News Nosh 3.01.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday March 1, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"Hamas doesn't plan to destroy Israel through tunnels, it's looking to wear it down. In the psychological war, in the tunnels category, Hamas 1: Israel 0.”
--Maariv’s military correspondent, Noam Amir, writes that Israel has its spending priorities all wrong due to Israelis' psychological fears.*
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News Nosh 3.02.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday March 2, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"You want to win, but it's friendly too."
--Karem Joubran, a 27-year-old Palestinian from Shuafat refugee camp, in E. Jerusalem, who crossed IDF military checkpoints to participate in a very special Jewish-Arab backgammon event held in west Jerusalem.*
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News Nosh 3.03.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday, March 3, 2017
 
Quote of the Day #1:
“…Once we used the Jewish National Fund to raise money to buy the lands. Today? We just pass a law saying we can just take their lands and that’s it. Soldiers shoot at stone-throwers because they’re a real threat, but if in Israel someone throws stones they won’t even be charged…for years we’ve been deepening the hatred,  the same hatred that we later complain about in peace talks, ‘Why do you incite your children against us? Why don’t you teach them to love us?’ Israel’s most impressive innovation, more than any hi-tech project, or Rafael weapon, is our amazing ability to ignore what is happening mere kilometers away to our neighbors. A whole people, transparent. Like it doesn’t exist. Not in the news. Not online. Not in social media. And definitely not in the hearts of the people. Nothing. We’ve got a great country and great restaurants and it’s fun to travel abroad. Just don’t tell us what’s really happening. We’re good. Don’t bum us out…"
-- In his last show, Israeli political comedy show host, Asaf Harel, made a searing indictment of Israeli society that has gone viral on social media.
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News Nosh 3.05.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday March 5, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"I am going to say something that sounds harsh: there are between 15% and 20% [who oppose two-states] on the Israeli side and the Palestinian side. On their side it is mainly Hamas and on the Israeli side it is the fundamentalist ideologues who prefer the Land of Israel over the Zionism of a Jewish and democratic State of Israel."
--In an expansive interview in Maariv, former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon says Israeli society is led by extremists who support a one-state solution.*
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News Nosh 3.06.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday, March 6, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding:
"I was very hurt; they asked me if I had ties to ISIS. I am a married man and I want to live and support my family with dignity."
--Majdi Othman of Abu Ghosh town was shocked to learn that the Shin Bet denied him permission for a technical job in an external company working at Ben-Gurion Airport. The Shin Bet said his "security status was found unsuitable.” Othman, an Arab-Israeli, served in the IDF as a combat medic and driver and fought in the Second Lebanon War.**
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News Nosh 3.07.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday March 7, 2017
 
Quote of the Day #1:
"We must remember that there is no physical shield available which can totally defend citizens against a determined enemy. To all types of physical defense we must add an investment in the area of social strength development, so that Israel’s citizens will know how to recover and return to full systemic functioning after sustaining possible damage."
--Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Meir Elran argues that the 'tunnel threat' is neither 'existential' or 'strategic' and is one that Israel can live with.*
 
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News Nosh 3.08.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday March 8, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“The debate exists by definition within the Israeli public, with all of its elements. We know these debates, and within these debates we need to build. Not to fan [the flames] but to come and find common ground."
--At an education conference, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin accused Israel's government leaders of incitement between the different sectors of Israeli society - Jewish-Arab, Ashkenazi-Mizrachi, religious-secular - in order to gain political power. Rivlin spoke about the need for unity amongst the various sectors of Israeli society. He encouraged Jews and Arabs, religious and secular to meet and discover each other and find a common ground.*
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News Nosh 3.09.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday March 9, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"The muezzin was part of this public sphere long before the racists got here and will remain here long after they are gone. It is part of the audible tapestry of our one-and-only homeland, and it will stay that way."
--Joint List Leader Ayman Odeh said before he was removed from the raucous Knesset debate over the bill to silence the Muslim call to prayer loudspeakers. *
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News Nosh 3.10.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday March 10, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“I can’t unsee what I’ve seen or ignore what I know. The violation of another people by the Jewish State in the name of the Jewish people has pricked my conscience and inspired my activism over these last four decades.”
--Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founder of Ms. Magazine and a past Chair of Americans for Peace Now, writes that she expects that under the new Israeli entry ban, she’ll end up on the government’s blacklist - but she won’t give up on Israel.
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News Nosh 3.13.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday March 13, 2017
 
Quote of the day #1:
“It is all so counter to what I know of Jewish culture. Questioning authority makes you a kapo? To question authority makes you a traitor? If you question bad policies you are a self-hating Jew? That is insane. And, of course it’s the last resort of tyrants.”
--In an interview during his visit to Israel, actor Richard Gere slams the demonization of left-wing pro-peace organizations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Trump administration’s new ambassador to Israel, David Friedman.*
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