News Nosh 10.26.15

by APN 10/26/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 26, 2015

 
Quote of the day:
“That finger that pressed the trigger of the gun had many fingers, many fingers that are today in power in the State of Israel.” 
--At a local memorial ceremony marking 20 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Carmiel Mayor Adi Eldar attacked the present government in a ‘direct and unprecedented way,’ wrote Maariv.
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“We wrote a request to (the Defense Ministry to) prevent the rally and it turns out that not only did the rally take place, but you took part in it. The fact that a deputy minister participates in illegal activity, and thereby encourages it, while violating the law, is inconceivable.”
-- Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber wrote in a sharp letter to the Defense Minister after Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Habayit Hayehudi) participated in an illegal demonstration in the West Bank.
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News Nosh 10.25.15

by APN 10/25/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 25, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
  • I hereby resign from the tribe that says killing unarmed people is a form of self defense, whose practitioners are heroes.
  • I hereby resign from the tribe that says: We deserve everything, all the land, and we've got the Book that says so.  
  • I resign from the tribe which says the other guys are monsters, animals, out only for our blood and our land, undeserving and disqualified from having a country of their own.
  • I resign from the tribe that says settlers are not civilians and are fair game for murder. I resign from the tribe that says any Jew, because they're Jewish, deserves to be stabbed.
  • I resign from the tribe that says Death to Arabs, the tribe which posts that hating Arabs is a virtue.
  • I resign from the tribe that says Palestinian kids suspected of throwing rocks should be put to death on the spot.
--From Haaretz+ columnist Bradley Burston’s ‘letter of resignation from the tribe.'
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News Nosh 10.23.15

by APN 10/23/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 23, 2015 
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
"I feel bad. I found myself in an uncomfortable situation, which I am sorry about. I am in a little bit of a poor mental state, but it will be alright."
--Dudu Moyal, who was seen in the video clip throwing a bench on the face of mortally wounded Eritrean Habtoum Zarhoum, said after the court hearing, in which he and three others were released from house arrest. Zarhoum died.
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News Nosh 10.22.15

by APN 10/22/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 22, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"Jews and Arabs, what do we all want at the end of the day? To make a living and advance in life, we want a better future for our children. And we want that the good food that we will serve will transfer that message."
--Fuad Marwan, co-owner of Al-Masraa restaurant in Acco that is holding a 'co-existence dinner' tonight prepared by Jewish and Arab chefs. 
You Must Be Kidding: 
53.5%
--The percentage of religious Israeli Jews who believe the option of carrying out a forced population transfer of Israel’s Muslim population should be brought back to the public discourse. Another 27.5% had no opinion and only 19% opposed, according to a poll that examined religious Jews’ views on Arab citizens of Israel.
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News Nosh 10.21.15

by APN 10/21/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 21, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"I have a great deal of respect for those in uniform who defended themselves and the citizens around them without killing the terrorist..."
--Prof. Asa Kasher, who compiled the IDF ethics code, writes that shooting a terrorist in the head is "immoral and illegal."
You Must Be Kidding: 
"Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews."
--Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells the 37th Zionist Congress in his speech Tuesday.
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News Nosh 10.20.15

by APN 10/20/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 20, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
“You’ll surely portray us a terrorists, but we’re not that. We are just people who want to live in dignity and hope, but not despair."
--A Bedouin youth tells the media from the home of the family of the Beersheva Bedouin attacker.
You Must Be Kidding: 
Arab Israeli Hussein Shakra began pastry school this week and on first day they handed each student a set of knives that she/he is supposed to take to and from school. Panic broke out in the classroom, wrote Shakra on Facebook. ‘How will they let me on the train with these knives,’ one Jewish girl asked.
“You’re the one who’s worried? What am I gonna do!? (yup, I’m the only Arab in the class),” wrote Shakra on Facebook. 
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Peace Now Settlement Watch News Flash: The Abu Nab Family Has Just Been Forcefully Evicted from Its Home in Batan Al-Hawal in Silwan

by APN 10/19/15
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Earlier this morning (19.10) the police has enforced a de-facto curfew in Batan Al-Hawa as it sought to evict the Abu-Nab family from its home in favor of settlers.

The forceful eviction took place just a few minutes ago and the family is now out of its home. A truck, meant  to pick-up the family's belongings, was seen in the area. This is the first time since 2008 that a forceful eviction has taken place.
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October 19, 2015 - The escalation of violence and "Intifada lite?"

by APN 10/19/15
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This week, Alpher discusses whether the new intifada that is apparently developing has any symbolic significance in regard to the 20 year anniversary of the Rabin assassination; is the fact that Netanyahu’s government is building walls and imposing partial closures around Jerusalem’s outlying Arab neighborhoods a kind of re-dividing of Jerusalem and couldn’t this be a potentially positive step toward peace; if it is fair to say that the fear instilled by previous rounds of intifada violence helped usher in rounds of negotiations and Israeli concessions previously, could that happen again this time; the role of the international community; why the initiative attributed to the French to introduce an international police observer force to the Temple Mount appears to be a hastily conceived non-starter; and how to characterize the violence at this point in time.

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News Nosh 10.19.15

by APN 10/19/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 19, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"What kind of message is this meant to convey to young pupils, who are used to seeing Arab workers as part of their usual learning environment and then, during times of tension, they are made to disappear just because they’re Arabs? We must not teach children that every Arab is a threat.”
--Sikkuy’s co-executive directors, Rawnak Natour and Ron Gerlitz, slammed the decision by Israeli municipalities to fire their Arab cleaning workers.
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News Nosh 10.18.15

by APN 10/18/15
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 18, 2015 
 
Quote of the day:
"Why didn't they shoot him in the legs?"
--Family of Shahar Mamoun furious after police shot him dead during a brawl, in what Yedioth called the 'Panic Effect,' whereby Palestinian attackers with knives are shot dead and now Israelis are, too.
You Must Be Kidding: 
One of the soldiers on the bus reportedly told the bus driver that his father was a senior police officer and that he, the soldier, recognized the Arab woman as being a wanted terrorist.
But Biyan Khaled, a young Israeli-Arab woman, is no terrorist and is now demanding 50,000 shekels (about $13,000) compensation from the Egged bus company after being removed from a bus last week when soldiers on board incorrectly suspected her of being a terrorist.
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