Tuesday, March 10, 2020

3/10/20

No Jews on Temple Mount? Arab List makes demands in exchange for backing Gantz The Arab party, the Joint List, has demands in exchange for its cooperation.

MK Ayman Odeh details concessions demanded in return for his party's support Joint Arab List chair Ayman Odeh demands specific concessions in return for supporting minority gov't under Gantz leadership.

Likud starts preparing for fourth election Likud officials said Tuesday that the most likely scenario was that "political instability would continue."

Iran: The Mullahs' Coronavirus Lies Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, recently called the coronavirus a "blessing."

Israel travel restrictions could ease when virus spreads locally Orders for all visitors arriving in Israel to self-isolate for two weeks could be eased if the coronavirus outbreak begins to spread locally en masse, one of the country's epidemic management team said on Tuesday.

Israel vs. Hezbollah: The Third Lebanon War Ever since the 2006 war, Israel has preferred to contain Hezbollah rather than fight it directly.

'Fragile' Europe faces new influx of radicalized Syrian refugees A threatened influx of Syrian refugees would force Europe to cope with a population that is poorer, more bewildered by years of war, and more prone to radicalism than the wave of refugees who swamped Western Europe five years ago and incited a political backlash.

Turkey hopes for new refugee deal with EU before March 26 Foreign Minister Cavusoglu says Ankara ready to work constructively to reach agreement with bloc before next EU summit.

Turkey wants to rebuild Syria with the country's oil income, Erdogan says The Turkish president proposed to use the income from the oil reserves in Kurdish-controlled town of Qamishli and in southern Deir Ezzor.

Can Turkey Defeat Russia's Army in Syria? "The correlation of forces is decidedly against Russia in Syria," says Michael Kofman, a researcher at the Center for Naval Analyses thinktank, and an expert on the Russian military.