As we all know, a picture is worth a thousand words. This is our aim: to make people think and to act for peace.
This week, we bring you a new cartoon, regarding the formation of Israel's government: “A
Bird-in-Hand”
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday March 31, 2015
Quote of the day:
"Land Day symbolizes more than anything the exclusion, complacency, and discrimination against the Arab
minority, which will continue to fight for its basic rights."
--MK Ahmed Tibi of the Joint List speaking at the quiet marking of Land Day in Rahat.**
--MK Ahmed Tibi of the Joint List speaking at the quiet marking of Land Day in Rahat.**
The essence of Passover is a promise for a better future through the transformation of an entire people from slavery to freedom. This idea has sustained us, the Jewish people, for centuries.
In the wake of Israel’s recent elections we must find a way to cope with the policies of Israel’s re-elected prime minister which offer us little promise and hope.
This week, Alpher discusses how significant is it that Saudi Arabia has put together a ten-nation Sunni coalition to fight Iran-backed Zaidi-Shiite forces in Yemen; how does one explain Saudi and Egyptian alarm, given that Yemen is a poor, dysfunctional backwater parts of which are virtually unconquerable due to geography; what is unusual about the participation of Turkey, Qatar and Sudan in the Saudi-led coalition; if a joint Arab army is a serious proposition; what the Saudi-led war effort has accomplished thus far and what strategic challenges remain; if a Saudi-Iranian proxy war could spread elsewhere in the Middle East; if there is really solid evidence of Iranian participation on the side of the Houthis in Yemen; the Israeli angle to the Yemen struggle; and if there is a Palestinian angle.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday March 30, 2015
Quote of the day:
"After scaring us for a generation over the final catastrophe that will be here when that happens, here
it is happening, and at that very second he will have to start calming us down. Otherwise, he will remain here
alone. Let's see if he is as good at calming, as he is at terrifying."
--Maariv's political commentator Ben Caspit writes about what Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu can do the day after an Iran nuclear agreement is signed.**
--Maariv's political commentator Ben Caspit writes about what Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu can do the day after an Iran nuclear agreement is signed.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday March 29, 2015
Quote of the day:
"However, within the framework of the maneuvers – and with no immediate security need – the Palestinian
residents become extras who are not asked whether they want to take part in the dress rehearsal, and receive no
warning of what is about to take place."
--Haaretz+ military affairs analyst Amos Harel accompanies IDF soldiers on a training maneuver in a Palestinian village.**
--Haaretz+ military affairs analyst Amos Harel accompanies IDF soldiers on a training maneuver in a Palestinian village.**
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
Sunday, March 29 at 2:00 PM
Rabbi Alana Suskin spoke about the prospects for peace following Israel's elections, the work of Peace Now in Israel and what the challenges are at this time, and what, as American Jews, our role can be in helping Israel achieve peace and security with her neighbors
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday March 27, 2015
Quote of the day:
"I frankly do not know if it is already too late."
--Outgoing Middle East Envoy Robert Serry calls on the UN Security Council to intervene to restart
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations for a two-state solution.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday March 26, 2015
Quote of the day:
"He who fears the votes in the ballot boxes will end up with stones thrown in the
streets."
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin gave another jab at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the latter's 'Arabs are voting in droves' statement on Election Day.**
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin gave another jab at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the latter's 'Arabs are voting in droves' statement on Election Day.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday March 25, 2015
Quote of the day:
"I don't think that a student can reach deep into the Israeli educational system when 20 percent of the
students have an ethos, a specific story, and he does not know that story."
Former education minister Shay Piron said he supported teaching the Nakba - the Arabic word for "catastrophe," which the Palestinians use to refer to Israel's War of Independence - to all Israeli students.**
Former education minister Shay Piron said he supported teaching the Nakba - the Arabic word for "catastrophe," which the Palestinians use to refer to Israel's War of Independence - to all Israeli students.**