I grew up in a hopeful state. World leaders were welcomed at Ben Gurion Airport by the IDF marching band playing Naomi Shemer’s 1967 optimistic song Machar, (Tomorrow), a military march describing a state living in peace with its neighbors, and rather naively promising, “all this will happen tomorrow, if not today – and if not tomorrow then the day after.”
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday November 27, 2014
Quote of the day:
“What’s new here? We were never first–class citizens. At least now you have said it out loud. I prefer that
they tell us directly and not pretend we live in a democratic country...[where] they are self righteous and say
there are equal rights."
--Sana Jamalia, Israeli-Arab graphic designer who created the "State of Israel, second-class citizen" stamp, in the
wake of the nation-state bill.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday November 26, 2014
Quote of the day:
"The MKs don’t understand what kind of fire they’re setting, and that it’s not right to touch the status
quo."
--Israeli Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino says right-wing visits to Temple Mount are violating status quo and
sparking problems.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday November 25, 2014
Quote of the day:
"Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies."
--Signs held by Jews and Arabs at a junction in the western Galilee Friday as they handed out roses to drivers.**
--Signs held by Jews and Arabs at a junction in the western Galilee Friday as they handed out roses to drivers.**
Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) today released the following statement on extending negotiations
regarding Iran's nuclear quest: The fact that all parties to the current Iran diplomatic effort wish to extend
negotiations underscores the important progress that has been made in talks so far as well as the shared
understanding of the very serious risks failure will entail, for everyone.
This week, Alpher discusses the strategic ramifications of last Tuesday's murderous attack on men praying in a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem - in the Israeli-Palestinian arena, the security sphere, the political arena, and whether here are any additional levels.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday November 24, 2014
Quote of the day:
“The nation-state bill is evidence of a confused government that can’t even decide who is a Jew. It comes on
top of the basic laws that already defined Israel as Jewish and dozens of laws that give excessive rights to
Jews in Israel and throughout the world, while ignoring a fifth of the country’s citizens."
--Jafar Farah, director of the Mossawa Center, the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel, on the nation-state bill the government passed.**
--Jafar Farah, director of the Mossawa Center, the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel, on the nation-state bill the government passed.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday November 23, 2014
Quote of the day:
"It's prohibited to allow non-Jews in."
--Bouncer at pub in Carmiel told Druze young man who tried to enter. The Druze man served in IDF.**
--Bouncer at pub in Carmiel told Druze young man who tried to enter. The Druze man served in IDF.**
Americans for Peace Now, together with eight other
organizations mobilizing in support of a diplomatic solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear
program
invite you to our
Violence, incitement and racist hatred don’t just increasingly plague Israel. Palestinian society is just as sick – and unlike Israel, lacks a leader voicing genuine self-criticism.
The despicable violence, incitement, racism and hatred that are plaguing Israelis and Palestinians these days demonstrate just how sick both societies are - yes, both – and how desperately they need to separate from each other into two independent states.