APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday September 9, 2019
You Must Be Kidding
#1:
“I really asked my staff, and they all said that you looked pleasant and gentle and that you are surely
a good dentist but everyone thought that this way, with the head covering, it wouldn’t work for us in the
clinic … even if we would make you appointments and fill the schedule … people wouldn’t want … there would be a
lot of problems with this … We’d have a lot of problems, which wouldn’t be justified, but we’d have problems
with this. So you know, I’m left with the sympathy and the good intentions but I can’t fulfill them … I can’t
fulfill it under these conditions.”
—Director of dental clinic tells Arab dentist who wears a Muslim headscarf why she didn’t get the job. He was fined.*
You Must Be Kidding #2:
"When it comes to the suspects who are in custody, who don't see their family, who are under psychological pressure that is suitable for use by the Shin Bet investigations - we are in trouble. This is how evidence is obtained? Is that the way?"
--Yedioth senior commentator Ben-Dror Yemini argues that the psychological methods used by the Shin Bet interrogators for obtaining testimony (ostensibly from Palestinians) are unsuitable for use not by the Shin Bet - in other words, that Jewish Israelis should not be interrogated the way that Palestinians are by the Shin Bet But he expresses no problem with those methods being used on Palestinians.**
—Director of dental clinic tells Arab dentist who wears a Muslim headscarf why she didn’t get the job. He was fined.*
You Must Be Kidding #2:
"When it comes to the suspects who are in custody, who don't see their family, who are under psychological pressure that is suitable for use by the Shin Bet investigations - we are in trouble. This is how evidence is obtained? Is that the way?"
--Yedioth senior commentator Ben-Dror Yemini argues that the psychological methods used by the Shin Bet interrogators for obtaining testimony (ostensibly from Palestinians) are unsuitable for use not by the Shin Bet - in other words, that Jewish Israelis should not be interrogated the way that Palestinians are by the Shin Bet But he expresses no problem with those methods being used on Palestinians.**
Breaking News:
Iranian militias in Syria launch failed missile strike against Israel after 18 people were killed in an aerial attack by an unidentified aircraft on Iranian targets in Syria near the Iraq border. (Israel Hayom and Ynet)
Front Page:
In this special episode of PeaceCast, APN’s Debra Shushan and Ori
Nir are the interviewees rather than the interviewers on the Bill Press Pod. A co-production.
You may have heard that my good friends Dick and Lois Gunther will be honored by
Americans for Peace Now next week in Los Angeles for their lifetime effort to advance peace between
Israelis and Palestinians.