APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday January 8, 2020
Number of the day:
Listen to the Americans for Peace Now briefing call
from Tuesday, January 7 with strategic affairs expert Yossi Alpher, on
what Qassim Suleimani’s assassination means for Israel and the Middle East.
Yossi Alpher, an independent security analyst, is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with Israel’s Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. He is the author of Hard Questions Tough Answers, APN’s weekly analysis of Israeli and Middle Eastern strategic affairs. His brief from this week on the Soleimani issue is HERE.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday January 7, 2020
Quote of the day:
“When Muslims and Jews meet, even outside of the Middle East, they often feel insecure and suspicious.
Even my desire to learn about Jews and Judaism, while living in Gaza, was something I was reluctant to share
with others. And if I had never left, I would never have met Jews or Israelis outside of a military
confrontation. I would always have been scared of them.”
—Mohammed M. writes in Haaretz how being hosted by a Jewish family while participating in a US leadership program that brings Palestinians and Israelis to Washington D.C. to live and work together changed his views.*
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—Mohammed M. writes in Haaretz how being hosted by a Jewish family while participating in a US leadership program that brings Palestinians and Israelis to Washington D.C. to live and work together changed his views.*
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday January 6, 2020
Quote of the day:
"As strange as it sounds to an Israeli ear, the ayatollahs in Tehran are currently more grounded and
more calculating than the president of the United States."
--Yedioth's top political commentator, Nahum Barnea, examines how a rogue state responds to a rogue president.*
You Must Be Kidding:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appointed a man under suspicion of bribery as minister of agriculture.**
--Yedioth's top political commentator, Nahum Barnea, examines how a rogue state responds to a rogue president.*
You Must Be Kidding:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appointed a man under suspicion of bribery as minister of agriculture.**
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Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday January 5, 2020
Quote of the day:
"The assassination of Qassem Soleimani is a rare event that alters reality and renders everything that
happened before it irrelevant. What's required now is almost a complete reassessment of all previously held
assumptions and conventions."
--'Israel Hayom' military analyst, Yoav Limor, in his analysis of the ramifications of the assassination of Iran's #2, Qassem Soleimani.*
You Must Be Kidding:
Ghislaine Maxwell, the British woman who has been accused of recruiting underage girls in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal, has reportedly found refuge in Israel.**
--'Israel Hayom' military analyst, Yoav Limor, in his analysis of the ramifications of the assassination of Iran's #2, Qassem Soleimani.*
You Must Be Kidding:
Ghislaine Maxwell, the British woman who has been accused of recruiting underage girls in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal, has reportedly found refuge in Israel.**
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You may have missed it.
While most Americans were recovering from Christmas and American Jews were digesting Chinese food, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was vowing to his base that he would “deliver an American recognition of applying our sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the north of the Dead Sea,” followed by “delivering an American recognition of applying our sovereignty over all the settlements in Judea and Samaria. All, bar-none.”
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday January 2, 2020
Quote of the day:
"It is Netanyahu’s right to fight the indictments against him. It is his right to ask for immunity. But he
has no right to destroy the remainder of the trust of the citizens of the state in its institutions. Without trust
there is no law, no institutions, no army, no state."
--Top Yedioth political commentator, Nahum Barnea, writes about the accusations made by Israeli
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in his speech about why he requested immunity from trial.*
Menachem Mautner is a Professor of Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence at the Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law. In this episode he explains why he wrote two recently-published books that are unrelated to his academic expertise: a dystopian novel that predicts the devastation that Mautner believes will lead to Middle East peace, and a book analyzing the crisis of Israeli liberalism.