APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday September 23, 2019
Quotes of the day:
“The endorsement by the Joint Arab List of a Zionist party to form a government in Israel is a
historic, formative and exciting event. Nothing less.”
—Maariv’s top (and conservative) political commentator, Ben Caspit, on the recommendation by the Arab Joint List for Benny Gantz to form the next government.*
"Of all the parties that came to the President yesterday, representatives of the Joint List were the most practical and restrained. The demands they made were reasonable: war on crime and homicides, ending demolition of houses, repealing laws that discriminate against their constituents. Netanyahu's response came quickly: The traitor Gantz conspired with the Arabs to destroy us.”
—Yedioth’s top political commentator, Nahum Barnea, on the recommendation by the Arab Joint List for Benny Gantz to form the next government.**
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—Maariv’s top (and conservative) political commentator, Ben Caspit, on the recommendation by the Arab Joint List for Benny Gantz to form the next government.*
"Of all the parties that came to the President yesterday, representatives of the Joint List were the most practical and restrained. The demands they made were reasonable: war on crime and homicides, ending demolition of houses, repealing laws that discriminate against their constituents. Netanyahu's response came quickly: The traitor Gantz conspired with the Arabs to destroy us.”
—Yedioth’s top political commentator, Nahum Barnea, on the recommendation by the Arab Joint List for Benny Gantz to form the next government.**
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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 September 22, 2019
Quote of the day:
"We must recover from the fantasy of subtracting the ultra-Orthodox and/or Arabs from Israel, and
replace it with a vision of partnership. This isn’t idealism, it’s realpolitik. The only way to get out of the
political dead end is to break the dichotomy at its foundation. If the right says no to the Arabs and the left
says no to the Haredim, Gantz must say yes to both of them."
--Haaretz+ commentator Carolina Landsmann on forming a government.*
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--Haaretz+ commentator Carolina Landsmann on forming a government.*
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Debra Shushan, APN Policy and Government Releations Director, appeared on CGTN on Thursday, September 19 to provide analysis on the results of the Israeli election.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday September 19, 2019
Quote of the day #1:
"I suggest you make an exit now. This is the 90th minute. Your hourglass is almost out. These are the
last moments where (Attorney General) Mendelblitt can make you a reasonable deal. If you don't do it now, you
are taking a big gamble. Remember Olmert. He, too, thought it would not happen to him, but he went to Maasiyahu
(prison). Do you want to go to Maasiyahu, Bibi? Sure, you'll have some quiet there, finally. I understand. But
I don't think you’ll like the scent of Lysol or the kitchen duties. There is no sushi there, and the pasta
isn’t great."
--Maariv's political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes what he thinks Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's deceased personal lawyer and friend would have advised Netanyahu following his election loss and the upcoming hearing on his corruption cases.*
Quote of the day #2:
"The racism of the politicians kills us - we learned to live together, Arabs and Jews."
--Aida Husari, 52, from Shfaram town, who donated her kidney to a Jewish man. The Jewish man's original donor donated to Husari's sister-in-law.*
--Maariv's political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes what he thinks Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's deceased personal lawyer and friend would have advised Netanyahu following his election loss and the upcoming hearing on his corruption cases.*
Quote of the day #2:
"The racism of the politicians kills us - we learned to live together, Arabs and Jews."
--Aida Husari, 52, from Shfaram town, who donated her kidney to a Jewish man. The Jewish man's original donor donated to Husari's sister-in-law.*
Breaking News:
Israel Election Results: Gantz Widens Lead Over Netanyahu as 97% of Vote Counted
Netanyahu's bloc, comprised of right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties, currently stands at 55 seats. The center-left bloc has 57 seats. (Haaretz+ and Ynet)
Israel Election Results: Netanyahu Says He Wants Unity Government; Gantz: I Will Lead It
Kahol Lavan MKs say they will sit with Netanyahu ■ Shaked says she isn't sure she will join right-wing bloc ■ Gantz widens edge over Netanyahu as 98% of vote counted. (Haaretz+ and Ynet)
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday September 18, 2019
Quote of the day:
"Listen Abu Yair, incitement has a price."
--Following a high turnout of Arab voters and 12 seats for his party, Ayman Odeh, leader of the mostly Arab Joint List, rebuked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the father of Yair, for all his election campaign incitement against Arab citizens.**
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--Following a high turnout of Arab voters and 12 seats for his party, Ayman Odeh, leader of the mostly Arab Joint List, rebuked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the father of Yair, for all his election campaign incitement against Arab citizens.**
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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.
This piece by Shaqued Morag, Executive Director of Peace Now, first appeared as a Ha'aretz article and APN has turned into a brochure.
I grew up in an era when peace was not a fantasy but an option. When I was nine, the first Oslo agreement was signed with the Palestinians. That year, the song that won Israel’s Festigal, the children’s song festival, was titled “Peace is a Useful Word.” A year later, Yitzhak Rabin signed the peace agreement with Jordan. It was clear that this was what prime ministers were supposed to do. When I was 11, the Oslo II agreement was signed. Shortly thereafter, Rabin was assassinated. At my school in Kfar Malal, they continued to educate for peace. We came every year to Rabin Square for the memorial, welcomed the withdrawal from Lebanon and later from the Gaza Strip, and continued to believe in peace. Because there is no other way.
But what was known to every child in the 1990s, that occupation is temporary, and that peace should be sought, has become much less clear over the years. While “Candlelight Youth” of 1994 grew up to be a high-tech generation, the settlers’ Hilltop Youth settled in Israeli positions of power to make the temporary as permanent as possible. Illegal outposts began to pop up deep in the West Bank, in areas that were not supposed to be part of Israel after the peace agreement. Today, their number exceeds 100. What is being sold to us as a “political deadlock” is actually a very dynamic situation, where facts are set on the ground by a minority that does not wait for Israeli citizens’ approval.