APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday April 07, 2014
Quote of the day:
"This will put Shfaram and the rest of the communities on the map."
--Shfaram mayor Amin Anabtawi is thrilled that Israel will finally give his town and other Arab and Druze towns in
Israel street names and house numbers and street signs.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday April 06, 2014
Quote of the day:
"I came to be with them, to condemn the acts and actions (of) terrorists who try to harm the innocent. We
will not let this carry on."
--Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich visited the Arab village of Gush Halav, Jish, in the Western
Galilee, where the tires of 40 cars were punctured and hate graffiti was sprayed, ostensibly by Jewish citizens.**
Time.com (AP story), 2 April, 2014
Peace Now: Israel to build more in East Jerusalem
http://time.com/46548/watchdog-israel-moving-forward-with-east-jerusalem-construction/
Associated Press, 2 April 2014
Peace Now: Israeli commitment to "restrain" settlement planning would be meaningless because so much
construction is under way
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/Palestinians-We-don-t-want-Kerry-mission-to-fail-5369204.php
AFP, 1 April 2014
Peace Now: Israeli government reissues tenders for East Jerusalem settler homes
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140401/israel-reissues-tenders-e-jerusalem-settler-homes
Voice of Russia (AFP story), 1 April, 2014
Israel reissues tenders for East Jerusalem settler homes
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_01/Israel-reissues-tenders-for-E-Jerusalem-settler-homes-NGO-3385/
Huffington Post, 31 March, 2014
ATFP Youth Outreach Coordinator writes about her organization's partnership with APN
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tala-haikal/youth-factor-the-missing-_b_5064632.html
Jerusalem Post, 31 March 2014
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer: Livni and Lapid parties will have to leave coalition if negotiations
fail
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Left-vows-Well-pressure-Livni-to-quit-if-talks-fail-346982
Haaretz, 30 March, 2014
APN's Lara Friedman op-ed: What Israeli-Palestinian mutual recognition really means
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.582833
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday April 04, 2014
Quote of the day:
"Our goal now is to stop everything - we are hardening our positions and then we will start from the
beginning."
--An Israeli official tells Yedioth that Israel's strategy is sanctions against the Palestinians in order to get
them to stop their UN bids - and get back to the negotiating table.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday April 03, 2014
Quote of the day:
“Although Netanyahu is genuinely concerned about isolation and demography, he believes that the current
status quo is the best option.”
--Molad director Avner Inbar shares the view held by many at a conference of security and foreign policy experts
this week in Jerusalem.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday April 02, 2014
Number of the day:
708.
Number of tenders Israel issued yesterday for housing units over the Green Line, while it still
thought it had a deal to get the peace talks extended and the spy, Jonathan Pollard, released. But then it got a
surprise.**
Haaretz - March 24, 2014
APN's Ori Nir op-ed: Two-staters, unite behind Kerry
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.581723
Each year at Passover, Jews read this line in the haggadah, "In every generation a person is obligated to see themselves as if they had left Egypt." Why? Because each of us should understand that in our generation, just as in our ancestors' generation, the status quo is not inevitable. Societies founded on inequality, on domination of others, on ruling those who do not wish to be ruled cannot, in the arc of history, last. In every generation there is a wrong to be righted. Today, it is in our hands to right it.
This year, you can add flavor to your seder by sharing this thoughtful reflection by Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb. Rabbi Dobb, who has written previously for Americans for Peace Now, has graciously contributed our 13th haggadah insert. In it, he asks us to make peace with the idea of limits.
Since 2001, Americans for Peace Now has asked rabbis from the extended APN family to contribute reflections on the haggada: that story which has for centuries been understood as the archetype of liberation. Many of us have made these reflections a permanent part of our seder - we hope you will, too. You can find them here.
May we all enjoy a sweet and liberating Passover,
Debra DeLee
President and CEO,
Americans for Peace Now
Submitted by Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb (2014)
To be read after the meal, just before the search for the afikomen. (Tzafun)