APN's daily news review from Israel
Note:
News Nosh will from now on refer to what is commonly called ‘ISIS’ or the ‘Islamic State’ as ‘Daesh.’ Here's why. However, if a newspaper specifically used ISIS, that usage will not be changed.
Quote of the day:
“Just before the right in Israel begins to celebrate, we must tell them: There is no connection
whatsoever between the child with a knife from Hebron and the French Muslim with a suicide bomb in Paris. Just
before the right in France and all of Europe starts to celebrate, we must tell them: Don’t you dance on the
blood as well. The nationalism, hatred of foreigners, racism, deportation of refugees, isolationism and the war
against Islam — your magic solutions will not solve anything.”
--Haaretz+ commentator Gideon Levy warns that if Israel continues with its policies, the child stabber from Hebron will turn into the adult suicide bomber of ISIS.
--Haaretz+ commentator Gideon Levy warns that if Israel continues with its policies, the child stabber from Hebron will turn into the adult suicide bomber of ISIS.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday November 16, 2015
Quote of the day:
"The next time Palestinians hide weapons in a civilian ambulance, the next time a stabber disguises
himself as a journalist, the next time Palestinians shoot rockets from near a United Nations building, remember
that officers from Israel’s Yamam (Special Police Unit) disguised themselves as a woman in labor on a
wheelchair entering a hospital in Hebron in order to arrest a wounded suspect and kill his
relative."
--Haggai Matar examines the Israeli media coverage of an illegal Israeli operation.
--Haggai Matar examines the Israeli media coverage of an illegal Israeli operation.
You Must Be Kidding:
"A taxi driver passing by saw the crucifix in my car and started shouting: 'He's an Arab terrorist.' They then started beating me with everything they had: sticks, chains and knives. I shouted at them that I'm a police security guard but it didn't help."
--Christian Arab Israeli security guard hospitalized after attack by Jewish Israelis who suspected he was a terrorist simply because he was Arab.
This week, Alpher discusses what strategic significance the Paris Massacre might be to the Islamic State; whether it is a sign that ISIS is losing in the Levant; what other countries can we expect ISIS to target now; whether the constellation emerging after the Paris attacks affect Israel’s security; why the former Yemeni prime minister Abdul Karim al-Eryani, who died at age 81 in his Cairo exile, was significant, and what this tells us about the future of Yemen.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday November 17, 2015
Quote of the day:
"I'm sick to death of the justifications: Our terrorist as freedom fighter (Choose one: Yasser Arafat
or Yitzhak Shamir). Our terrorist as a natural and legitimate response to oppression, injustice, hopelessness,
evil, history."
--Bradley Burston writes in Haaretz that the 'The enemy of my enemy is love.'
--Bradley Burston writes in Haaretz that the 'The enemy of my enemy is love.'
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday November 18, 2015
Quote of the day:
"It should have insisted on something like "Product of a bunch of lunatic paranoids that see
anti-Semitism and Israel’s imminent destruction lurking in every corner."
-- David Rosenberg writes that the European Union was kind to Israel in labeling settlement products, noting that it didn’t take decades for the EU to slap sanctions on Russia and there weren’t labels reading 'Made in Crimea (Russian occupation').
-- David Rosenberg writes that the European Union was kind to Israel in labeling settlement products, noting that it didn’t take decades for the EU to slap sanctions on Russia and there weren’t labels reading 'Made in Crimea (Russian occupation').
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday November 19, 2015
Quote of the day:
“I’ve been shocked to hear claims of anti-Semitism and historical comparisons or analogies to the
persecution of Jews in Germany in the ’30s and ’40s...In my mind this is a distortion of history and
belittlement of the crimes of the Nazis, and the memory of their victims.”
--European Union Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen said in response to remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
--European Union Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen said in response to remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
You Must Be Kidding:
45 days community service.
--The sentence Magistrate’s Court Judge Dana Cohen-Lekach gave to a Border Policeman who was caught on film severely beating an American-Palestinian. The state had requested a seven-month jail term.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday November 20, 2015
Quote of the day:
"The dream of every spy recruiter could be the nightmare of intelligence chiefs and their
government."
--Amir Oren writes in Haaretz+ how AIPAC rejected 'walk-in' spy, Jonathan Pollard, but Israeli officials couldn't resist the tempting opportunity he offered and harmed vital interests: relations with the US.
--Amir Oren writes in Haaretz+ how AIPAC rejected 'walk-in' spy, Jonathan Pollard, but Israeli officials couldn't resist the tempting opportunity he offered and harmed vital interests: relations with the US.
By Yariv Oppenheimer is the secretary-general of Peace Now. This article appeared first on November 20, 2015 in Ynet.com T
he Paris attacks cannot justify for a minute our ongoing control of the Palestinians and do not make the vision of a bi-national state any better for Israel.
If the Islamic State members could, they wouldn't hesitate to hurt Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas too and behead him. As far as the radical Islam created by ISIS is concerned, the Palestinians and their leadership are heretics too.
Former APN intern Hamze Awawde and Sarah Perle Benazera are a Palestinian and an Israeli who go to Rwanda to learn first hand about the extraordinary path the Rwandan youth has taken on the road to unity and reconciliation following the 1994 genocide. A Production by The Aileen Getty School of Citizen Journalism YaLa Young Leaders