing in US, boosts BDS."&#xa0;<div></div>

Israel bars Democratic lawmakers Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-donald-trump-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-4?r=US&amp;IR=T">President Donald Trump</a> publicly urged the Israeli government to bar Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country on Thursday shortly before the Israeli government barred the lawmakers.&#xa0;</li><li>"It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep.Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel &amp; all Jewish people, &amp; there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds," Trump tweeted.</li><li> Israel passed a law in 2017 allowing it to deny entry to foreign nationals who publicly support any boycott of the Jewish state or its West Bank settlements.</li><li>"We will not allow the congresswomen to enter the country. We will not allow anyone who denies our right to exist in the world to enter the country. In principle, this is a very correct decision," Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said Thursday.&#xa0;</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-donald-trump-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-4?r=US&amp;IR=T">President Donald Trump</a> publicly urged the Israeli government to bar Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country on Thursday shortly before the Israeli government barred the lawmakers.&#xa0;"It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep.Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel &amp; all Jewish people, &amp; there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds," Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1162000480681287683">tweeted</a>. "Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office. They are a disgrace!" &#xa0;Trump's move is an extraordinary break from precedent and an aggressive attempt to influence a foreign ally and hurt a political opponent.&#xa0;Omar and Tlaib, the first two Muslim women elected to the US Congress, planned to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories beginning on Sunday.&#xa0;The Israeli government is reportedly concerned with Omar and Tlaib's support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to punish Israel over its treatment of the Palestinian people, an Israeli broadcaster <a href="https://twitter.com/danawt/status/1161952978904985601">reported</a> Thursday morning. Israel passed a law in 2017 allowing it to deny entry to foreign nationals who publicly support any boycott of the Jewish state or its West Bank settlements."We will not allow the congresswomen to enter the country. We will not allow anyone who denies our right to exist in the world to enter the country. In principle, this is a very correct decision," Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Final-decision-Israel-will-bar-Rashida-Tlaib-and-Ilhan-Omar-report-598725">said Thursday</a>.&#xa0;Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-bars-democratic-freshmen-reps-ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-2019-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">Israel bars Democratic lawmakers Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country</a>The decision is a reversal of the Israeli administration's previous position on the issue. Last month, Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer said the country wouldn't bar any American lawmakers from entering "out of respect for the US Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America."President Trump has repeatedly attacked the two progressive lawmakers, labeled them anti-Semitic, and told them to "go back" to the countries they came from - comments widely denounced as racist. Tlaib was born in the US, and Omar is a naturalized US citizen.Trump <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-tells-advisers-israel-should-bar-entry-omar-tlaib-a5a1977b-9862-420c-bf01-fa1936b0eec4.html">reportedly</a> told advisers that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should bar Omar and Tlaib from entering the country. The White House denied the report at the time.&#xa0;Trump's move will likely be met with significant opposition, including from within his own party.House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, told reporters in Jerusalem on Sunday that he thinks "all should come" to Israel.&#xa0;"I feel very secure in this, that anyone who comes with open ears, open eyes and an open mind will walk away with an understanding, just as all these members here do, that this bond is unbreakable," McCarthy said.&#xa0;The Democratic Majority for Israel, a pro-Israel group, said in a statement that "there is simply no excuse for any country, including Israel, to prevent travel by elected officials of the United States," despite the group's disagreements with Omar and Tlaib.&#xa0;&#xa0;The Democratic lawmakers were scheduled to arrive on Sunday on a trip organized by the non-profit organization Miftah, which is led by a Palestinian lawmaker and peace negotiator.&#xa0;The congresswomen have been outspoken in their criticism of Israel and US-Israel policy. 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Thomson ReutersIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a weekly cabinet meeting in JerusalemIsrael <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/middleeast/israel-trump-classified-intelligence-russia.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">was reportedly</a> the source of the highly classified intelligence President Donald Trump <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mcmaster-trump-russia-classified-information-2017-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">disclosed to Russian diplomats last week</a>. 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Israel was reportedly warned months ago about the exact scenario that just played out between Trump and Russia

