APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday December 2, 2015
Quote of the day:
“An act of this kind, in addition to being non-normative and in contradiction of IDF values, is liable
to lead to a weakening of the moral strength of the IDF and even of the State of Israel.”
--IDF court writes in ruling on trial of soldier who beat a detained Palestinian on the back of his neck and yelled, 'Death to Arabs.' The IDF has seen a rise of violence by soldiers against Palestinians.
--IDF court writes in ruling on trial of soldier who beat a detained Palestinian on the back of his neck and yelled, 'Death to Arabs.' The IDF has seen a rise of violence by soldiers against Palestinians.
You Must Be Kidding:
Asked why he asked for a tattoo of the Islamic State flag and why he has an al-Qaida flag tattoo, the Israeli man said he saw the terrorist groups' flags on the news and "thought they would make pretty tattoos."
Front Page:
Haaretz
- (Outgoing temporary police commissioner) Bentsi Sau to Haaretz: I’m very optimistic about solving the (arson) murder in Duma
- Solving the murders using intelligence does not necessarily assure conviction // Amos Harel
- Three years prison for the arsonist of the Bi-Lingual (Jewish-Arab) school in Jerusalem
- Rabbinate: Require mothers with high incomes to pay child support
- In contradiction to the Health Ministry’s position, mining dangerous phosphates near Arad was approved
- Record capacity of 2,500 people at Holot (detention facility), the facility will be completely filled within weeks
- State Attorney does not update 92% of the victims of crime on the plea bargain signed with the criminal
- Tells on someone to the teacher // Haaretz Editorial
- Neighbors like us // Amir Fuchs
- Without secrets and without a G-d // Yair Ashkenazi
- Gas leak // Avi Bar-Eli
Yedioth Ahronoth
- “We hope the murderers of the family were caught” – Relatives of the Palestinian family that were burned to death in their home in Duma village say, “We hope the development in the investigation of Jewish terror is connected to us”
- Because of the order: The whole country is rumors // Yossi Yehoshua
- Severe findings against a well-known MK – Today: State Comptroller’s report
- Spreading wings following his sister – Brother finishes pilot’s course a year after his sister, also pilot, died in an avalanche in Nepal
- New and horrific discoveries about the massacre in Munich
- Will the decision that women will also pay child support correct discrimination or worsen the difficulties of women?
- European championships in swimming begin today at Wingate sports center
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- “The arrests (of right-wing Jews) will calm the wave of knifings”
- Yitzhak Gabai, among the arsonists of the Bi-Lingual (Jewish-Arab) school in Jerusalem, was sentenced to three years prison
- In his father’s footsteps: One of the suspects of Jewish terror is the grandson of a member of the Jewish (terrorist) underground of the ‘80’s
- State Comptroller will reveal today: Suspicion of criminal acts in the primaries for the Knesset
- Report: Flaws in the conduct of the State Prosecution in the implementation of the law for the rights of victims of crimes
- Polygraph war – After police commander of Lahav 433 Unit presented a test that supported his version – the complainant (of sexual harassment) was found telling the truth in a test that the police made
- The horror of the Munich massacre – NYT revealed: “They were tortured before their deaths”
Israel Hayom
- Munich torture – 43 years after the massacre, testimonies reveal: The athletes were tortured before they were murdered
- Years before Daesh and Al-Qaeda: Already then, Palestinian terror had no mercy // Boaz Bismuth
- Polygraph: The complainant against (police commander) Ritman told the truth
- Storm over the racist video: We will consider canceling the real estate company’s tender
- Dramatic decision in Rabbinate: Women with high financial capacity will pay child support
- Tension in political establishment: Today – Severe State Comptroller report on the funding of the primaries in various parties
- Bank of Israel Governor: “The gas agreement – the best among the existing options”
News Summary:
Jewish and Palestinian attacks on each other and new horrific details about the Palestinian attack on Israeli athletes at the ’72 Munich Olympics were top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers. Other news of interest came out of two conferences that took place yesterday.
