By Rob Eshman Last Monday night after dinner, after the dishes were cleared, I sat in my dining room with Mark
Rosenblum and asked him the question I'd long been meaning to ask: Why don't you just give up?
When Israel's Maariv daily wrote about housing construction in East Jerusalem this summer, it offered exact numbers - down to the individual house.
Since the birth of the peace process, popular wisdom has held that an Israeli leader cannot be expected to expend much
domestic political capital during talks, because political capital must be saved to "sell" any agreement at the end of
talks. In principle, there is some logic in this argument. In practice, that logic is now hitting a brick wall. If
recent events indicate the patterns of action to come, talks will be in danger of falling apart long before an
agreement is in reach.
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Topics discussed are the Assad regime and its assessment of President Obama's decision to postpone a punitive attack pending congressional approval; Israeli assessment of the decision to postpone. Also, the issue of shortages of and long lines for gas masks in Israel, and Israel's security needs if and when a two-state solution is reached.
By Rob Eshman
Last Monday night after dinner, after the dishes were cleared, I sat in my dining room with Mark Rosenblum and
asked him the question I'd long been meaning to ask: Why don't you just give up?
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday August 26, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Due to the large number of discriminatory laws, what is needed now is a law to protect the Arab population from
the tyranny of the majority, because democracy in the broad sense means protecting the rights of the minority from
various types of racists."
--Haaretz commentator Oudeh Basharat writes about the how the so-called "Basic Law: Jewish Nation State"
boils down to being anti-Arab.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday August 25, 2013
Quote of the day:
"There's more than a pinch of irony in the fact that the Israeli regime, so supportive of suppressing the
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, is led by the 'Jewish Brotherhood.'"
--Sefi Rachlevsky writes in Haaretz that Israelis need to let go of racist talk of the "nature" of Arabs and instead "see to the cultural
circumstances, to expand the humanity of each person to include as many as possible."**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, August 23, 2013
Number of the day:
16 million.
Amount of shekels (=$4.5 million) the state will spend on developing a national park in the midst of the Arab E. Jerusalem neighborhood of
Silwan, known by some Jews as Ir David, the City of David.**
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