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News Nosh 8.13.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday August 13, 2019
 
Quote of the day #1:
“Its name is a declaration that we aren’t hiding from that past. We’re acknowledging the history and clearly saying: This is our place, it belongs to us now, but we remember and respect what was here in the past.”
--Roni Gilat, a member of Kibbutz Zikim, where members decided that the beautiful and only Arab house in their midst would bear the name of the Arab family that built it a century ago.*

Quote of the day #2:
"The fact that he was found dead with David Grossman’s latest book says a lot about him. But even in this case the whole truth must be told. The reaction of the settlers was absolute false naïveté: How is it possible to kill such a good person, who only went to buy a book. A gift for his rabbis? This is nothing less than a war of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness, against the angels of terror who harmed us only out of blind hatred. Esau is an enemy of Jacob. That is the Jewish destiny and we are the victims. As far as they’re concerned, there is no connection between the murder of the soldier and the occupation. They find no connection between the murder and the hopeless situation of the nearly 3 million Palestinians who are being crushed under the burden of the occupation of the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service. The fact that there is almost no family in the West Bank that hasn’t experience death and humiliation and harassment, and people wounded and maimed after being shot by the security forces, makes no difference to them. They want it all. Both to settle on land that doesn’t belong to them, and to live in peace and quiet, every man under his vine and fig tree."
--Haaretz commentator Nehemia Shtrasler wrote in an Op-Ed about the settler reactions to the Palestinian killing of Israeli soldier Dvir Sorek in the West Bank.**

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News Nosh 8.12.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday August 12, 2019
 
Quote of the day:
"Self-criticism and setting things right are the key to the survival and growth of any society. The State of Israel is not just any state, but a state that has a purpose."
-Israeli Ambassador to Panama, a member of the Druze faith, Reda Mansour, said regarding his own sharp criticism of the demeaning treatment he received by a security person when he was entering Ben-Gurion Airport.**

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News Nosh 8.11.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday August 11, 2019


You Must Be Kidding: 
“You can read between the lines…we don’t accept non-residents, whether from nearby villages or from down below [the Arab part of Nazareth], or from the entire area. We can’t allow some in and exclude others. As soon as I let one non-resident in, I have to allow residents of Nazareth, Kafr Kana and other nearby areas in as well.” 
--Manager of Nof Hagalil country club explained in roundabout way to potential customer who doesn't live in Nof Hagalil that the club does not accept Arabs as members, but then agreed to allow the out-of-towner join, thinking he was Jewish.*

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News Nosh 8.8.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday August 8, 2019
 

You Must Be Kidding: 
Israel's public broadcaster Kan removed all episodes available online of a police docudrama set in Jerusalem and police apologized, following a report by Haaretz that officers planted a gun in the house of an East Jerusalem Palestinian in the course of filming the show.

 
Quote of the day:
"The climax of the series was the planting of the gun in Samer Sleiman’s house. That was the moment of truth. That’s how the police operate in the territories. Sometimes they plant evidence, or make up a pretext for brutal behavior. And in general, they plant themselves in places where they shouldn’t be at all. It’s not just the planted weaponry; it’s all based on deceit – the supposedly unoccupied status of the supposedly united city; the dangers exaggerated to the point of absurdity; the security services who fight these dangers and make them worse by their very violent and provocative presence, in Jerusalem as in the West Bank."
--Haaretz commentator Gideon Levy wrote in today's paper.**
Breaking News:
Israeli Soldier Killed in West Bank Attack; Security Forces Suspect Failed Kidnapping
Shin Bet, army and police have launched an investigation into the stabbing attack that claimed the life of 19-year-old yeshiva student Dvir Sorek ■ Manhunt underway. (Haaretz, Ynet, Israel Hayom)

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News Nosh 7.25.19

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday July 25, 2019

 Quote of the day:

"The stay in the village was a lot of fun. According to the plan, the team changed every three months, but the guys did not want to go home. Everyone wanted to stay there. What could be bad? Beach, diving, amazing women."
--Former senior Mossad agent, Aharon (Araleh) Sharf, said about the diving resort in Sudan that the Mossad ran in the '80's as a cover for a base to secretly aid the exodus of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.*

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News Nosh 7.24.19

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday July 24, 2019
 

Quote of the day:

"We have to look at a pitcher that came from Grandma and Grandpa’s house and ask whom it originally belonged to.”
--Aya Gov, who created the 'Archive of Plunder' as her final project at the Bezalel Academy of the Arts after discovering that her grandfather came into possession of such objects during the war, said that because in Israel there is no organization that represents all of the Palestinians in the discussion regarding the return of stolen property from war, citizens have to ask who are the rightful owners of the objects.*

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News Nosh 7.23.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday July 23, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
“You can demolish the building over our heads. Our whole lives are here. Where can we go?”
--Father at one of the 70 homes Israel demolished in Wadi Hummous, inside the Palestinian Territories, Monday.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
16.
--The number of Jewish settler outposts established since 2017 inside the Palestinian Territories without authorization, according to the latest Peace Now report.*

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News Nosh 7.22.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday July 22, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
"Despite sophisticated intelligence methods and the huge amount of money the state wastes on the battle against BDS, Israel will never manage to make criticism of the occupation go away."
--From today's Haaretz Editorial.*

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News Nosh 7.21.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 21, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
“To claim that Israel is the victim of the Palestinians isn’t just to ignore the occupation, it’s to justify its practices entirely.”
—Haaretz commentator Rogel Alpher wrote in an Op-Ed after U.S. peace envoy Jason Greenblatt said in an interview with PBS on Wednesday that "Israel is actually more the victim than the party that's responsible.” Greenblatt also rejected the term "occupied" to describe the West Bank and called the use of the word 'settlements' "pejorative." **

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