While the security establishment said there was ‘another significant development’ into the investigation into what Yedioth called ‘one of the most severe incidents of Jewish terror in the history of the state,’ few details were released due to the gag-order. Yedioth reported that the assessment is that “the path is long until indictments are submitted and the gag-order is lifted on reporting on the affair” because the biggest problem the Shin Bet investigators face is the stubborn silence of the radical right-wing activists in their interrogations. Ynet posted a video of an extremist right-wing religious Jewish youth who had been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to buildings in Arab villages. He said, “We are battling against a foreign regime on the land.” A friend of his was quoted as saying that his arrested friend "represents a very large public of Jews who do not recognize the authority of the laws that aren’t laws of the holy Torah.” (Ynet Hebrew) Outgoing Israel Police chief Bentsi Sau told Haaretz+ he was confident the arson murders of the Dawabsheh family will be solved and noted that Jewish vandalism of Palestinian property had dropped 72% in the past three years and that the Temple Mount is in its quietest period in recent years. Sources told the papers that the high number of administration detentions against radical right-wing Jews and restraining orders prohibiting entrance into the West Bank have prevented additional deadly attacks by them against Palestinians. The grandparents of the five-year-old Ahmed Dawabsheh, the lone survivor in the arson in Duma village, said they hoped the ‘significant progress’ the Shin Bet was talking about referred to their family’s case. Meanwhile, the third arsonist of the Jerusalem bilingual (Jewish-Arab) school was sentenced to three years in jail.
Three more security incidents in the West Bank involving Palestinians believed to be intending to stab Israelis were thwarted, with two 16-year-old Palestinians shot dead. Israeli forces flooded neighborhoods in the Hebron district arresting 28 Palestinians, including four teens between the ages of 14 and 16, in its ongoing arrest campaign, Maan reported. Three youth in Hebron were shot and injured Tuesday evening, one in serious condition.
Also in the news, the PLO accused Israel of political ‘blackmail’ for suspending contact with the European Union over labeling settlement products and Maariv asked whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was burning relations, after the Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders canceled his planned visit to Israel, after he learned that Netanyahu refused to meet with him because of labeling issue. Netanyahu's office insisted the meeting wasn’t canceled, “It hasn’t even been made due to schedule problems."
Meanwhile, at the Galilee Conference in Acre, Netanyahu confirmed that Israel operates in Syria 'from time to time.' And according to a Lebanese report, an Israeli spying device exploded in southern Lebanon. Also of interest, Netanyahu said that most world leaders acknowledge that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a territorial dispute. "We have a disagreement on the Palestinian issue with some of the countries, especially a number of countries in Western Europe …. They think the rift with the Palestinians is a territorial dispute, but it’s not,” Netanyahu said. “It’s about our very existence. But most of the leaders, in Europe as well, understand this.”
Opposition leader, Zionist Camp chairman, MK Isaac Herzog, sparked a storm at the conference when he slammed the additional budgets for isolated settlements over the support of communities inside the Green Line. “We can not continue to lie. As long as a child in an isolated settlement outside of the blocs in the Judea and Samaria receives more than a child from the Galilee the national priorities are twisted.” He continued: "The lobby of the isolated settlements and Judea and Samaria in Likud and Habayit Hayehudi is holding the government and the man who heads it in the most sensitive places, sitting inside the Prime Minister’s Office and sucking the budgets meant for the Galilee and the Negev. Netanyahu doesn’t move a millimeter on the peace process and won’t change anything in Israeli economy and in national priorities for the good of the Negev and the Galilee." He made clear he would not join a unity government: "I have no reason to be there." (Ynet Hebrew)
And at a conference at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel-Aviv University, former US and Israeli officials sparred over the issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Iran. Former US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, said that progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace could have led to different results for the Iran nuclear deal. Netanyahu’s former national security adviser, Uzi Arad said: "There was never a American plan to attack Iran" and that George Bush rejected the idea in 2007. Arad also said, "The fact that Israel stayed away from the discussions on the agreement, denied it the ability to influence it." (Maariv)
Jewish and Palestinian attacks on each other and new horrific details about the Palestinian attack on Israeli athletes at the ’72 Munich Olympics were top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers. Other news of interest came out of two conferences that took place yesterday.
