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With apologies for the irregular timing of the Round-Up – a victim of summer travel plans…
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 03, 2014
Quote of the day:
"A government that turns the army of searchers to an army of avengers, an army that will not stop at
300 Philistine foreskins."
-- Rabbi Noam Perel, secretary-general of World Bnei Akiva, Zionist religious youth movement, joined the calls of many Israelis to avenge the murder of the three Jewish youth with Palestinian blood.**
-- Rabbi Noam Perel, secretary-general of World Bnei Akiva, Zionist religious youth movement, joined the calls of many Israelis to avenge the murder of the three Jewish youth with Palestinian blood.**
Q. The past week has witnessed the discovery of the three yeshiva students' bodies near Hebron, their highly emotional funeral, the kidnapping and brutal murder of a Palestinian boy from Jerusalem, and the apprehension of his young Jewish murderers. Meanwhile, Arab citizens of Israel are rioting, while rockets from Gaza continue to hit as far as Beersheva. A new intifada?
A. No, or at least, not yet. There are a number of important factors that distinguish the current situation from the circumstances that led to the second intifada that erupted in the fall of 2000; they mitigate against a new one.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 04, 2014
Quote of the day:
"It is time, Mr. Prime Minister, that you step off your high horse and stop being a mere observer,
because we've already seen how easily words turn into a finger on the trigger."
--Meretz party Chairwoman Zahava Gal-On last night at the demonstration in Tel-Aviv against racism, revenge and violence organized by Peace Now.**
--Meretz party Chairwoman Zahava Gal-On last night at the demonstration in Tel-Aviv against racism, revenge and violence organized by Peace Now.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 06, 2014
Quote of the day:
"The tragedy of the innocent boys murdered by terrorists will haunt us for a long time. But it will not
destroy us. Jewish revenge killings will."
-- Rabbi Daniel Landes, Director of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, on the kidnapping, burning and murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, from E. Jerusalem.**
-- Rabbi Daniel Landes, Director of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, on the kidnapping, burning and murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, from E. Jerusalem.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday July 07, 2014
Quote of the day:
"This is a shocking murder, barbaric and sadistic, a brutal terrorist attack, and a provocation to the state.
Woe to us if the appetite for revenge replaces the state and the institutions of the rule of law and order. All
those busy stirring up passions and giving legitimacy to vendettas should remember that also their hands will
be stained with blood."
--Labor MK Shelly Yechimovitz said after the news that the six people suspected of killing an innocent Palestinian teenager by burning him alive were Jews.**
--Labor MK Shelly Yechimovitz said after the news that the six people suspected of killing an innocent Palestinian teenager by burning him alive were Jews.**
Americans for Peace Now (APN) mourns with the Palestinian people the death of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the 16-year-old Palestinian kidnapped and brutally murdered last week in Jerusalem. APN (once again) condemns the kidnapping and the killing, and sends its condolences to the Abu Khdeir family. APN calls on the Israeli government, the Palestinian Authority and all Palestinian factions, to prevent further escalation and further loss of innocent lives.
APN's President and CEO Debra DeLee said:
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday July 08, 2014
Quote of the day:
I want to apologize for the unforgivable.
For the boy whose face in the photograph I can see even with my eyes closed. The face of the boy before he was wrestled into a car by people on my side, who charred him to death.
For the boy whose face in the photograph I can see even with my eyes closed. The face of the boy before he was wrestled into a car by people on my side, who charred him to death.
--Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston writes an apology to the Palestinians 'for the unforgivable, for the
unfathomable, and for all those on my side who never will.'**
Dave Pollock of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy is the author of Beyond Words, a study of Palestinian incitement. In this interview, he talks about his study, about the impact of incitement – both Palestinian and Israeli – and about ways to reduce it.