News Nosh 08.02.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday August 2, 2015 
                
Quote of the day:
“More than feeling ashamed, I feel pain. Pain for the murder of a little baby. Pain that my people have chosen the path of terror and have lost their humanity. Their way is not my way. Their way is not our way. Their way is not the way of the State of Israel and not the way of the Jewish people. Unfortunately, until now, we have treated the phenomenon of Jewish terror loosely. Maybe we didn’t internalize that we are facing an ideological group, determined and dangerous which aims to destroy the delicate bridges we build with great labor.”
--President Reuven Rivlin in his speech at the protest rally in Jerusalem against Israeli violence and in a post on his Facebook page.

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Shame on you," "You are not my president," "You do not represent me in any way," "The President of the Arabs, not the Jews." 
--Some of the comments and curses written on the Facebook page of President Reuven Rivlin after he condemned the attack by Jewish terrorists, who killed a Palestinian baby.
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News Nosh 08.03.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday August 3, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"There are murderers who think that gays are endangering Judaism, there are murderers because they are under occupation, there are murderers because their blood boils over the murder of Jews and there are murderers in order to protect Israel. Every murderer and his reason."
--Moti Fogel, whose brother's family was murdered in 2011 and who saw Shira Banki stabbed last week a day before the murder of a Palestinian toddler, shares his thoughts about hatred and murder in Israeli society.
You Must Be Kidding: 
"Because, it's not possible that to a demonstration against the murder of children and innocent fewer people show up than to one that deals with housing prices or that against the freezing of construction in settlements."
--Israeli author Etgar Keret reveals that few people showed up to Saturday night's demonstrations and the media hid that fact.
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News Nosh 08.04.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday August 4, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"Where is God's house located? In (murdered victim) Shira Banki’s home or (stabber) Yishai Shlissel's home? In Shlissel's Jerusalem, since the time of the Second Temple, there have been zealots walking around full of hatred, who use the name of G-d to put fear in the streets. They are certain that G-d gave them the keys to the city..."
--Rabbi Binyamin (Benny) Lau writes about secular Jews vs. religious Jews and who has ownership over morality. 

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Some Muslim was burned, probably a future terrorist, so there's a big fuss, and our president accuses the entire Jewish nation of the crime. It doesn't make sense. Where is the president when Jews are murdered every other day?"
--"Asheriko from Facebook" tells Ynet in an interview after uploading videos of President Reuven Rivlin in Nazi uniform.
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News Nosh 08.05.15


APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday August 5, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"They want to build a new holy temple and they want to kick out, expel, eliminate, what they call 'idolaters'. And if that, by chance, reminds you of the ideology of ISIS and Hamas, it probably is not far from reality.” 
--Former senior Shin Bet official, Lior Ackerman, compares Jewish extremists to ISIS, after one was put under administrative detention (prison without charges). 

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91.5
--Percentage of investigations into settler attacks on Palestinians that were closed without indictments, despite Israeli authorities claims of being committed to cracking down on nationalistically-motivated crimes.
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News Nosh 08.06.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday August 6, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"In my view, if we all are silent about these things, we are all collaborators.”
--President Reuven Rivlin responds to his detractors for speaking out against Jewish terror.
You Must Be Kidding: 
“Of course I am.”
--Right-wing Lehava organization director, Beni Gopstein, answered the question in a debate about whether he is in favor of burning churches.

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News Nosh 08.07.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday August 7, 2015 
Quote of the day:
 
"Every society has its extreme fringes, but today we need to ask ourselves: What is it about the public atmosphere that gives the zealots the feeling that they can strut safely in the mainstream? What made it so that these weeds are threatening the well-being of the entire field?"
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin looks inward following last week's murders.
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News Nosh 08.09.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday August 9, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
“Which do you prefer burning: a church or a baby?”
103FM Radio talk show hosts ‘Shai and Dror’ ask Beni Gopstein director of racist right-wing organization Lehava in a surprise phone call after Palestinian baby burned to death in arson attack and Gopstein says he believes churches need to be burned.

You Must Be Kidding: 
"I can deliver a message to Ruby Rivlin: you can sleep peacefully at night…Nobody is going to kill him. He is not important enough for someone to kill him."
-- Daniella Weiss, a settler activist and supporter of hilltop youth believed to be behind murder of Palestinian baby and father, 'reassures' Israeli President he doesn't need to worry about threats to his life.
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News Nosh 08.10.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday August 10, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"Will the (Israeli) government now tell Jewish communities around the world how to run the family unit?" 
--A source explains one reason why the Jewish Agency pulled out of Netanyahu's 'Diaspora Initiative.'

You Must Be Kidding: 
“…these (Jewish) guys are organizing, acting, going out, throwing fire bombs, beating Arabs, publishing incitement on internet blogs in ways you wouldn't believe - and that's not considered terror or a security risk in legal terms."
--Former Shin Bet official explains how different sets of Israeli laws for Palestinians and for Israelis let Israelis literally get away with terror.
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News Nosh 08.11.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday August 11, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"I ask you not to turn Barzilai Hospital into an Israeli Guantanamo Bay in which prisoners are allowed to be tortured when other hospitals refuse to do it."
--MK Basel Ghattas (Joint List) wrote in a letter to Barzilai Hospital director, after Israel transferred hunger-striking Palestinian administrative, Mohammed Allan, to hospital, likely in order to force-feed him.

You Must Be Kidding: 
"As your eyes can see, gathered together at the sacred site are the ‘Red Cow’ organization, the ‘Builders of the Temple’ organization, the ‘Pulsa de Nora Rabbis,’ the ‘Hilltop Youth,’…’The Beast Destroyers,’ the ‘Altar Slaughterers,’ the ‘Tree Cutters,’ the ‘Mosque Burners,’ the ‘Church Arsonists’ and other various comrade activists and representatives of the secret gangs that operate within the enemy organizations of our people, who wear masks out of fear that they will be identified by rats of the Shin Bet who planted them within our forces, but we know who they are and we will expose them at the time and place that we determine….”
--Commentator Natan Zehavi shares his prophecy of how the 25th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Meir Kahane will look.

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News Nosh 08.12.15

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday August 12, 2015 
Quote of the day:
"A temporary directive was issued to underscore the ways in which troops on the ground must handle situations that do not constitute an imminent threat to their lives."
--An IDF statement on the important change (or clarification) to the rules for opening fire on Palestinians: no more shooting at people who are running away.
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