APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday February 5, 2017
Quote of the day:
"We are citizens of Israel and we want to be treated with respect. I want to be like everyone else. I
want the same respect they gave to residents of Amona. We demand to know the truth behind the
incident.”
--Amal Abu Saad, the wife of Yaqoub al-Qiyan, the Bedouin math teacher whom police shot while he drove his car,
after which he hit a group of police officers, killing one. Police say he intended to kill the policeman.
Al-Qiyan's family and evidence show otherwise.*
You Must Be
Kidding:
“This is not an accidental development but an intentional policy, meant to create a simplistic and
one-sided worldview for the students. In this view there is only one player – the Jewish people – while the
Palestinians remain behind the curtain and emerge only when they interfere with the efforts for Jewish
settlement."
--Prof. Avner Ben-Amos of Tel Aviv University, whose research shows that the graduating examinations in civics
from 2000 to 2015 didn’t include a single question touching on the political-ideological divide in which
teachers are supposed to relate to the occupation.*