News Nosh 05.29.16

by APN 05/29/16
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday May 29, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“Instead of condemning and arguing, maybe you should start fixing, because there is some truth in (what I have said)."
--Patriotic veteran Channel 2 News military affairs reporter, Roni Daniel, responds to the backlash for his comments last week that he sees no future for his children in Israel.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
 "Our country allowed me, a Christian Arab from Nazareth, to end the war between my soul and my body. So if it made peace for me, our country is only a country of peace." 
-- Ta'alin Abu Hanna, an Israeli Arab from Nazareth won the country's first transgender beauty pageant on Friday, beating out a contestant from an Orthodox Jerusalem family and a Muslim belly-dancer from Tel Aviv.
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News Nosh 05.30.16

by APN 05/30/16
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday May 30, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"A world in which it is not the state that has a leader, but rather a leader who has a state. A feeling that every morning, we need to thank G-d that we have a prime minister of such stature like Netanyahu, who agreed to lead a state that is small for him by a few sizes, instead of being, for example, the President of the United States. That is what the wife of the Prime Minister thinks..."
--Senior Yedioth political affairs commentator, Sima Kadmon, writes a scathing piece about the Netanyahu family in the wake of the police recommendation to indict Sarah Netanyahu.*
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Broken Trust: State Involvement in Private Settlement in Batan Al-Hawa, Silwan

by admin_as_editor 05/01/16
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Ir Amim and Peace Now (May 2016)
Thorough analysis of Israeli settlement activity in Batan Al-Hawa, a Palestinian neighborhood in the heart of East Jerusalem's Silwan that is being turned into another Jewish settlement. The report shows that Jewish settlement in Betan Al-Hawa advances the Israeli government's efforts to place Jerusalem's Old City under Israeli Jewish control, effectively evicting hundreds of Palestinian residents from their homes. Read More >

Qalandiya Crossing on a Tuesday Morning

by admin_as_editor 05/04/16
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Luke Tress and Dov Lieber / Times of Israel (May 4, 2016)
Palestinian workers passing through the Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah on a typical Tuesday morning. (3:43) Watch >

Advancing the Dialogue: A Security System for the Two-State Solution

by admin_as_editor 05/01/16
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Ilan Goldberg, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Gadi Shamni, Nimrod Novik, and Col. Kris Baumen / Center for a New American Security (May 2016)
This report proposes a security system to address both Israeli security concerns and Palestinian concerns of continuous occupation. PDF >

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