APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday January 28, 2020
Quote of the day:
“If you look at the dictionary, you'll understand (the Palestinian entity laid out in the Trump plan)
isn't the definition of a state. That is not what the plan allows, and so the resistance from the Right and the
rabbis is a mistake."
--Unnamed 'senior US official' tells 'Israel Hayom' that right-wing does not have to be concerned that the Trump plan gives Palestinians a state.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"Over the course of the past decade, the likelihood of separation has diminished. The right-wing is creating the reality of one large, binational state…Another neighborhood and another outpost - and the binational state, which will be non-Jewish and non-democratic, is forming. So maybe, who knows, this is the last opportunity the right-wing can be a part of. So the choice is not between the Clinton outline, the Geneva Initiative or the John Kerry draft in 2014 and the Trump deal. The choice is between a bi-national state and the Trump deal."
--Yedioth's right-wing commentator Ben-Dror Yemini says the threat of the illegal expansion of the settlement enterprise on the side of Israel should be reason enough to convince the Zionist left-wing leaders to accept the Trump plan.*
--Unnamed 'senior US official' tells 'Israel Hayom' that right-wing does not have to be concerned that the Trump plan gives Palestinians a state.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"Over the course of the past decade, the likelihood of separation has diminished. The right-wing is creating the reality of one large, binational state…Another neighborhood and another outpost - and the binational state, which will be non-Jewish and non-democratic, is forming. So maybe, who knows, this is the last opportunity the right-wing can be a part of. So the choice is not between the Clinton outline, the Geneva Initiative or the John Kerry draft in 2014 and the Trump deal. The choice is between a bi-national state and the Trump deal."
--Yedioth's right-wing commentator Ben-Dror Yemini says the threat of the illegal expansion of the settlement enterprise on the side of Israel should be reason enough to convince the Zionist left-wing leaders to accept the Trump plan.*
Breaking News:
Netanyahu Withdraws Request for Immunity From Prosecution in Corruption Cases, Indictments Filed in Court Against Him (Haaretz+, Israel Hayom and Ynet)
Front Page:
Last Friday, Palestinian community organizer and activist Ali
Abu Awwad gave a stirring speech at an APN cosponsored event held at the Middle East Institute. In
particular, Abu Awwad described his own life story, including being raised by an activist mother who was beaten
and brutalized by Israeli security forces, and participating in the First Intifada, as a desperate and angry boy
picking up stones to confront an overwhelming military force.
In January 2020, there was a big bruhaha when a Jeopardy
contestant said on the gameshow that the Church of the Nativity was located in Israel. What’s wrong with that?
The Church of the Nativity is in Bethlehem, a town that came under Israeli rule in 1967 and is closely
intertwined with Jewish history since biblical times.