APN's Yitzhak Rabin 25-Year Memorial Event - live-streamed on October 20,
will include both past and current leaders of Peace Now in Israel.
(pictured clockwise starting top left corner): Shaqued Morag, Executive Director, Janet Aviad, Founder and Chairwoman Emeritus of the Board, Hagit Ofran, Settlement Watch Co-Director, and Yariv Oppenheimer, former Executive Director.
Register to attend and join host Mandy Patinkin and all the special guests for this event.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday October 6, 2020
Headline of the day:“The Minister of the Immediate Environment”
-- The headline in 'The Marker,' referring to Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel, who violated
corona guidelines that prohibit travel farther than 1 kilometer from home and prohibiting visiting people outside
the home. She traveled 150 kilometers to visit her in-laws in Tiberias.*
You Must Be Kidding:
“While Israel reels from its second lockdown and economic distress, Netanyahu is promoting construction in
isolated settlements that Israel will have to evacuate."
--Peace Now responds to Israel's plan to advance next week at least
4,430 settlement units in the Palestinian Territories.*
APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday October 5, 2020
Quote of the day:“These weren’t American soldiers, for example, who plundered
the Vietnamese, or Germans thousands of kilometers from home. These were civilians who looted from their neighbors
across the street. I don’t mean that they necessarily knew Ahmed or Noor whose property they stole, but that the
neighbors were part of a shared social civil fabric."
—In a new book, historian Adam Raz reveals the phenomenon of Jews plundering the property of their Arab neighbors
en masse in 1948. Raz said the subject was meaningful because it exerted, and continues to exert, considerable
influence on the relations between the two people who share this land.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"If Biden wins we will see a policy shift that, in my personal opinion, will be wrong and will be bad for
the region, including for Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and
Kuwait."
--Speaking to an Emirati newspaper, top US 'diplomat' to Israel, Ambassador David Friedman, publicly expressed his
view of who should win the 2020 US Presidential election.**
1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
2. Hearings &
Markups
3. On the Record
Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
The Settlers' Billionaire Backer, an
investigative documentary by BBC News Arabic, revolves around the discovery that Russian oligarch,
Roman Abramovich, granted Israeli citizenship in 2018, controls companies that have donated $100 million to
Elad, an Israeli settler organization that operates in occupied East Jerusalem.
Watch the film on your own
*Please note we will send you a link to watch the film at this time. The film will not be available to
watch later.
Join us for a post-film discussion with investigative journalist Uri Blau, BBC News Arabic Senior Producer Rosie Garthwaite, and the New Israel Fund's VP for Public Engagement Libby Lenkinski.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday October 1, 2020
Quote of the day:"The Yom Kippur Selichot (repentance prayers) has expired, but
it is not too late to apologize to the Palestinians. As human beings and as a people."
—Maariv commentator Ran Edelist writes that it's unlikely that all 3,532 Palestinians killed by Israeli
military and security forces between 2009 and 2020, including 694 minors and 324 women, were ticking time bombs.*
On October 1, both the Senate and the House of Representatives introduced resolutions (S. Res. 745 / H. Res. 1173) honoring the life, legacy, and example of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 25th anniversary of his assassination.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday September 30, 2020
Quote of the day:"There is the indicted Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu and there is the
Prime Minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu. It is not the same thing. If you mix things up and use your
governmental power as prime minister to influence you criminally, then it begins to be a serious
problem.”
—In a leaked tape recording, Attorney General Avichai Mendelblitt is heard saying that Netanyahu could be
incapacitated as prime minister due to a conflict of interests.*
APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday September 29, 2020
Quote of the day:
"Yes, she’s got a huge following, and it would have been nice to enlist her to the cause of peace, but if
she’s not interested, or not brave enough to stand up to the BDS crowd, there are many other emerging political
leaders who’d be happy to take the slot she was offered."
--Haaretz's Washington correspondent, Amir Tibon, writes about US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's
pull-out from Americans for Peace Now's October 20th virtual event commemorating 25 years since the
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered because of his support for a two-state solution.*