News Nosh 9.8.17

by APN 09/08/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 8, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
“It’s like Holocaust deniers, it’s the same thing. They shout about Holocaust deniers in Iran, but they deny more than Holocaust deniers."
--Former chief rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Amar, compared Holocaust deniers and Reform Jews and concluded Reform Jews were worse because they reject traditional Jewish law.
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News Nosh 9.7.17

by APN 09/07/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday September 7, 2017
 
Quote of the Day #1:
“Because there are things permitted to write only in Hebrew, like, for example, ‘Death to Arabs. Burn them all. Give it to them.’ ‘It’s okay, they’re only trolls on Facebook.’ But if you write the word ‘resist’ in Arabic, it’s incitement and subversion against the government.”
—Satirist Assaf Harel looks at claims by Culture Minister Miri Regev that a solidarity event for Dareen Tatour - an Arab-Israeli poet who has been charged with incitement and has been under house arrest for two years - was in fact "a stage for terrorism."*

Quote of the Day #2:
"The house on Kunder Street is the Zionist project’s model apartment, because here you get it all in a refined, condensed form. Here Israel says, without stammering: Entrance for Jews only. Exit for Arabs. Not only the right of return, but the right of property is also exclusively for Jews. A Jew who lost his home in 1948 will have his house returned to him with all respect. A Palestinian – and there were hundreds of thousands of them – has lost it forever. "
--Haaretz+'s GIdeon Levy writes about the meaning of the eviction this week of the Palestinian Shamasneh family from a pre-'48 Jewish-owned home, where they lived for 53 years as renters.**
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News Nosh 9.6.17

by APN 09/06/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday September 6, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“She is a judge who falls in the center of the scale between judicial activism and legal restraint. She is very rooted in the political-social experience and aware of the uproar that continuously surrounds the High Court. She is very aware of the value of the separation of powers, the need for the government to rule and the Knesset to be sovereign. But she will always fight for the rights of the little guy if those institutions harm him. She is considered a judge who is sensitive to the rights of accused and arrested…”
—Israeli judicial sources share with Yedioth the characteristics of the new High Court Chief Justice, Esther Hayut, and also note that she is very security-minded.*
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APN Security Validator - Tamir Pardo, Former Mossad Director

by APN 09/06/17
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PAST ACTION: Thank Reps. Price and Connolly for Leading the Congressional Push for a Two-State Solution

by APN 09/05/17
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Price & Connolly

Update: this action, now closed, ran in September 2017.  

Last week, any remaining pretense of US leadership in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was dealt a serious blow when State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert declined to recommit the United States to a two-state solution to the conflict. Strikingly, Nauert rejected the vision articulated by successive US administrations since 2002, Republican and Democratic, by suggesting that endorsing a two-state solution would "bias one side over the other."

Two members of Congress, David Price (D-NC) and Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), released a statement in response calling on the Trump Administration to "stop equivocating on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" and imploring it to "reaffirm the United State' support for a viable, lasting, and mutually-agreed upon two-state solution and to make this support clear in public and private statements."

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Hard Questions, Tough Answers (9.5.17) - The UN and the Israel-Arab conflict

by APN 09/05/17
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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 week, Alpher discusses UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres's statement during his visit to Ramallah that there is “no plan B to the two-state solution"; examples of "plan B's"; Guterres's statement that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is one of the most dramatic he has seen, and that the punitive siege should be removed; whether the new language in UNIFIL's renewed mandate will make a difference as the clock ticks on conflict between Israel and Iran/Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and Syria.  

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News Nosh 9.5.17

by APN 09/05/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday September 5, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"Israel Hayom newspaper was set up to serve Netanyahu, so when he called the editor to dictate the headlines, he certainly did not think there was anything wrong with that. The newspaper was at his disposal.”
—Former minister of justice Meir Sheetrit, who was in the Likud for 32 years, tells Maariv after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's phone calls logs were revealed and juxtaposed with headlines.**
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News Nosh 9.4.17

by APN 09/04/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday September 4, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"As has already been said many times: If he knew, it's serious. If he did not know, it is even more serious, because it indicates a serious management failure."
--Maariv's senior political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's claim that he was not aware of any corruption in the acquisition of three submarines that the security establishment did not even want, despite the fact that the police have arrested or questioned: two of Netanyahu's former bureau chiefs, a former head of the National Security Council whom Netanyahu appointed and Netanyahu's personal lawyer and cousin.*
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News Nosh 9.3.17

by APN 09/03/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday September 3, 2017
 
Quote of the Day #1:
"The main difference is that we are making the story about the people who live in the country and not about the country itself.”
--Shirley Ramon, head of Educational Authority in Tel-Aviv Municipality, explains why the city is rejecting the Education Ministry's 'Israeli Journey' of trips for pupils for its own secular journey.*

Quote of the Day #2:
“I recently heard that among the Likud values there is a new value called ‘loyalty to the leader.’ I hear this from the Likud leadership. I was not  aware of such a value… I think it is a very grave development, and utterly ridiculous nonsense.”
--Maverick Likud MK Benny Begin, son of legendary Likud prime minister Menahem Begin, derided what he described as a growing trend in his party in which members are expected to express personal loyalty to faction leader Benjamin Netanyahu.**
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News Nosh 9.1.17

by APN 09/01/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 1, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“Try not to come with prejudices. Prejudices are boring.”
—President of Israel Reuven Rivlin in an Op-Ed in Yedioth to Israeli children on their first day of school.

You Must Be Kidding: 
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu claimed on Facebook that it’s normal for a politician to speak 234 times in three years with the editor-in-chief of a major newspaper.
Former prime minister Ehud Barak responded on Twitter:
"Summary of conversations [with newspaper publishers and editors] from 20 years in politics in all positions: [Haaretz publisher] Amos Schocken - 1. [Yedioth publisher] Noni Moses - 3. With [Israel Hayom editor-in-chief] Amos Regev - 3, usually [to talk] about Mahler, [We are] two fans.”
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