APN/Peace Now in the News: January 9-January 16, 2015

Boston Globe - January 12, 2015
APN's Ori Nir op-ed: Israelis need optimism
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/01/12/israelis-need-optimism/WTc5q4ECTw7hTBd1rp9FyN/story.html

The Forward - January 9, 2015
APN participates in progressive list running in elections for WZO
http://forward.com/articles/212347/the-zionist-election-you-can-participate-in-if-y/

The Wrap - January 15, 2015
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer to take part in premiere of new Travel Channel series
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/travel-channel-breaking-borders-sets-premiere-date-location-170024879.html

News Nosh 01.21.15


APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday January 21, 2015

Quote of the day:
"I call on all political elements – don't incite and inflame the sector for cynical, propagandistic purposes. The only way to deal with terror is to deal with the factors that motivate terror."
--Left-wing Meretz party leader Zehava Gal-On after remarks by right-wing leaders following the stabbing attack today in Tel-Aviv.**

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APN Strongly Condemns Tel Aviv Stabbing Attack

Americans for Peace Now (APN) is horrified and outraged by today's stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, which left 13 innocent civilians injured, some of them severely.

APN strongly condemns this terrorist attack by a young Palestinian from the West Bank, and stands with the people of Israel as they confront violence and terror. 

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Americans for Peace Now (APN) is horrified and outraged by the stabbing attack in Tel Aviv

Americans for Peace Now (APN) is horrified and outraged by today's stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, which left 13 innocent civilians injured, some of them severely.

APN strongly condemns this terrorist attack by a young Palestinian from the West Bank, and stands with the people of Israel.

The stabber, a 22-year-old from the West Bank town of Tulkarm, reportedly told his interrogators that he was radicalized by recent violence and by Islamist messages. He apparently acted alone, not by order of a Palestinian organization. A spokesman for Hamas in the Gaza Strip praised his attack.

 

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News Nosh 01.22.15


APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday January 22, 2015

Quote of the day:
“We need to dismantle the biggest cartel in the country: the settlements cartel.”
--MK Amir Peretz slams Habayit Hayehudi party in a storm that broke out in the Knesset yesterday.**

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Americans for Peace Now (APN) calls on Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner (R-Ohio) to re-issue his invitation for the prime minister of Israel to address Congress for a later date, after the deadline for negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, and following the elections in Israel, after a new government coalition is formed.

APN’s President and CEO Debra DeLee said: “Both the timing of the invitation and its manner are outrageous. They are inappropriate and irresponsible. Not only were the invitations issued in a way that violates protocol, their timing suggests congressional meddling in a foreign county’s election campaign – two weeks only before Israel’s general elections, in which Benjamin Netanyahu is a candidate. Furthermore, the timing strongly suggests an attempt to use a foreign leader to influence the debate between Congress and the White House over America’s Iran policy. To top it all, this move uses Israel, yet again, as a wedge issue in internal American politics. Speaker Boehner’s invitation – both its timing and manner – is therefore a disservice to US national security interests and to Israel’s.  

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News Nosh 01.23.15

APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday January 23, 2015

Phrase of the day:
'Persona non-grata.'
--Yedioth's Shimon Shiffer on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after arranging a visit to the US without coordinating with the US President.**

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News Nosh 01.25.15


APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday January 25, 2015

Quote of the day:
"They are helping Netanyahu beat his rivals here, and he is helping them humiliate their rival there."
--Yedioth's senior commentator Nahum Barnea writes that the deal between the US Republican Party and the Likud is dangerous.**

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News Nosh 01.26.15


APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday January 26, 2015

Quote of the day:
“Hello everybody, this Druze is my little brother and I wanna send you all a message after some thinking 
Love more
Be more patient
Be nicer
Be kinder
Give more
Share more
Laugh more
And cry more
After all, we all belong to the same race, the human race..."

--Adam Hasoun, brother of Tommy, who was beaten Friday by 10 religious Jewish men in Jerusalem when they heard him speaking Arabic, posted a message to English-speaking immigrants on a Tel-Aviv Facebook group.**

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This week, Alpher discusses the repercussions of the invitation to Netanyahu to address Congress; the Mossad advisory against escalating sanctions and Israel’s tactics against Iran; the attack last week across the Golan border that was attributed to Israel that resulted in the death of an Iranian Quds Force general; strategic ramifications for the elections given the united electoral list of Arab citizens of Israel and the Labor primaries having produced a list with an unusually large, young contingent of women reform advocates; the strategic balance sheet that King Salman inherits after the death of Saudi King Abdullah last week and a coup staged in Yemen by a Zaidi-Shiite sect;

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