While the security establishment said there was ‘another significant development’ into the investigation into what Yedioth called ‘one of the most severe incidents of Jewish terror in the history of the state,’ few details were released due to the gag-order. Yedioth reported that the assessment is that “the path is long until indictments are submitted and the gag-order is lifted on reporting on the affair” because the biggest problem the Shin Bet investigators face is the stubborn silence of the radical right-wing activists in their interrogations. Ynet posted a video of an extremist right-wing religious Jewish youth who had been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to buildings in Arab villages. He said, “We are battling against a foreign regime on the land.” A friend of his was quoted as saying that his arrested friend "represents a very large public of Jews who do not recognize the authority of the laws that aren’t laws of the holy Torah.” (Ynet Hebrew) Outgoing Israel Police chief Bentsi Sau told Haaretz+ he was confident the arson murders of the Dawabsheh family will be solved and noted that Jewish vandalism of Palestinian property had dropped 72% in the past three years and that the Temple Mount is in its quietest period in recent years. Sources told the papers that the high number of administration detentions against radical right-wing Jews and restraining orders prohibiting entrance into the West Bank have prevented additional deadly attacks by them against Palestinians. The grandparents of the five-year-old Ahmed Dawabsheh, the lone survivor in the arson in Duma village, said they hoped the ‘significant progress’ the Shin Bet was talking about referred to their family’s case. Meanwhile, the third arsonist of the Jerusalem bilingual (Jewish-Arab) school was sentenced to three years in jail.
Three more security incidents in the West Bank involving Palestinians believed to be intending to stab Israelis were thwarted, with two 16-year-old Palestinians shot dead. Israeli forces flooded neighborhoods in the Hebron district arresting 28 Palestinians, including four teens between the ages of 14 and 16, in its ongoing arrest campaign, Maan reported. Three youth in Hebron were shot and injured Tuesday evening, one in serious condition.
Also in the news, the PLO accused Israel of political ‘blackmail’ for suspending contact with the European Union over labeling settlement products and Maariv asked whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was burning relations, after the Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders canceled his planned visit to Israel, after he learned that Netanyahu refused to meet with him because of labeling issue. Netanyahu's office insisted the meeting wasn’t canceled, “It hasn’t even been made due to schedule problems."
Meanwhile, at the Galilee Conference in Acre, Netanyahu confirmed that Israel operates in Syria 'from time to time.' And according to a Lebanese report, an Israeli spying device exploded in southern Lebanon. Also of interest, Netanyahu said that most world leaders acknowledge that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a territorial dispute. "We have a disagreement on the Palestinian issue with some of the countries, especially a number of countries in Western Europe …. They think the rift with the Palestinians is a territorial dispute, but it’s not,” Netanyahu said. “It’s about our very existence. But most of the leaders, in Europe as well, understand this.”
Opposition leader, Zionist Camp chairman, MK Isaac Herzog, sparked a storm at the conference when he slammed the additional budgets for isolated settlements over the support of communities inside the Green Line. “We can not continue to lie. As long as a child in an isolated settlement outside of the blocs in the Judea and Samaria receives more than a child from the Galilee the national priorities are twisted.” He continued: "The lobby of the isolated settlements and Judea and Samaria in Likud and Habayit Hayehudi is holding the government and the man who heads it in the most sensitive places, sitting inside the Prime Minister’s Office and sucking the budgets meant for the Galilee and the Negev. Netanyahu doesn’t move a millimeter on the peace process and won’t change anything in Israeli economy and in national priorities for the good of the Negev and the Galilee." He made clear he would not join a unity government: "I have no reason to be there." (Ynet Hebrew)
