News Nosh 04.27.16

by APN 04/27/16
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday April 27, 2016


Note: During the Passover Holiday, News Nosh will be published in a truncated version through Thursday, April 28th.

 
Quote of the day:
"The Oslo peace process and the subsequent failed Camp David negotiations both contributed to putting the Temple Mount/Haram Al Sharif at the heart of Israeli-Palestinian confrontations, by raising fears among Israel's national religious Jews and among Palestinian Muslims that the process would deny their respective claims to the site."
-- Daniel Seidemann, from APN's new publication: Tough Questions, Expert Answers: The Temple Mount.
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News Nosh 04.28.16

by APN 04/28/16
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday April 28, 2016


Note: During the Passover Holiday, News Nosh will be off  Friday April 29th. It will resume regular publication on Sunday, May 1st.
 
Quote of the day:
"We hope that when they go back to Gaza they will talk about the positive sides of Israeli society. There are no politics in a hospital, only people. Just yesterday we treated a girl from Ramallah. Everyone here is equal."
-- Dr. Joshua Schroeder, senior orthopedic surgeon at Hadassah Hospital after successfully completing a rare procedure that prevented a 3-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip from becoming paralyzed.
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Interview with Freedom House's Vanessa Tucker on the state of Israel's Freedom of the Press

by APN 04/28/16
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VanessaTuckerPhoto320x265The pro-Netanyahu newspaper Israel Hayom, a political daily distributed free of charge and funded by American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, is the main reason for Israel’s dropping to the unflattering “partly free” category in Freedom House’s 2016 Global Freedom of the Press report. Vanessa Tucker, Freedom House’s vice president for analysis, explains in the following interview why her organization is concerned about the impact of the Adelson-funded daily on Israel’s public arena.

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The Quiet Death of the Two-State Solution

by admin_as_editor 04/21/16
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Yossi Meckelberg / Chatham House (April 21, 2016)
A complete lack of trust, the absence of true statesmanship and the building of settlements have rendered a viable Palestinian state impossible. Read More >

US Presidents, the UN Security Council, & Resolutions Critical of Israel: This Historical Record, 1967 - Present

by admin_as_editor 04/01/16
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Americans for Peace Now / (April 1, 2016)
Comprehensive chart showing Israel-related UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) dating back to the 1967 War, broken down according to President.  Read More >

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