APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday April 26, 2015 
 

Quote of the day:

“In truth, it’s wrong for them to dare to spoil the Jewish homogeneity, and on the eve of Memorial Day yet. Arrogant bastards.”
--Omer Senesh wrote cynically on Facebook after witnessing three young Arab men being barred from entering the posh Tel-Aviv shopping mall where he works.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday April 27, 2015 
 

Quote of the day:

"It is dangerous and irresponsible to deposit the education portfolio in the hands of Naftali Bennett. We are at such a critical time. The video going around the Internet yesterday of young people brutally abusing a helpless dog, the violence and racism that long ago left the Internet comments and reached the street, the absolute indifference of so many people to the pain of people living in poverty, of refugees, of Palestinians - those things are closely related to the image of the education system, to the values or lack of values that it bequeaths to the citizens it raises. We must not give its reins to the leader of Messianic nationalism, who has never been ashamed to instigate and incite."
--Meretz party leader Zehava Gal-On fears the likely appointment of far right leader of Habayit Hayehudi, Naftali Bennett, as the next Education Minister.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

 Tuesday April 28, 2015 
 

Quote of the day:

“They were chanting ‘Muhammad is dead’ and ‘Death to the Arabs.’ It’s painful to witness, because these aren’t just chants, it’s incitement that becomes ecstatic. Guys were jumping up and down, adults as well as youngsters. Every year this day brings out the bad in people.”
--Neta Polizer, 26, Hebrew University student, part of a group strategizing how to prevent a 'bad' Jerusalem Day.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday April 29, 2015 
 

Quote of the day:

“I was scared. It was my first time in Ramallah, and before I entered her home, I was really afraid of what I would say, how I would speak with her mother. I had a lot of fears. And then, when I went in, I saw an elderly, tired woman, and the first thing she did when she saw me was hug me. I saw behind her a huge poster of her dead daughter, and during this hug I suddenly felt her daughter, the one she didn’t have. It was all mixed in my head. I was suddenly her daughter, who wanted to kill me, and this confusion — the understanding that all is one, and suffering is suffering, and that a woman who loses her daughter is a woman who loses her daughter no matter where, and that I can be anyone’s daughter — is basically one of the things that brought me to writing the script.” 
--Israeli filmmaker Shira Geffen tells about her visit to the home of a Palestinian suicide bomber in a fascinating interview in Haaretz+.**