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News Nosh 01.09.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday January 9, 2017  
 
Quote of the day #1:
"None of you should dare compare a semitrailer traveling 100 km/h to a terrorist who is lying down, incapacitated."
--An incensed IDF officer cadet who was present at the truck-ramming attack in Jerusalem wrote afterward on Facebook in refute of allegations that her fellow soldiers hesitated to fire for fear of prosecution, following the conviction of Sgt. Elor Azariya, who executed a wounded and prone Palestinian assailant.*
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News Nosh 01.06.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday January 6, 2017  
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
“Someone should take a grenade and blow her up and spread the remaining bits of her around so that her body will be eaten by dogs. G-d will pay her back for this!!!!”
--Post written in social media network by an Israeli angry at military judge Maya Heller who convicted Sgt. Elor Azariya of manslaughter in the execution of Palestinian assailant Abdul Fattah Al-Sharif. Israel's Chief Justice warned that the incitement against judges endangered Israeli democracy.
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News Nosh 01.05.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday January 5, 2017  
 
Quote of the day:
"For obvious reasons, the IDF sought to portray the sergeant as a rotten apple, to be thrown out of the barrel, put on trial and made an example of. But while as an adult he is fully responsible for his actions and, instead of rallying around his family, we should be asking what in his upbringing and education contributed to that fatal shooting, he is one of us. Every single Israeli government of the last 49 years and the Israeli citizens who voted it into power conspired to place him in a bizarre situation that morning in Hebron. The politicians and pundits, not just those on the far-right, who are now baying against the military court, but even “mainstream” ones like centrist Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid, who last year made posturing speeches on how Palestinian attackers should not be allowed to live, gave Azaria a helping hand."
--Haaretz journalist Anshel Pfeffer in an analysis of the verdict.*
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News Nosh 01.04.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday January 4, 2017  
 
Quote of the day:
“An 18-year-old who enlists in the IDF isn’t everyone’s child, he isn’t a baby who was taken prisoner. He’s a fighter, he’s a soldier, he’s called on to put his life on the line.” 
--IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot said in regards to those who defended Sgt. Elor Azariya, who is on trial for the killing of an incapacitated Palestinian assailant.**
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News Nosh 01.03.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday January 3, 2017  
 
Quote of the day:
"You are declaring war against the Palestinians and the world. The Bennett government is carrying out the Habayit Hayehudi vision and destroying the future of the country."
--Meretz MK Michal Rozin said in reaction to the proposal by Habayit Hayehudi leader Minister Naftali Bennett to apply Israeli sovereignty over Maaleh Adumim settlement.**
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News Nosh 01.02.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday January 2, 2017  
 
Quote of the day:
"At least we pay for our own suits."
--Zionist Union's MK Tzipi Livni tweeted after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rebuffed graft suspicions against him, telling a meeting of Likud ministers that he suggested the opposition "cool down and call off their tailors." Jewish-American tycoon reportedly testified that he gave Netanyahu suits as gifts.**
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News Nosh 12.30.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, December 30, 2016 
Note: News Nosh will be off on New Year's Day. Happy New Year to all our readers!
 
Quote of the day:
"In a bi-national state, we will have the majority and then Tibi will be Prime Minister, not Netanyahu. When that happens, I will treat you as you treat us, the Arabs."
--MK Ahmad Tibi (Joint List) said in reference to US. Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech, in which the latter said the Netanyahu government is driven by settlers and this will lead to a bi-national state. Tibi spoke at a panel hosted at Ono Academic College debating the controversial Muezzin Law, Maariv reported.
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News Nosh 12.29.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday December 29, 2016 
Quote of the day:
"The IDF is an army that if it loses its basic values and moral legitimacy, it could wind up looking like ISIS."
-- Former defense minister and former IDF chief of staff, Moshe Yaalon said publicly that Israeli right-wing politicians acted against the country when they expressed support for the soldier Elor Azariya, of the 'Shooting Soldier in Hebron' affair and that they fomented division among Israelis.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Does being not Jewish actually affect the type of person someone is? Absolutely not. We need to know how to accept those who are different and to respect their religion, their ethnicity, and their views...See what happened in Nazi Germany. It’s a terrible, but precise example of what happens when people hate other people based on their religion." 
--Pop star, 'Static,' responded to his followers who cursed him on Instagram because he posted a photo of a Christmas tree with holiday greetings to his Columbian friends.**
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News Nosh 12.22.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday December 22, 2016  

You Must Be Kidding: 
"It is permitted to speak Arabic without fear."
--Israel’s Second (Broadcasting) Authority said that that sentence, said by Mira Awad, an Israeli Arab singer and actress, in a TV ad for civil rights was problematic. The Authority prevented the ad from being aired.**
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News Nosh 12.21.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday December 21, 2016
 
You Must Be Kidding #1: 
“I understand what it is to lose a home. After the 1999 elections, without any warning, my family and I were driven out of the [Prime Minister's Residence], just thrown on the street. We had to go to the Sheraton Plaza. It's a terrible feeling."
--Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tried to show empathy towards Amona residents (who anyway are getting 1 million shekels per family to move off other people's land), according to a Yedioth report.*
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