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Israeli Nuclear/Security Experts on the Iran Deal (updated regularly!)
Statements by Members of Congress in support of the Iran Deal (updated regularly!)
Statements/letters issued by groups of expert validators (updated regularly!)
Go HERE for APN's Iran Deal Resource Page
This week, Alpher discusses ramifications of the Iran nuclear deal for US-Israel relations, as well as regionally; Israel’s relations with Jordan and Saudi Arabia; how Turkey has exploited the momentum of the Iran nuclear deal; and at this time, two weeks past the conclusion in Vienna of the Iran nuclear agreement with the international community, who is gaining and who is losing in the Middle East.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday July 27, 2015
Quote of the day:
"At first it was strange and scary to write and be in contact with our enemy, but with time, I
discovered that the people in the group are really nice. You, the Iraqi Jews, are actually like our brothers
because you are part of the history of my country and like me you love the country that it was."
-A., an Iraqi woman, who is a member of a special Facebook group where Iraqi-Israelis and Iraqis in Iraq communicate.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 26, 2015
Quote of the day:
“I want to focus on how we lost among the young against a strong and organized right that bequeaths
values of ethnic superiority and contempt for human rights, a media that implants racist, nationalistic
messages, and an educational system that is controlled by a strong right-wing.”
--Meretz chief MK Zehava Gal-On said the left-wing camp must examine why it lost the elections - and even
suggests connecting with other parties.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 24, 2015
Quote of the day:
"It’s good Mr. Iliatov did not require that a judge needed to have served in the Border
Police."
--Arab MK Ahmed Tibi reacts to new MK Robert Iliatov's stated requirement that candidates sing Hatikva to be appointed as judges.
The sub-committee for settlements of the higher planning committee of the military’s Civil Administration met
yesterday to discuss 15 plans, at various planning stages and in different settlements. In total, the committee
discussed plans that regard 1,065 housing units. Of these housing units, the plan approved 541 new housing units,
retroactively legalized 228 existing housing units, and approved the development of infrastructure for a plan that
consists of 296 housing units, while further approval will be needed before construction of the housing units can
begin.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 23, 2015
Quote of the day:
"It was worth it."
--Response by two far right-wing activists to their sentence for setting fire to Yad B'Yad Jewish-Arab school
in Jerusalem.**
We mourn the passing of APN friend Theodore Bikel.
The world renowned stage and film actor and singer was also a leading peace activist for Israel, and was currently serving as Chairman of the Board of Partners for Progressive Israel. He publicly refused to perform in Israeli settlements, and in 2010 led a settlement boycott effort by 120 artists which he wrote about in the Huffington Post's "Legitimizing an Obstacle to Peace"
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 2, 2015
Quote of the day:
“Imagine that we bring before a righteous judge, the stone-throwers, and those who caused them to throw
stones. Who will the judge send to prison? He who demolished the home, seized the land, killed the brother, or
the boy who threw a stone?”
-- Arab MK Jamal Zahalka (Joint List) asks a question during a stormy Knesset debate over harsher sentences for (Palestinian) stone-thowers.
-- Arab MK Jamal Zahalka (Joint List) asks a question during a stormy Knesset debate over harsher sentences for (Palestinian) stone-thowers.