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3. On the Record
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 22, 2018
Quote of the Day #1:
“What was once whispered about behind closed doors, people are no longer ashamed to say out in the
open.”
--Raghad Jaraisy, director of Arab minority rights at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, said incidents of racism against Arab citizens of Israel have changed in Israeli society - now even politicians aren’t ashamed to make racist statements against Arabs.
Quote of the Day #2:
"Dozens of families in Israel still do not know that their children will be buried during the summer...In the course of the upcoming war in the south our sons and daughters will die for nothing, but from the point of view of the right-wing government, Hamas is a gift that does not stop giving. On one side is desperation, on the other side is folly."
--Maariv senior political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes about the war he fears Israel will have against Gaza.
--Raghad Jaraisy, director of Arab minority rights at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, said incidents of racism against Arab citizens of Israel have changed in Israeli society - now even politicians aren’t ashamed to make racist statements against Arabs.
Quote of the Day #2:
"Dozens of families in Israel still do not know that their children will be buried during the summer...In the course of the upcoming war in the south our sons and daughters will die for nothing, but from the point of view of the right-wing government, Hamas is a gift that does not stop giving. On one side is desperation, on the other side is folly."
--Maariv senior political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes about the war he fears Israel will have against Gaza.
The Trump administration yesterday dealt another blow to America’s leadership on the global stage and to the US commitment to multilateralism by withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
One of the chief reasons given for the US decision to withdraw is the UNHRC’s treatment of Israel. This is the second time the Trump Administration has announced it will pull the US out of a UN body over alleged anti-Israel bias. The first was the US withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), announced last year. The pullout fits a broader Trump administration pattern of abandoning multilateralism for an America First approach, evident also in its exit from the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday June 21, 2018
Quote of the day:
"We must resolves this, but not with means of endless warfare and power."
--Ahuva Ilani, a Jewish Israeli residing in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip, was among many in the area who called for a political solution to the rockets from Gaza.*
You Must Be Kidding:
“Where is Ali? Ali’s dead. Ali’s on the grill.”
--In front of police officers outside the courthouse where the Jewish murder suspects were on trial, far-right-wing Jewish activists taunted the uncle and grandfather of Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsheh, whom Jewish terrorists murdered along with his mother and father in the 2015 West Bank arson attack.**
--Ahuva Ilani, a Jewish Israeli residing in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip, was among many in the area who called for a political solution to the rockets from Gaza.*
You Must Be Kidding:
“Where is Ali? Ali’s dead. Ali’s on the grill.”
--In front of police officers outside the courthouse where the Jewish murder suspects were on trial, far-right-wing Jewish activists taunted the uncle and grandfather of Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsheh, whom Jewish terrorists murdered along with his mother and father in the 2015 West Bank arson attack.**
In this episode, the second in a series about the collective
emotional state of the Gaza Strip’s population, APN’s Debra Shushan and Ori Nir speak with Dr. Brian Barber, a
psychologist, who in the past quarter of a century has been studying the psyche of the Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza.
Barber is a professor of child and family studies and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Conflict at the University of Tennessee, from which he recently retired. He is now a scholar at the New America Foundation and the Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington, DC.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday June 20, 2018
Quote of the day:
“From the start I had no confidence that the judicial system in Israel would do us justice. Now they’re
trying everything possible to clear the accused, and if that happens this entire case comes to
nothing.”
--Hussein Dawabsheh, grandfather of Ali Dawabsheh, the only survivor of the Jewish terror attack on Ali's home in 2015. Yesterday the court ruled that some of the key confessions from the murderers were inadmissible.*
You Must Be Kidding:
“I only know that I live beyond the Green Line."
--Student A., a settler, is the only person in a university class taught by Haaretz journalist Zvi Bar'el, who could explain the meaning of the term “Green Line,” Israel’s pre-1967 border. But A. didn't know that the Green Line is a border, writes Bar'el, nor do most of the hundreds of Israeli students to whom he has taught about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.**
--Hussein Dawabsheh, grandfather of Ali Dawabsheh, the only survivor of the Jewish terror attack on Ali's home in 2015. Yesterday the court ruled that some of the key confessions from the murderers were inadmissible.*
You Must Be Kidding:
“I only know that I live beyond the Green Line."
--Student A., a settler, is the only person in a university class taught by Haaretz journalist Zvi Bar'el, who could explain the meaning of the term “Green Line,” Israel’s pre-1967 border. But A. didn't know that the Green Line is a border, writes Bar'el, nor do most of the hundreds of Israeli students to whom he has taught about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.**
Breaking News:
Major Gaza Escalation: 45 Rockets Fired at Israel, IDF Strikes 25 Hamas Targets
Army says warning shot fired at incendiary balloon launchers in Gaza. Seven rockets intercepted, one lands near Israeli kindergarten. (Haaretz+, Ynet and Israel Hayom)
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday June 19, 2018
Quote of the day:
"Apparently, the special measures used against the suspects were not more extreme than those used
against Arab suspects in terrorism who were convicted following their confessions - which were allowed by the
court."
--Maariv's Avishai Greenzweig gives an in-depth look at the dramatic question the court faces today about the admissibility of confessions made by two Jewish terrorists in the arson murders of the Dawabsheh family.**
--Maariv's Avishai Greenzweig gives an in-depth look at the dramatic question the court faces today about the admissibility of confessions made by two Jewish terrorists in the arson murders of the Dawabsheh family.**
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 week, Alpher discusses Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt's trip to the Middle East, during which they will not meet with the Palestinian leadership or release an “ultimate deal” peace plan; whether Israel, the Palestinians, and other Arabs should be pleased or concerned with Trump’s performance in Singapore; whether bringing investments to Gaza’s two million inhabitants will be good for peace; Hamas and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas's anti-Semitic gospel; Netanyahu's meeting in Amman with Jordan’s King Abdullah II; how tuned in the Israeli public is to all this maneuvering; and current events in Gaza.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday June 18, 2018
Quote of the day:
"I feel so sorry for the policemen. If only they had been attacked by Arabs rather than by Jewish
settlers, everything could have been so different. If it were Arabs, the orders would have allowed the use of
counter-violence and even live fire, the policemen would have been required to use counter-violence and attack
the rioters, and the government would have stood by them and awarded citations to those fighting
terror."
--Yariv Oppenheimer writes in Yedioth about Israeli hypocrisy.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"They told me I couldn't enter, that I could only enter after 6 P.M. because I am Bedouin."
--Bedouin citizens of Israel revealed that public pool in the south has separate swim times for Bedouin, while the rest of the time the pool is officially open only to members, although Jewish citizens who don’t have membership do enter with payment at the entrance.**
--Yariv Oppenheimer writes in Yedioth about Israeli hypocrisy.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"They told me I couldn't enter, that I could only enter after 6 P.M. because I am Bedouin."
--Bedouin citizens of Israel revealed that public pool in the south has separate swim times for Bedouin, while the rest of the time the pool is officially open only to members, although Jewish citizens who don’t have membership do enter with payment at the entrance.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday June 17, 2018
Quote of the day:
"How is the use of money to advance an ideology different from avoiding the use of money to oppose an
ideology? Why is the funding of advocacy in order to advance an annexation initiative in area of Judea and
Samaria legal, but making things economically difficult for settlements is not legal?"
--Yedioth commentator, Yaron London, explains Israeli hypocrisy in the legislative bill that calls for punishing people who boycott Israel or Israeli settlements.*
--Yedioth commentator, Yaron London, explains Israeli hypocrisy in the legislative bill that calls for punishing people who boycott Israel or Israeli settlements.*