News Nosh: January 2012 Archives

News Nosh 1.31.12

January 31, 2012 9:53 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Quote of the day:

"The future of the illegal settlement outpost of Migron hovers over the primary."
--Haaretz's Knesset affairs commentator writing about what happens if far-right wing Likud member Moshe Feiglin gets more than 25% of the votes in today's Likud party primaries.

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News Nosh 1.30.12

January 30, 2012 9:25 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday, January 30, 2012

Quote of the day:
"Whoever believes that is a racist Jew."
--Avraham Burg in response to the question: Are we are the Chosen People? as asked in a much-discussed poll by the Guttman Institute **

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News Nosh 1.27.12

January 27, 2012 9:37 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday, January 27, 2012

Quote of the day:

"I informed the cabinet we have no ability to hit the Iranian nuclear program in a meaningful way."
--Senior IDF officer

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News Nosh 1.26.12

January 26, 2012 9:27 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Quote of the day:

"After long years, during which they reported from here non-stop, the international news channels are cutting down the number of employees in Israel...It turns out that viewers in the world are also tired of waiting for peace in the Middle East."
--"Disengagement Plan," Magazine article in today's Maariv.**

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News Nosh 1.25.12

January 25, 2012 9:15 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Quote of the day:
"Their goal is not protecting the homes in Migron. Their real aim is to wear down the IDF and the court...Who can convince the West that Israel is still a democracy if it can't even carry out a High Court ruling?"
--Commentator Dan Margalit writing 'If I were a settler' in the conservative 'Israel Hayom' newspaper.**

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News Nosh 1.24.12

January 24, 2012 9:10 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Quote of the day:

"I am glad that the prime minister didn't give in to the defense minister's plans...The Peace Now activists who wanted to see blood will have to face disappointment."
--Far right-wing Likud MK Danny Danon expresses satisfaction with government compromise for evacuation of Migron outpost. (Ynet)**

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News Nosh 1.23.12

January 23, 2012 9:18 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday, January 23, 2011

Quote of the day:

"From here to here."
--Caption under cartoon of crane picking up outpost house in Migron and moving it to adjacent spot as part of outpost dismantling orders.** (Haaretz)

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News Nosh 1.20.12

January 20, 2012 9:29 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday, January 20, 2011

Quote of the day:

"There's no way I'm joining Kadima. They're a bunch of cynical politicians who have been cast out from other parties. No one has any clue as to what, if anything, they believe in and there is no chance I am joining them."
--Yair Lapid, journalist-turned-politician ends the mystery.

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News Nosh 1.19.12

January 19, 2012 10:01 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday January 19, 2012

Quote of the day:
"Police will receive the message that killing an Arab is not a serious thing to the ministers responsible for law enforcement in Israel. Citizens, particularly Arabs, will get the message that their lives are horrifically cheap."

--Haaretz Editorial on the recommendation by the Justice Minister to pardon a police officer who shot dead an Arab-Israeli car thief.**

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News Nosh 1.18.12

January 18, 2012 9:22 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday January 18, 2012

Quote of the day:
"The Netanyahu coalition lives in a fantasy universe. Most of its members truly believe that their parliamentary power reflects the world at large. Bullying for them has become not just a way of life, but a replacement for strategy."
--Haaretz Commentator Carlo Strenger writing about the unrecognized relevance of Europe to Israel.**

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News Nosh 1.17.12

By Stacey Pistritto on January 17, 2012 9:39 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday January 17, 2012

Quote of the day:
"There's a direct link between calls not to rent apartments to Arabs and calls not to rent apartments to Ethiopians."
--Statement by Shutafut-Sharakah, an Arab-Jewish coalition, in regards to its support for the Ethiopian young man walking to Jerusalem to protest racism.**

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News Nosh 1.13.12

January 13, 2012 9:33 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday January 13, 2012

Quote of the day:
"The High Court is afraid of ruling against the Knesset." --Unnamed source tells Haaretz why the Citizenship Law and Naqba Law were upheld.**

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News Nosh 1.12.12

January 12, 2012 1:55 PM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday January 12, 2012

Quote of the day:
"The decision is proof that one shouldn't have any faith in the Israeli judicial system. It is clear that the Supreme Court is influenced by the wave of fascism and racism sweeping Israel and the judges weren't expected to act in any other way."
--Taysar Hatib, an Israel-Arab whose wife Lana is from Nablus, reacting to the High Court ruling on Israeli-Palestinian couples.**

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News Nosh 1.11.12

January 11, 2012 9:21 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday January 11, 2012

Quote of the day:
"[We] promise to make every effort to give [Peace Now] material for many more hefty reports on construction."
--Danny Dayan, chairman of the Yesha Council of settlements, responding to the Peace Now report exposing the soaring construction in settlements in 2011.**

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News Nosh 1.10.12

January 10, 2012 9:24 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday January 10, 2012

Quote of the day:
"The aim is to lock the Palestinians in the talks and give them a few sweets in return."
--An Israeli source tells Haaretz of the prime minister's plan to provide Palestinians with a concession to keep talking and not go to the UN.**

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News Nosh 1.9.12

January 9, 2012 9:50 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday January 9, 2012

Quote of the day:
"It's not Ramat Gilad."
--Text message sent by chairman of the coalition, Likud MK Zeev Elkin, to settler activist later arrested for rioting on IDF base and tracking IDF movements.**

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News Nosh 1.8.12

January 8, 2012 10:54 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday January 8, 2012

Quote of the day:
"I don't think there's room for any doomsday scenarios or comparisons with the Holocaust." --former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz contradicting his 2006 description of the Iranian threat on Israel.**

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News Nosh 12.6.12

January 6, 2012 9:18 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday January 6, 2012

NOTE: Today's News Nosh format is different. We hope you enjoy. Shabbat Shalom and happy weekend.

Quote of the day:
"The best fighters of our organization are the women." --Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan commenting on the issue of women's exclusion in Israeli society.**

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News Nosh 1.5.12

January 5, 2012 9:19 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday January 5, 2012

Quote of the day:
"Netanyahu raised a white flag after he saw that his true face was exposed." --Member of Kadima part tells Maariv following prime minister's decision to freeze controversial bill.**

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News Nosh 1.3.12

January 3, 2012 9:09 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday January 3, 2012

Quote of the day:
“Our feelings are a mixture of insult and frustration when an IDF soldier is tasked with vacating a Jew who is rioting and cursing him…like “Nazi”- and stoning him. The feeling is that this is not supposed to be our mission.” --Lieutenant-Colonel Tzur Harpaz, who was injured by right-wing rioters who broke into an IDF base.**

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News Nosh 1.2.12

January 2, 2012 10:52 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday January 2, 2012

Quote of the day:
“It’s a fun feeling – you are filled with adrenaline and energy during such operations." -Eran, Israeli teenager describing the new project where armed Israeli teens detain Palestinians laborers working illegally in Israel.**

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News Nosh 1.1.12

January 1, 2012 10:50 AM | No Comments

APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday January 1, 2012

Quote of the day:
"One morning, the Mayor of Jerusalem wakes up and decides that 70,000 city residents, Jerusalemites from birth, will not be a part of the city. Is this decision part of the authority of the mayor? No. But Jerusalem is not a regular city." --Yehudit Oppenheimer, Director of Ir Amim, slams the announcement by Jerusalem's Mayor Nir Barekat to cut-off the Jerusalem residency of tens of thousands of Arab Jerusalemites.**

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