APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday March 1, 2020
NOTE: News Nosh will be off tomorrow, Israel Election Day, Monday March 2nd.
You Must Be Kidding:
“Hatred is what unites our camp."
--Natan Eshel, close confidante of Prime Minister and Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu, was secretly recorded explaining how the Likud strategy involved fomenting hatred because the "non-Ashkenazi" Likud supporters "hate everything."***
Quotes of the day:
Front Page:
NOTE: News Nosh will be off tomorrow, Israel Election Day, Monday March 2nd.
You Must Be Kidding:
“Hatred is what unites our camp."
--Natan Eshel, close confidante of Prime Minister and Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu, was secretly recorded explaining how the Likud strategy involved fomenting hatred because the "non-Ashkenazi" Likud supporters "hate everything."***
Quotes of the day:
“And it's important that in the end, after a year in which we asked ourselves 'what do we
disagree on,' we will have to ask ourselves the day after 'what do we agree on.' What connects the
tribes that make up Israeli society? Around what common ideas can we gather? And in order to answer
those questions, we need a leader. And not a campaigner.”
—Author Eshkol Nevo writes in Yedioth why it is important to vote tomorrow not to get Netanyahu reelected.*
“It’s hard to imagine a more bipartisan issue than opposition to the abuse of children. But apparently, to AIPAC, if the children are Palestinian, each of their little bodies is a potential terror cell and their legal and moral rights disappear.”
—Yoana Gonen writes in Haaretz why Senator Bernie Sanders’ announcement that he would not appear at this year’s AIPAC conference because the organization provides a platform “for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights," was justified.**
—Author Eshkol Nevo writes in Yedioth why it is important to vote tomorrow not to get Netanyahu reelected.*
“It’s hard to imagine a more bipartisan issue than opposition to the abuse of children. But apparently, to AIPAC, if the children are Palestinian, each of their little bodies is a potential terror cell and their legal and moral rights disappear.”
—Yoana Gonen writes in Haaretz why Senator Bernie Sanders’ announcement that he would not appear at this year’s AIPAC conference because the organization provides a platform “for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights," was justified.**
Front Page:
Over the past week, Israeli authorities advanced three new
settlement initiatives around East Jerusalem, which would cut it off from the West Bank and deny contiguity to
a future Palestinian state. These initiatives come days before Israel’s national elections and as a
joint Israeli-American committee starts determining the status of West Bank settlements.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) is alarmed at the Israeli
government's advancement of three new settlement initiatives around East Jerusalem, which would deny contiguity
to a future Palestinian state.
