APN Statement Celebrating One-Year Anniversary of
the JCPOA (7/15/16)
Recommended reading: The
Obama Administration on the 1-year anniversary of the JCPOA
Recommended Reading on the JCPOA 1-year Anniversary - Analyses/News/Commentary
APN archived/historic resources: Diplomacy Produces Good Iran Deal
Haaretz - June 26
Haaretz Daily Cartoon features Peace Now
News 24 (AFP Story) - July 4
Peace Now
quoted in comment on settlement construction strengthening extremists
Daily Mail - July 6
Peace
Now quoted for a fact on settlement expansion: Israeli government initiates construction of 42 new homes in West
Bank settlement
New York Jewish Week - July 14
Board Member Martin Bresler's op-ed, "Why I Do Call Israel Out On The Occupation" is published as a response to David Bernstein's "Why I Don't Call Israel Out On The Occupation."
Media Coverage of Peace Now's Response to NGO Law
Al Jazeera - July 12
Israel
passes controversial NGO bill amid criticism
Washington Post - July 12
Israel NGOs decry 'deeply anti-democratic' move as new law approved
Reuters (featured in Daily Mail and Voice of America) - July 12
EU says Israel's new NGO law risks 'undermining values'
http://www.voanews.com/content/eu-says-israels-new-ngo-law-risks-undermining-values/3414830.html
The Guardian - July 12
Israel
passes law to force NGOs to reveal foreign funding
BBC - July 12
EU criticises Israel law forcing NGOs to reveal
foreign funding
The Times of Israel - July 12
EU: NGO law risks
undermining Israel's democratic values
The Times of Israel - July 12
Left-wing groups slam
'anti-democratic' NGO law
Al Arabiya - July 12
>Israel
approves NGO foreign funding law
The Forward - July 12
Israel Passes
Controversial Anti-NGO Law
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - July 12
Knesset passes controversial 'transparency' law on NGO funding
i24 News - July 12
EU Slams Israel's controversial NGO law
France 24 - July 12
Israël
adopte une loi controversée sur le financement étranger des ONG
The Associated Press (featured in Washington Post and New York Times) - July 11
Israel passes law targeting human rights organizations
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/11/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-ngo-law.html
Reuters (also featured in Ynet News and the Jerusalem Post) - July 11
Israel NGO bill, seen as targeting left-wing groups, becomes law
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-ngo-idUSKCN0ZR2JB
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 17, 2016
You Must Be Kidding:
"Shapira should die in battle… A negligent commander who wipes the blood of his soldier for a promotion."
--One of many of the invectives posted on Facebook against Brigade Commander Lt. Col. David Shapira, who testified against Elor Azariya, the soldier who executed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"Shapira should die in battle… A negligent commander who wipes the blood of his soldier for a promotion."
--One of many of the invectives posted on Facebook against Brigade Commander Lt. Col. David Shapira, who testified against Elor Azariya, the soldier who executed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant.*
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday July 18, 2016
You Must Be
Kidding:
“It’s called ‘not harming innocents,' that’s what they call it (...and it) is spreading like wildfire.”
--Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, a leading settler rabbi and head of an IDF pre-conscription academy at Eli settlement, denounced the army's efforts to avoid harming Palestinian civilian noncombatants.**
“It’s called ‘not harming innocents,' that’s what they call it (...and it) is spreading like wildfire.”
--Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, a leading settler rabbi and head of an IDF pre-conscription academy at Eli settlement, denounced the army's efforts to avoid harming Palestinian civilian noncombatants.**
Breaking News:
Two Israelis Soldier Hurt in West Bank Stabbing, Assailant Shot
According to paramedics, both soldiers are conscious after being stabbed in Al-Arroub near Jerusalem. Assailant severely injured and Israeli forces reportedly prevented Palestinian Red Crescent medics from treating him. (Haaretz, Ynet, Israel Hayom and Maan)
Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
This week, Alpher discusses what’s wrong with the Knesset bill passed July 11th, that stigmatizes human rights NGOs (non-governmental organizations, or non-profits) in Israel by obliging them to constantly and blatantly publicize funding they receive from foreign governments; truck attack in Nice on Bastille Day, July 14; and what was relevant about the failed military coup in Turkey.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday July 19, 2016
Quote of the day #1:
"Against these two groups we must battle. Otherwise, we will become, sooner or later, a democracy -
Turkish style."
--Yedioth's top political commentator, Nahum Barnea, writes that two groups are challenging Israel's democracy: the government and radical religious Zionism.*
--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp leader MK Isaac Herzog said he fears a civil war.**
--Yedioth's top political commentator, Nahum Barnea, writes that two groups are challenging Israel's democracy: the government and radical religious Zionism.*
Quote of the day #2:
“Israel is witnessing a deep, racist and dark intifada of hatred.”--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp leader MK Isaac Herzog said he fears a civil war.**
Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW serves as Rabbinic Director of the Jewish Board of Family and
Children’s Services in New York City, working with individuals who are ill, bereaved, or survivors of
trauma, through Jewish spiritual counseling, support groups, workshops and printed materials. He has been
deeply involved in human rights advocacy, Jewish-Muslim relations, interfaith exchanges, and the nexus of
spiritual resources and mental health for over thirty years.
This week’s Torah portion is named for a man –Pinhas- who represents both heroism and horror in our tradition. It is, to say the least, complicated in terms of role models for leadership. In contrast, Moshe, recognized as the greatest of the Jewish people’s leaders, and who in this week’s portion is engaged in the search for his impending replacement, ‘advises’ the Almighty regarding his successor and in so doing, offers a prescription for a good leader.
And Moshe spoke to God, saying, Let the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them, and who may go in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of God be not as sheep that have no shepherd. (Numbers 27:15-17)
Moshe’s counsel as set out in these three verses and elucidated by a number of Torah commentaries, points to the leadership challenges the state of Israel faces at present, with a current leadership that has failed to take the actions that would result in the much desired goal of security and peace for Israel, and for the Palestinians as well.
APN Weekly Update - Bresler calls out the occupation, Alpher calls out the new NGO law, Iran deal a year later, and more
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"...the law's purpose is to encourage popular hostility against
Israeli advocates of human and minority rights. "
APN will be honored this Thursday for its key role and
partnership in the NSL program that trains young emerging leaders from Palestine
and Israel. APN has hosted interns and programs for the past eight years.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday July 20, 2016
Quotes of the day:
"Through dirty tricks, the coalition unanimously passed one of the basest laws in its history. This is one
of the most embarrassing moments of the humiliation of the Knesset. This law is designed to remove the Arab MKs
from the Knesset. I am ashamed for the Knesset."
--Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On said at stormy Knesset session in which the impeachment bill was approved.**
"Democracy is not a stable building. There are shocks and you (the opposition) pulled out a brick. This time, it’s against the Arabs, the second time it will be against women, and the next time you will harm some other group, until in the end they get to you. And there will be no one to protect you. When you...allow the Israeli parliament to oust its own members, that is where the trouble starts.”
--MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Camp) said at the same stormy Knesset session.**
--Meretz MK Zehava Gal-On said at stormy Knesset session in which the impeachment bill was approved.**
"Democracy is not a stable building. There are shocks and you (the opposition) pulled out a brick. This time, it’s against the Arabs, the second time it will be against women, and the next time you will harm some other group, until in the end they get to you. And there will be no one to protect you. When you...allow the Israeli parliament to oust its own members, that is where the trouble starts.”
--MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Camp) said at the same stormy Knesset session.**