And at a conference at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel-Aviv University, former US and Israeli officials sparred over the issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Iran. Former US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, said that progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace could have led to different results for the Iran nuclear deal. Netanyahu’s former national security adviser, Uzi Arad said: "There was never a American plan to attack Iran" and that George Bush rejected the idea in 2007. Arad also said, "The fact that Israel stayed away from the discussions on the agreement, denied it the ability to influence it." (Maariv)
Quick Hits:
- Cases of soldiers' abuse of Palestinian detainees on the rise - Rise in troop deployment in the West Bank and large number of detainees since the wave of terror erupted two months ago could explain the surge, IDF says; army general raises issue during talk with soldiers. (Haaretz+)
- Tel Aviv Pub Owner: Police Using 'Intimidation Tactic' to Bar Left-wing Event - Holding of event sponsored by anti-occupation Breaking the Silence group may also be thwarted, as in Be'er Sheva last week, due to ostensible licensing issues. (Haaretz+)
- Google denies reaching YouTube monitoring agreement with Israel - Internet giant rejects Foreign Ministry statement, now retracted, of new shared mechanism to take down YouTube videos that incite to terrorism. (Haaretz+)
- Israelis and Palestinians rallied in West Bank for peace Saturday - 250 people marched from Batir to Etzion bloc, calling for end to ‘occupation, terror and violence.' The protest was organized by two Israeli left-wing NGOs, Combatants for Peace and Standing Together. (Times of Israel and Maariv)
- New Poll: one third of Israelis psychologically affected by images from attacks they see on social media networks - A survey conducted by NATAL organization for victims of trauma found that exposure to uncensored information on social media contributes to the sense of threat to personal security and disrupts the daily routine. (Maariv)
- Israeli Arab party leader makes Foreign Policy's '100 leading global thinkers' list - 'Middle East peace talks may be all but dead, but Ayman Odeh still dreams of resolving world’s most intractable conflict,' magazine writes. (Haaretz+)
- (Palestinian) Terror cell members jailed for plot to kill Jews on Temple Mount - One man sentenced to 13 years in jail for conspiracy to commit murder, attempted kidnapping with intent to murder. Two men jailed for several years each for aiding enemy in wartime, attempted robbery. Ringleader and other members still to be sentenced. (Israel Hayom)
- 17 Palestinian prisoners at Ramla jail in serious medical condition - According to Council for European Palestinian Relations, poor conditions in Israeli prisons have led to deterioration of health for large number of Palestinian prisoners. "Prison clinics have become renowned for offering only aspirin for all health treatments and physicians within the clinics are all soldiers," CEPR said in a report. (Maan)
- Israel's High Court Approves One House Demolition, Rejects Another - Justices say they have not fully discussed renewed tactic of destroying family homes of Palestinian terrorists. (Haaretz+)
- Abbas muzzles Hamas' al-Aqsa TV - Palestinian security services instruct communications companies to stop servicing Hamas' al- Aqsa TV; in past month, Israel closed two (sic – three) Hebron radio stations. (Ynet)
- Actor Sean Penn pays first visit to Israel for Haiti conference - American actor and director Sean Penn visits Israel for first time for conference organized by IsraAID humanitarian group on Haiti reconstruction efforts. Penn visits Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, meets with former President Shimon Peres. (Israel Hayom)
- Civic bravery to be honored at Israel's 68th Independence Day - Proposal unanimously accepted to honor those who have shown bravery in neutralizing terrorists, donating a kidney to strangers or rescuing children from a fire. (Yedioth/Ynet)
- 30,000 Israeli Pregnant Women Can't Afford Proper Nutrition - Study reveals that families in two lowest income deciles, below the poverty line, have to forgo fruit, vegetables, milk and eggs – essential for proper nutrition, especially for pregnant women. (Haaretz+)
- U.S. women’s studies group votes to join BDS movement - The association condemned injustice and violence against Palestinians and Israeli Arabs; decision sponsored by Feminist for Justice In/For Palestine. (JTA, Haaretz)
- Israeli Arab, Palestinian charged with smuggling banned materials into Gaza - Be'er Sheva court accuses men of illegally hiding and transporting welding wires, cables into the Strip along with legal items. (Haaretz+)
