News Nosh 3.23.18

by APN 03/23/18
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, March 23, 2018

You Must Be Kidding: 
Thousands of Palestinians unable to work in Israel due to strike by Israeli employees of Israel’s Civil Administration. The sanctions have reportedly so far harmed some 4,000 Palestinians, and each additional day of sanctions will harm another 1,000 Palestinians. (Haaretz+)
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News Nosh 3.22.18

by APN 03/22/18
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday, March 22, 2018
 
Quote of the day:
"I started to teach American Jews what it means to love Israel. That you can be critical of the place you live in, out of love."
—Former Channel 10 News Palestinian affairs correspondent, Shlomi Eldar, in an interview with Haaretz after the release of his new film, 'Foreign Land.'*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Israel sentenced 17-year-old Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, to eight months in prison for slapping an Israeli soldier who was on her property, and sentenced an unnamed 20-year-old Jewish man to 400 hours of community service for attacking with stones and injuring a 45-year-old Palestinian farmer who was on his way home from work on a donkey.**
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Friedman Watch

by APN 03/21/18
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President Trump's controversial US Ambassador to Israel has demonstrated that APN was right to oppose his confirmation - and then some. To see why Friedman must go, check out our resources on Ambassador Friedman. These include Friedman Watch, our ongoing APN feature documenting the damage the settlements enthusiast-cum-ambassador is doing in his post.

Join our call and send your own message to the White House asking Trump to tell Friedman what he loves telling others: “You’re fired!”

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Peace Now in the News: March 6 - March 21, 2018

by APN 03/21/18
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Jerusalem Post: March 21, 2018
"Since Trump took office, new settlement construction has declined," Peace Now's Hagit Ofran comments on stats showing a decline in West Bank settlement housing starts since Trump's presidency.

Haaretz: March 8, 2018
"Israeli government-funded council spent millions on illegal settlements," Peace Now accuses settlement regional council of breaking the law using tax-payer funds to pay for illegal construction.

Jerusalem Post: March 6, 2018
"Work starts on new industrial zone Kiryat Arba settlement," Peace Now opposes construction of industrial zone in Kiryat Arba.

 

News Nosh 3.21.18

by APN 03/21/18
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
 
Quote of the day:
"Leaders can deceive, steal, destroy countries and abuse citizens, but only on the condition that their most horrendous acts are carried out politely, in clean language, when they are dressed in suits and ties, and delicately holding the stem of a tall glass of wine with a napkin under it. Abbas can’t be a member of that club, which is reserved only for real leaders who rule real countries. Again and again he tries to muscle his way in, and each time the bouncers kick him out."
--Haaretz journalist Zvi Bar'el accuses world leaders of being hypocrites.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Thirty-four seconds. That’s how much time passed between the start of the stabbing attack in which Adiel Coleman was murdered Sunday and the moment the police arrived and killed the assailant, Abed al-Rahman Bani Fadel."
--Haaretz+'s Jerusalem Affairs reporter, Nir Hasson, writes that the police detention of 8 Palestinian passersby and shopkeepers for not stopping or intervening in the murder of Coleman, which would put them at risk for being mistaken for the terrorist, is a cruel demand and a a test case for raising the legal threshold for preventing a crime.**
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News Nosh 3.20.18

by APN 03/20/18
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
 
Quote of the day:
"I am conservative and a Republican, and I have supported the Likud party since the 1980s. But the reality is that 13 million people live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. And almost half of them are Palestinian."
--President of the World Jewish Congress, Ron Lauder, wrote in an Op-Ed in the New York Times, quoted in the Hebrew newspapers, that the only path forward for Israel is the two-state solution.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
“We don’t say a blessing for every negro … He needs to be a negro whose father and mother are white … if you know, they had a monkey for a son..."
--Israel's Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef calls black people ‘monkeys.**
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Hard Questions, Tough Answers (3.19.18) - What does Trump mean?

by APN 03/19/18
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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 President Trump's statement: “we’ve taken Jerusalem off the table”; what the prospective May summit between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un means in Middle East terms; how replacing Tillerson with Mike Pompeo and appointing Gina Haspel to take over the CIA affects the Middle East; Trump's response to Russia's use of a nerve agent in the poisoning of British spies; and where Netanyahu is on these Trump acts and statements.

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News Nosh 3.19.18

by APN 03/19/18
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday March 19, 2018
 
Quote of the day:
"Can I help?"
--A Palestinian man, who arrived at the scene of an attack moments after another Palestinian drove into Israeli soldiers killing two, was filmed offering to help the soldier who was kneeling over his wounded comrade-in-arms.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
"The High Court reduces the IDF's deterrence powers and it needs to know its place."
--MK Moti Regev (Habayit Hayehudi) said Israel's High Court of Justice was to blame for the deaths of Israeli soldiers and civilians by not immediately permitting the demolition of the homes of Palestinian assailants.**
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APN Security Validators

by APN 03/18/18
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Legislative Round-Up: March 16, 2018

by APN 03/16/18
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Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived

  1. Bills & Resolutions
  2. Hearings & Markups
  3. On the Record
  4. Which Members of Congress Spoke at AIPAC?
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