The following is a timeline of major "Price Tag" attacks (as reported by Israeli sources). It documents a clear escalation in attacks, and the increasing spread of attacks inside the Green Line. Italics indicate so-called "triggers" - events or developments that appear to be linked to subsequent attacks - although as has been noted in the Israeli press, "According to the Shin Bet, the right-wing extremists no longer appear to need a 'trigger' to take action, while the targets of the violence are also widening..." We will update this regularly.
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 the Temple Mount crisis; where we start analyzing this; the Israeli mistakes; the Arab response; where Washington is in all this; and how the Temple Mount crisis might end.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 24, 2017
Quote of the day:
"People told him, 'Why didn't you finish him off?' Going into the house and shooting him in the head is
another case of Elor Azaria. We are not murderers, we are only defenders."
--Rachel Maoz, mother of the soldier who shot through the window and injured the Palestinian who murdered three people, rejected calls that her son should have executed the murderer.*
--Rachel Maoz, mother of the soldier who shot through the window and injured the Palestinian who murdered three people, rejected calls that her son should have executed the murderer.*
Breaking News:
Palestinian stabs Arab Israeli bus driver in Israel, says he 'did it for Al-Aqsa'
32-year-old man stabbed and moderately-to-severely wounded by 21-year-old West Bank Palestinian; victim evacuated for treatment; terrorist apprehended by police. (Ynet and Israel Hayom)
Israeli Embassy guard kills 2 Jordanians while being attacked with screwdriver
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak with Jordan's King Abdullah in bid to avert burgeoning diplomatic crisis • Jordan refuses to allow Israeli Embassy guard, who was attacked by carpenter(s) with screwdriver at an embassy staff apartment, to leave for Israel, demanding to question him. (Israel Hayom, Haaretz)
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 23, 2017
Quote of the day:
“The writing wasn’t on the wall – it was on the table, in every internal discussion, it was in the mouths
of the experts, the long-timers of the Shin Bet and the police, it was also here, on the pages of the
newspaper.”
--Senior Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea writes that the murder Friday night of three Israeli family members in a West Bank settlement could have been avoided had Israel not decided Friday morning to leave the metal detectors in place on the Temple Mount.**
--Senior Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea writes that the murder Friday night of three Israeli family members in a West Bank settlement could have been avoided had Israel not decided Friday morning to leave the metal detectors in place on the Temple Mount.**
Times of Israel: July 17, 2017
"Settlers of Netiv Ha’avot outpost fight looming destruction," Peace Now's Hagit
Ofran: Palestinian landowners will file more petitions to reclaim their land from illegal outpost Derekh Haavot.
US News (Reuters story): July 17, 2017
"Israeli 'Counter-Terrorism Boot Camp' a Tourist Attraction in Occupied West Bank,"
Peace Now criticizes West Bank settlement-based "counter-terrorism boot camp" for tourists.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 21, 2017
Number of the day:
48.
--Percentage of Israelis who think Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is corrupt, according to poll published today in Maariv. Nevertheless, the Likud still leads the Knesset, but drops to 24 mandates, compared to the 30 it received in elections.
--Percentage of Israelis who think Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is corrupt, according to poll published today in Maariv. Nevertheless, the Likud still leads the Knesset, but drops to 24 mandates, compared to the 30 it received in elections.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 20, 2017
Quote of the day:
"(East Jerusalem includes) villages with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Police do not enter them, and neither does the Education Minister."
--The response of MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) following the passing in a first reading of a bill to make it harder to divide Jerusalem for a future Palestinian state. Livni was referring to right-wing MK Naftali Bennett who initially proposed the bill.*
Quote of the day:
"(East Jerusalem includes) villages with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Police do not enter them, and neither does the Education Minister."
--The response of MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) following the passing in a first reading of a bill to make it harder to divide Jerusalem for a future Palestinian state. Livni was referring to right-wing MK Naftali Bennett who initially proposed the bill.*
Alarmed at the flare-up of violence on and around Jerusalem’s Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif, and extremely concerned about a further deterioration, Americans for Peace Now (APN) is calling on the Trump administration to offer its services to help establish security arrangements in this sensitive spot, which would be accepted and respected by all.
Join us for a timely briefing call tomorrow, Thursday, Jul
y 20th, at 11:00 AM, with Debbie Gild-Hayo of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
to discuss current anti-democratic legislation in Israel.
Attorney Debbie Gild-Hayo is the Policy Advocacy Director of ACRI, overseeing the organization’s policy advocacy work in Knesset committees and before leading decision makers and government officials in Israel.
ACRI publishes a Legislative Roundup reviewing controversial Knesset legislation and occasional reports on anti-democratic initiatives in the Knesset. See here.
To join the call, dial 1-951-797-1058 and enter the conference code: 147414. A recording will be available shortly after we conclude the call.
Ephraim Halevy, former Mossad director is featured in APN's series of ads and online publications of Israeli security validators. Go HERE for an archive of past versions featuring the Israelis such as Shabtai Shavit, Yuval Diskin, Yitzhak Rabin, Meir Dagan, Tzipi Livni, Shomo Gazit, Rabbi Michael Melchior, and more....