- Israel, Jordan issue joint tender for Red Sea-Dead Sea canal - Jordan and Israel jointly announce international tender for construction of canal to bring water from Red Sea to shrinking Dead Sea. Canal will bring drinking water to Israel, Jordan and Palestinians, with desalination byproducts to replenish Dead Sea. (Israel Hayom)
- Israeli military to begin enlisting HIV-positive soldiers - Policy change to allow people who are HIV-positive to enlist and serve in a variety of positions, except combat, so long as they meet series of health-related criteria. (Agencies, Haaretz)
- Man sparks police suspicion with ISIS tattoo request - Owner of Tel Aviv tattoo parlor alerts police to customer who asked for tattoo of jihadi group's flag to match his existing al-Qaida flag tattoo. Man cleared of suspicion after telling investigators he simply thinks terrorist groups' flags are "pretty." (Israel Hayom)
- Missing and remembering: Iraqi Kurdistan marked 70 years since the expulsion of the Jews - In Irbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish Iraqi region, there is a Office for the Affairs of Jews, a new initiative for the country-to-be: a special commemorative event for the Jewish community that was expelled by the Iraqi government. [Note: Jews were not expelled from Iraq, but in light of the circumstances felt pressure to leave. Those who chose to continued to live in Iraq. – OH] (Maariv)
- Israeli professor renounces 'royal part' of Canadian oath of allegiance - Prof. Dror Bar-Natan received Canadian citizenship, but came out against requirement to pledge fealty to Queen Elizabeth the II, calling the oath 'repulsive.' (Ynet)
- WATCH: Erdogan says he will resign if proven Turkey received oil from ISIS - 'If you say that, you have to prove it and when they will prove it, Tayyip Erdogan will not stay here.' (Haaretz)
- WATCH: 'No reasonable person' can say climate change is bigger threat than terror, says Rubio - Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate slammed President Obama's assertion at the Paris climate talks that climate change is the greatest threat to our future. (Agencies, Haaretz)
- WATCH: Saudi Arabia's women hit the campaign trail for first time - Women gear up for first chance to run for office since late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz granted them that right. (Agencies, Haaretz)
- Assad: Russia's Support Changes Balance on the Ground in Syria - Syrian president says would grant militant groups fighting his regime amnesty if they agree to lay down arms. (Agencies, Haaretz)
- Obama: Russia Will Come Around on Assad's Stepping Down - There won't be a '180-degree turn' overnight, U.S. president says; urges Turkey and Russia to set aside differences in favor of focusing on ISIS. (Agencies, Haaretz)
Features:
The 18 Cows Scaring Israel's Culture Minister Miri Regev
'48 mm: The International Festival on Nakba and Return' challenges the culture minister’s opinion about what can and cannot be screened. (Nirit Anderman, Haaretz+)
Israel’s Overlooked Issue With Palestinians: Cellular Service
The long-awaited awarding of 3G frequencies is a good sign both for app users and the overall Palestinian economy, the think tank Al-Shabaka says. (Amitai Ziv, Haaretz+)
Commentary/Analysis:
'48 mm: The International Festival on Nakba and Return' challenges the culture minister’s opinion about what can and cannot be screened. (Nirit Anderman, Haaretz+)
Israel’s Overlooked Issue With Palestinians: Cellular Service
The long-awaited awarding of 3G frequencies is a good sign both for app users and the overall Palestinian economy, the think tank Al-Shabaka says. (Amitai Ziv, Haaretz+)
Commentary/Analysis:
Israel's Terrible Identity Complex Will Lead to a Forced National Consciousness (Zvi Bar'el,
Haaretz+) The Israeli government's fear is that until the nationality law, or nationalism
law, is passed, the public will walk blindly without knowing its nationality or where its identity is
hiding.
Time to act: government policy is leading to a loss of identity as a Jewish and democratic state (Ami Ayalon, Gilad Sher and Orni Petruschka, Maariv) Even if it is not possible now to reach an agreement with our Palestinian neighbors, we have to take our destiny in our hands and strive toward safe separation and to shape our borders based on what is right for us.
How Can Israelis Who Hate Arabs Complain About Ashkenazi Racism? (Shani Gershi, Haaretz+) My Mizrahi brothers and sisters, only if you denounce the disdain against Arabs within your own community will you have the moral right to protest against racism.
Energized by common interests (Smadar Bat-Adam, Israel Hayom) The Israeli office in the Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy agency proves that, contrary to popular belief, not everyone is against us.
