APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday April 28, 2020

Quotes of the day:
“I want to convey to Israeli society and the world a message stemming from my deep, bleeding wound: This conflict has taken victims from all of us, and it does not distinguish between combatants and civilians, between men and women, between adults and children. So I say to you: Enough hatred and resentment. Let’s live in peace and love because we [Palestinians], just like you, love life and are doing our best just to get by.”
--Yakoub Rabi, whose wife Aisha was killed in 2018 by a settler teen, said in a speech at the Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony Monday night.*

"What is threatening to many members of the Israeli public about the (joint) Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony, even in its virtual format this year, is not only the cooperation with the 'enemy.' While on an overt level the ceremony arouses harsh opposition because of the standing shoulder to shoulder alongside bereaved Palestinian parents and siblings: In the public subconscious the ceremony is frightening because it challenges the necessity of death. By its very nature, the ceremony undermines the official effort to provide a series of justifications for death, in order to alleviate the pain somewhat, so that death will be acceptable. And of course that helps to prepare the ground for a continuation of the occupation and the fighting."
--Yaki Sagi, a clinical psychologist, writes in Haaretz.**

"Where is the Shin Bet when you need it, where are the police and the security forces? Who will protect us from the tens of thousands of ticking bombs that will be found at the foot of our children's rooms and bedrooms? For 20 years we were scared to death of them, 20 years we were warned about them, since the Second Intifada we have not allowed them to stay here (overnight) and suddenly the danger was gone and with it, the ban on staying overnight in Israel."
--Gideon Levy writes about how corona changed Israelis' perception of Palestinians - even if for a short time.***

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday April 27, 2020

Quote of the day:

"There will come a day when both Israeli-Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews will feel that they can play a full part in this connection. Whether they want it or not, Israel is a part of them."
--Top Yedioth political commentator, Nahum Barnea, writes about Memorial Day and Independence Day, which together express the partnership of the fate that invites us to live here, "for good and for bad."*

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“Arieh is a robust man of action and I have no doubt he will continue to contribute much to all residents of Jerusalem in his role as deputy mayor
—Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon said regarding his plan to get city council’s approval to appoint right-wing settler activist Arieh King as his deputy. King is best known for settling Jews in East Jerusalem and evicting Palestinian families from the city's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.**

Breaking News:
Report: 7 killed in Israeli attack in Syria that targeted Iran, Hezbollah

APN's Daily News Review from Israel - Sunday April 26, 2020

Quotes of the Day:

“But someone should have told us about Gideon’s victims and about Daoud who fought the Palmachnik Dudu. Someone should have told us about their just cause, alongside our own, about the bitter fate we had in store for them and imposed on them.”
—Haaretz commentator Gideon Levy examines Israeli society’s understanding of the Nakba by looking at the fate of the village which was destroyed in part by the soldier after whom he was named.**

“(Coronavirus) will not prevent us from fulfilling the significant human need to come together, Israelis and Palestinians, to remember and remind others of our loved ones, and to say once more that a just peace is the key to a better future for us all – an even stronger message today in a time when people in Israel, Palestine and all over the world are standing together against a joint threat.”
—Yonatan Gher, Israeli co-executive director of Combatants for Peace said about the annual Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony being held Monday live online.**

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday April 23, 2020

Number of the day: 75

• Percentage of Palestinian citizens of Israel who identify themselves as Israeli, according to a poll by the Jewish People Policy Institute's Pluralism Index.*

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday April 22, 2020

Number of the day: 31

• The percentage of Israelis who believe that Binyamin Netanyahu will vacate his chair for Benny Gantz, as the coalition agreement requires.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday April 21, 2020

Quote of the day:

"Where the weakening of democracy and the justice system are concerned, the elimination of an alternative to (Netanyahu’s) rule, the future of the occupied Territories and the power of the High Court, Netanyahu's deserves a grade of 9 out of 10 (for fulfilling his election promises). What does Gantz deserve? Students who had a particularly hard time would once have received the following grade on their end-of-year report cards: 'Graduates to second grade but not at our school.'"
--Yedioth political analyst Nahum Barnea gives grades to the leaders of Likud and Kahol-Lavan for their unity government agreement on the basis of the fulfillment of their election promises.*

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