APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday January 31, 2013

Quote of the day:

It's not an obvious path for a middle-aged Islamic Movement activist who only boarded an airplane for the first time when he was 35.
--Haaretz writes about a former Arab MK who now works as a pilot.**

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Wednesday January 30, 2013

Quote of the day:

The Holocaust has led Jewish Americans to the "wrong conclusion... That they have to support Israel no matter what."
--Israeli film director of "The Gatekeepers" speaks about the forces that harm the Jewish state.**

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Tuesday January 29, 2013

Quote of the day:

"It should be noted that the brigade commander believes that to totally prevent damage to the petitioners' property, he must deploy a large number of soldiers in the area at any given moment."
--Attorney Yuval Roitman, a senior deputy at the State Prosecutor's Office, tries to explain why the State cannot protect two elderly Palestinian farmers and their plot of land from endless attacks by Bat Ayin settlers.**

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Monday January 28, 2013

Quote of the day:
"I know it's not easy for an Arab player to pick up the gauntlet and play on a team that does not want him. But the time has arrived to say no to racism."
--Leading Arab-Israeli sports commentator Zouheir Bahloul on whether Arabs should play on the racist Beitar Jerusalem soccer team.**

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Sunday January 27, 2013

Quote of the day:

"It may surprise some of the dark fans of Beitar Jerusalem, but even Muslims are not so stupid, as the Kahanists in the eastern gallery think, to come to one of the most repulsive sport clubs in the world.**
--Shlomi Barzel, Sports editor of Haaretz, comments on the decision to acquire two Chechnyan Muslims to join the infamously racist soccer team.**

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Friday January 25, 2013

Number of the day:

0.
--Number of Israelis killed in West Bank in 2012.**

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Thursday January 24, 2013

Quote of the day:

"Only a strong tiger will take care of the weak."
--The campaign slogan - a take-off from Shas - of Pelly the Tiger, who won the elections at the Ramat Gan Safari.**

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Wednesday January 23, 2013

Quote of the day:
"Neither the Prime Minister nor his circle realized that the social protests had not died and that the chickens would come home to roost on election day.**
--Israel Hayom's Mordechai Gilat gives his take on what happened to Likud.**

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Tuesday January 22, 2013

Quote of the day:

Where is hatred when you need it? Where is the fervor and the fire − or at least a little smoke?
--Gideon Levy talks of the sleepy election for the 19th Knesset.**

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Monday January 21, 2013

Quote of the day:

"Sometimes it seems as though the seats up for election are not for the next Knesset, but rather the local municipality."
--In a beautifully written piece, Gideon Levy describes the gripes of indifferent Arab voters and an Arab MK campaigning for them to vote, even if it's not for him. (Haaretz)**

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 Sunday January 20, 2013

Quote of the day:

"Imagine if the Golden Dome - I'm being recorded so I can't say 'blown up' - but let's say the Dome was blown up, right? And we laid the cornerstone of the Temple in Jerusalem. Can you imagine? None of you would be here - all of you would be like, "I'm going to Israel, right?" No one would be here, it would be incredible!"
--Israeli media reveals fantasies of Habayit Hayehudi candidate, Jeremy Gimpel. (+972mag video and Haaretz+)

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Friday January 18, 2013

Quote of the day:

"The days of the bulldozers uprooting Jews is behind us, not ahead of us."

--Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells Maariv he has no plans of evacuating settlers from the West Bank in the next four years.**

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Thursday January 17, 2013

Number of the day:

300.
--Percentage hike in settlement construction planning in 2012, according to just released Peace Now report.**

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Wednesday January 16, 2013

Quote of the day:

"They are a mirror image of Netanyahu's campaign."
--Maariv commentator Nadav Eyal writes that the US President's remarks about the Israeli Prime Minister are the opposite of how the Israeli leader is portraying himself.**

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Tuesday January 15, 2013

Quote of the day:

"Let a hundred Bab al-Shams bloom. An outpost for an outpost. A blind eye for a blind eye. A flout for a flout. It's what our people on the hilltops call an appropriate Zionist response."
--Haaretz's Bradley Burston writes why he supports the Palestinian outpost in E-1 and why the Israeli government was so scared of it.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday January 13, 2013

Quote of the day:
"A blow like this reminds us that even if everything looks good on the surface, the fact is there is one law for me and another for him."
-- Yotam Ottolenghi talks about why his partner, Sami Tamimi, could not make it to the interview.**

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Thursday January 10, 2013

NOTE: IT'S SNOWING IN JERUSALEM!! And that has caused a delay to News Nosh.

Quote of the day:

"Whoever wants to be a partner in a topnotch ideological activity is invited to invest. We don't promise profits right now, but money's value will be preserved and probably will make a nice earning in the end."
--Settler Arieh King is looking for partners to buy land in E-1.**

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Wednesday January 9, 2013

Quote of the day:

"Are we on the edge of a third intifada? It is a real possibility because of the amount of despair coupled with the (political) stalemate," said
--Former Shin Bet chief and Yesh Atid candidate says negotiations must be a priority of the next government. **

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Tuesday January 8, 2013

Quote of the day:

"On one hand, it wants to be a people's army and on the other, [it's] a cruel occupation army, similar to the Germans during World War II."
-- In new Israeli documentary film, 'The Gatekeepers,' Former Shin Bet chief Avraham Shalom acknowledges that the occupation of the Palestinians inflicts damage on the Israeli side. The film just won the U.S. National Society of Film Critics' award for best documentary.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday January 7, 2013

Quote of the day:

"We may not be facing thousands of demonstrators storming border fences with AK-47s, but that doesn't diminish the seriousness of the situation."
--(Gush) Etzion Sector Commander Colonel Yaniv Alaluf told soldiers the Third Intifada has begun.**

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Sunday January 6, 2013

Quote of the day:

"The Jewish and Arab citizens can live together. I am not talking about the 'good Arab,' who is expected to adhere to the boundaries of the discourse in Israel.
--MK Hanin Zouebi, the 'most-hated woman in Knesset,' shares her vision of co-existence.**

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Friday January 4, 2013

Quote of the day:

"Obviously I can't go into details, but suffice to say it left the members of those closed forums flabbergasted on more than one occasion."
--Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin gives his first post-job interview to the press because he is scared what the prime minister and defense minister may do.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday January 3, 2013

Quote of the day:

"You (Israelis) have some sort of expectation that the President will immediately support everything Israel does, but you forget that the US is a very big country that does business and has relations with all the countries of the world, not just Israel."
--Reggie Love, former personal assistant to US President Barack Obama, parties in Israel and gives an interview to Yedioth.**

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Wednesday January 2, 2013

Quote of the day:

"Under a blessed cloud of secrecy, important negotiations were held with Hamas about the future of Gaza..."
--Former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy writes about Israel's quiet but active new policy with Hamas.**

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Tuesday January 1, 2013

HAPPY 2013!!!

Quote of the day:

"There is nothing wrong with talking to them, as long as we get an answer."
--Israeli President Shimon Peres says it's okay to talk to Hamas.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday December 31st, 2012

Quote of the day:

"If my hands are covered in blood, it is the blood of the children I delivered [as an obstetrician]. I am proud to say I brought life into this world, and yet some of you express pride in killing Arab children."
--A visibly agitated MK Ahmed Tibi responds at public debate to students accusing him of being connected to killings of Jews.**

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Sunday December 30, 2012

Quote of the day:

"I call on the Egyptian Jews to return to their homeland."
--Dr. Essam al-Erian, deputy chief of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, says returning Jewish Egyptians will get their property back. (Haaretz)