<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image">REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaSmoke rising over the Gaza Strip after an Israeli strike</div></div>Israel and Hamas have vastly different objectives in their conflict in the Gaza Strip.
At least publicly, Israel is defining victory as a return to the status quo. Today, Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu convened his <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-israel-gaza-death-toll-20140711,0,7150406.story">first question and answer-type press conference in over two years</a>. Instead of using the occasion to announce a ground operation or even an intensified aerial campaign, Netanyahu said: "The military strikes will continue until we can be certain that the quiet has returned to Israeli citizens."
On a conference call with reporters earlier today, Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., echoed this, saying "the goal is essentially to restore quiet to Israel."
Israel already has a template for an acceptable outcome in Gaza. During the last major escalation in 2012, Israel destroyed nearly the entirety of Hamas's Iranian-made long-range Fajr 5 rocket arsenal and secured a ceasefire that held for over 18 months - 2013 saw <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/173628">only 40 total rocket attacks</a>, half as many as took place last Monday alone.
With no real appetite for a full-scale invasion and possible blowback from a protracted ground war - ranging from international condemnation to added chaos in Gaza in the event of Hamas's violent overthrow - Israel's goals are probably the same as the last time around. They want to stop the rocket fire and destroy long range rockets that can hit major population centers.
Israel is already advancing towards that objective, with Israeli TV reporting that the Army believes <a href="https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/487336074826354688">one third </a>of Hamas's long-range arsenal has been used or destroyed.
Their destruction is the closest Israel can get to its version of victory. One of the more overlooked aspects of the long-running war between Israel and Hamas is Israel's acceptance of a baseline level of violence against communities along the Gaza border. Towns like Sderot are attacked far more frequently than more central areas and are vulnerable to mortar attacks that the Iron Dome system can't intercept. 
Attacks deep in the Israeli interior represent a much graver problem for Israeli policymakers, and Hamas knows it. As a <a href="http://www.stratfor.com/sample/analysis/examining-hamas-rockets">Stratfor report noted today</a>, Hamas will sometimes launch Fajr 5s without a payload, sacrificing destructive power for range and psychological impact. The Syrian-made and Iranian-supplied Khaibar 1 is difficult to aim but carries up to a 330-pound warhead nearly 100 miles. There was a <a href="https://twitter.com/Alarmdarom/status/487503387228114944">red alert in Lod</a> earlier today, the town where Ben Gurion International Airport is located, and Hamas has <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Rocket-alert-sirens-sound-in-Zichron-Yaakov-120-km-north-of-Gaza-362087">fired rockets towards Dimona</a>, home to Israel's nuclear reactor.
Destroying the long-range rockets precludes the possibility of a strategic tipping point for the Israelis: an attack on a piece of vital infrastructure that would have to be treated as the tripwire for a much larger operation.
For Hamas, the definition of victory is less intuitive. Hamas is a radical militant organization with a religiously based ideology; as such, it does not have the same objectives, structure, responsibilities or basic view on the world that a conventional state might have. It can lose equipment, soldiers, and infrastructure, and still "win."
That's arguably what's going on right now. 
As Beirut-based analyst Michael Young <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hamas-is-well-on-its-way-to-winning-the-latest-conflict-in-gaza-2014-7">explained</a> in Now Lebanon, this war has allowed Hamas to show off new weaponry, deepen its ties to Iran, and politically isolate its main domestic ally: the suddenly even-more-hapless-looking Mahmoud Abbas, the aging and dubiously president of the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas may very well be acting in its own rational interests here. The more Israeli bombardments it survives, the more entrenched the group becomes. The more improbable its extermination seems, the more the reality sinks in that the Palestinian Authority, and perhaps, eventually, the Israelis, will have to deal with them as a legitimate political entity, whether they disarm or not.
In this conflict, Hamas is reasserting itself as an indelible fact of life in the region at a time when the group appeared to be at its very weakest. There's even a chance the Palestinian unity government survives this - after all, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has been <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-pas-response-to-the-gaza-escallation-2014-7">hesitant to condemn Hamas's rocket bombardment</a>, and explicitly <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-pounds-gaza-targets-after-rocket-barrage-hits-as-far-north-as-hadera/">compared Israel's Gaza offensive to the Holocaust</a>. He knows Hamas will survives this, and he knows that he'll have no choice but to accommodate them or co-opt their message.
Hamas isn't just acting rationally here. It's also closer to its concept of "victory" in this confrontation than Israel is.

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