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.**
This week, Alpher discusses whether there is any chance former US President Jimmy Carter will succeed in generating Palestinian unity where everyone else has failed when he arrives in the region this Thursday to mediate between Hamas and Fateh, in cooperation with Saudi Arabia; if Israel’s northern front is heating up or if recent incidents are connected to events in the Syrian civil war; how US involvement in the Saudi-led effort in Yemen, directed against Iranian intervention squares with the US-led nuclear talks with Iran; why Israel couldn’t observe the centenary of the Armenian genocide on April 24.
Congress has a long record of supporting and defending Israel's security, Israel's economy,
Israel's position and treatment in international organizations and the international community, Israel's right
to self-defense, and Israel's reputation as a nation that seeks peace. For this it deserves credit.
Congress also has a long record of refusing to affirmatively support Israel's policy of building settlements in the occupied territories, including, for example, by barring the use of U.S.-backed loan guarantees for settlement activity. For this too, Congress deserves credit. Israel's settlements enterprise runs counter to the policy of every U.S. administration since 1967, whether led by a Republican or Democrat, and runs counter to Israel's own interests. Settlements undermine Israel's security, erode Israel's position in the international community and belie Israel's commitment to peace and the two-state solution - and if there is no two-state solution, Israel cannot survive as both a democracy and a Jewish state.
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+.**