Harmful and living myths like that of Jonathan Pollard need to be shattered (Ran Adelist, Maariv) Just like the Palestinian girls and boys who go out to the struggle armed with knives and scissors, the Pollard affair is a propaganda candy. But the truth is that the one responsible for the maximum penalty imposed on him is the State of Israel.
Instead of Seeking Peace With Abbas, Netanyahu Tattles to the Teacher Obama (Haaretz Editorial) Israeli leaders used to accuse their Arab interlocutors of doublespeak; Netanyahu has upgraded his diplomacy to triplespeak.
Bizarro reality (Richard Baehr, Israel Hayom) Terrorism is wrong, unless its victims are Jews. Boycotts are wrong, unless they are aimed at the one Jewish state.
The Illusion of Palestinian Sovereignty (Amira Hass, Haaretz+) The West Bank’s division into 'territorial capsules' makes it hard for Palestinians to mass against Israeli aggression; instead, there are 'lone-wolf stabbers.'
A tree falls in the forest: In Europe they don’t really understand what Israel wants (Tal Schneider in Brussels, Maariv) What does the announcement of the suspension of diplomatic contacts with the EU on the Palestinian issue mean, and why was the labeling of Israeli products reported detail in Israel, but was not covered in Europe? [Note, nowhere in the Op-Ed does the write mention that the labeling is only of settlement products. - OH]
The Constant Parade of Sexual Harassment Scandals in Israel: Will It Ever End? (Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz+) The meteoric rise and devastating fall of Knesset member Yinon Magal cast a glaring spotlight on a major problem in modern Israeli politics – and Israeli society in general.
Not what they used to be (Dan Margalit, Israel Hayom) It is time to change the rules and allow lawmakers to expel Knesset members whose conduct shows them to be unworthy of a seat.
Time to act: government policy is leading to a loss of identity as a Jewish and democratic state (Ami Ayalon, Gilad Sher and Orni Petruschka, Maariv) Even if it is not possible now to reach an agreement with our Palestinian neighbors, we have to take our destiny in our hands and strive toward safe separation and to shape our borders based on what is right for us.
How Can Israelis Who Hate Arabs Complain About Ashkenazi Racism? (Shani Gershi, Haaretz+) My Mizrahi brothers and sisters, only if you denounce the disdain against Arabs within your own community will you have the moral right to protest against racism.
Energized by common interests (Smadar Bat-Adam, Israel Hayom) The Israeli office in the Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy agency proves that, contrary to popular belief, not everyone is against us.
Harmful and living myths like that of Jonathan Pollard need to be shattered (Ran Adelist, Maariv) Just like the Palestinian girls and boys who go out to the struggle armed with knives and scissors, the Pollard affair is a propaganda candy. But the truth is that the one responsible for the maximum penalty imposed on him is the State of Israel.
Instead of Seeking Peace With Abbas, Netanyahu Tattles to the Teacher Obama (Haaretz Editorial) Israeli leaders used to accuse their Arab interlocutors of doublespeak; Netanyahu has upgraded his diplomacy to triplespeak.
Bizarro reality (Richard Baehr, Israel Hayom) Terrorism is wrong, unless its victims are Jews. Boycotts are wrong, unless they are aimed at the one Jewish state.
The Illusion of Palestinian Sovereignty (Amira Hass, Haaretz+) The West Bank’s division into 'territorial capsules' makes it hard for Palestinians to mass against Israeli aggression; instead, there are 'lone-wolf stabbers.'
A tree falls in the forest: In Europe they don’t really understand what Israel wants (Tal Schneider in Brussels, Maariv) What does the announcement of the suspension of diplomatic contacts with the EU on the Palestinian issue mean, and why was the labeling of Israeli products reported detail in Israel, but was not covered in Europe? [Note, nowhere in the Op-Ed does the write mention that the labeling is only of settlement products. - OH]
The Constant Parade of Sexual Harassment Scandals in Israel: Will It Ever End? (Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz+) The meteoric rise and devastating fall of Knesset member Yinon Magal cast a glaring spotlight on a major problem in modern Israeli politics – and Israeli society in general.
Not what they used to be (Dan Margalit, Israel Hayom) It is time to change the rules and allow lawmakers to expel Knesset members whose conduct shows them to be unworthy of a seat.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.