APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday July 15, 2020

Quote of the Day:

"Israel put out a contract on any struggle that seems violent. Then BDS came along and demonstrated a nonviolent path and that embarrassed Israel and forced it to say that it opposed any type of opposition to the occupation. I’m in favor of a boycott against the occupation, including a boycott against the settlements."
--In an in-depth interview, MK Ahmed Tibi blames the Israeli left-wing for the occupation and the settlements and is in favor of a boycott to end them.*

“From the first day here, we hoped to go from individuals to multitudes, but we can only rest on our laurels when the goal is attained, and that’s when Netanyahu goes home. We hoped for it, but we didn’t think it would get to this.”
—Amir Haskel, a protest leader and former general, said at the massive protest outside the Prime Minister’s Residence last night.**

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday July 14, 2020

 Quote of the Day:"An absurd spectacle is taking place in the country. The decision-making is so shallow, like the water in the toddlers' pool. The public pools are closed, but those who are able to, can pay 500 for a one-time family entrance to the pool at a luxury hotel. Those who don’t have the money don’t interest anyone anyway. They can go to the beach and sit on the sand. The state will already take from him the 500 shekels for not wearing a mask in public."
--Commentator Orit Miller-Katav takes a sharp look at the government's handling of the corona crisis.**

You Must Be Kidding: 
Jewish Israelis are moving to the West Bank for a better quality of life during the pandemic, while Palestinian laborers from the West Bank were forced by their Israeli employer to sleep at an Israeli garbage dump because the employer did not want to allow them to go home for fear they would not be allowed to return to work.*

APN's daily news review from IsraelMonday July 13, 2020

Quote of the day:

"Junior Channel [owned by Channel 13 - OH] is very sorry for the things that 'Roy Boy' said and is disgusted by the content. This kind of conduct is in no way acceptable to the channel, for which the values of mutual respect, tolerance and equality for every person regardless of religion, race and gender are engraved on its flag."
--Israeli TV Channel 13, which owns the children's 'Junior Channel,' announced it was freezing the filming of the newest season of 'Roy Boy,' after a racist video clip filmed by its star, Roy Oz, went viral.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday July 9, 2020

Quotes of the day:
"If we don't receive money in the coming days, you will have a world war."
--Unemployed sound technician, Eyal Altraz warned the Prime Minister.*

"Everything that is currently sparking public rage in Israel with violent potential – temporary unemployment, financial insecurity, violation of rights, disgust with leaders and a lack of hope – is considered superfluous among that other nation living under the rule of the Israeli government and the Israeli army."
--Haaretz's Gideon Levy looks at Israelis' rage and asks if it will help them understand Israeli violence.**

If you were expecting the "Action Alert: Say No to Your Tax Dollars Paying For Illegal Annexation" - you will find that HERE

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday July 8, 2020

You Must Be Kidding: 
"We are not exactly following the limits set by the Ministry of Health.”
--Transportation Minister Miri Regev said in her speech before dozens of people at the (expensive) inauguration of new highway interchange. Afterward she warned that if people don't follow the guidelines, "we will be forced to make a decision to return to closure."**

 APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday July 7, 2020

Quote of the day:

"The hearts of the people of Hura are completely with you, we embrace you and lower our heads in the wake of Michael's death - a brave hero and a man of morals, who jumped without hesitation to save a mother and her children, and paid the heaviest price of all. And their religion, ethnicity…did not matter to him. For him, they were, first and foremost, human beings to be rescued."
--Mayor of Hura, Habes Al-Atawneh, said in condolences to the family of Michael Ben-Zikri, who died when he drowned after saving a family from the Bedouin village of Hura.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday July 6, 2020

Quote of the day:

“The occupation is the mother of all evils…The status quo is good for Israel because Israel gets all it wants without paying a price.”
In an interview, former Shin Bet chief Carmi Gillon, says the Palestinians “got screwed.”*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday July 5, 2020

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Applying sovereignty is the most rational, humane and security-driven decision, which is reinforced by the Bible."
--President Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday July 2, 2020

Quote of the day:

"And so, to sum up, what Netanyahu has managed, right now, to do is to burn the stew, to make Israeli initiatives, once again, loathsome to countries around the world, to harm relations with the United States, to quarrel with the neighbor to the east, and to deepen the chasm between the leadership and the people, between the decision makers and the hundreds of thousands of unemployed who do not understand how a government set up to fight corona and the collapsing economy has plunged us all into a far-fetched, unnecessary initiative, that has no connection to a real solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
--Yedioth Ahronoth commentator Ariella Ringel-Hoffman writes about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's annexation bid.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Israel’s Public Security Minister Amir Ohana (Likud) postponed the enforcement of a decision requiring private security guards to leave their guns at work in order to reduce the danger that hovers over the lives of women in violent relationships and he is trying to obtain a six-month delay in the implementation of a law that makes it a crime to pay for prostitution services.**