Donald Trump's administration greenlighted a surge in settlement construction and planning and attempted to set in motion Israel's formal annexation of the West Bank by Israel.
Trump's unprecedented departure from decades-long US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has made the two-state solution more difficult to attain and has significantly complicated the efforts of future U.S. administrations to help broker peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday November 9, 2020
Quotes of the day:
"But Trump and Netanyahu have turned their lack of credibility into their art. Both use the phrase “Fake
News" to fend off proven truths. One should not deal with the facts, but only claim that that those telling them
are liberals or leftists."
--Dr. Baruch Leshem, the author of a book about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's political marketing
skills, writes today in Ynet Hebrew that, like with US President Donald Trump, the public may be tired of the
spin.*
"So, yes, thanks to Trump the right-wing should understand that even Israel's greatest friend in the world
is not buying the vision of non-stop settlements that will lead to one country. But according to what was reflected
in the media we became thankless."
-Yedioth's right-wing columnist, Ben-Dror Yemini, writes that even leftists should be thankful to outgoing US
President Donald Trump, despite the things Trump did that leftists oppose.**
APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday November 8, 2020
Quotes of the day:
"Not only has (Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu) just lost his open door to the Oval Office, his
stature has been diminished overnight both on the international stage and at
home. It’s impossible to exaggerate how much street-cred he accrued over four years by being known as the foreign
leader with the closest ties to the president of the United States...It is probably too much to hope for, that
Trump’s defeat in the U.S. will bring also an end to Israeli Trumpism, to the lies, smears, the broken promises and
lack of shame proudly flaunted by his admirers."
--Journalist, commentator and author of "Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu," Anshel Pfeffer
takes a look at the local effects of US President Donald Trump's defeat.*
"Government? Demonstration? Peace? All in one sentence? The only 'peace' people my age have experienced is
the series of diplomatic accords with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan. Accordingly, when we hear a
prime minister say 'peace,' we realize he means an agreement that will let the government sell planes or other
weapons, or repatriate asylum seekers who fled genocide and put their lives back at risk."
—Journalist Lee Yaron writes about the perspective of an Israeli millenial.**
You Must Be Kidding:
“They have almost full control of the press, unions and other segments of the society.”
—Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, on left-wingers in Brazil.
“They took control of almost 100% of the mainstream media and academia. They are brainwashing,
indoctrinating.”
-Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, says of the "most radical left, that represents
maybe 5 or 10% of” Israel.
---Yair Netanyahu and Eduardo Bolsonaro commiserate in the first episode of Yair's new
podcast, “The Yair Netanyahu Show.”**
Americans for Peace Now (APN) congratulates Joseph Biden on his election as
the 46th President of the United States, and Kamala Harris, our nation's next Vice President, and wishes them
success in their pursuit of a more just and responsible foreign policy.
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Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday November 05, 2020
Quote of the day:
"We will probably be in 10th place and will come after North Korea and Iran."
--Former director of IDF Intel, Amos Yadlin, predicts that under a Joseph Biden US presidency, Israel won't be a top
priority.*
APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday November 4, 2020
Quote of the day:
"Trump created a new category of asymmetric negotiations and abolished the façade of the honest American
broker, a false image that the U.S. had always tried hard to maintain. Trump’s rule was Israel first, and only
after that, if he had any time and energy left, the Palestinians...Trump left Israel and the Palestinians with no
diplomatic horizon. He left Israel with no chance to separate from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. And he left it
with the occupation, which has dictated and continues to dictate the country’s character, laws and
culture."
--Journalist Zvi Bar'el writes in an Op-Ed this morning.*
You Must Be Kidding:
Settlers called the Israeli military, which arrived at farmland in the West Bank and detained the
Palestinian landowner and an Israeli human rights volunteer who were documenting the outdoor pool that the settlers
had built on the property of the Palestinian landowner.**
Today, on the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, we at APN honor Rabin’s legacy by continuing to build the movement for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
APN’s President and CEO Hadar Susskind said: “Yitzhak Rabin was a soldier and a general who fought for his country in a time of conflict. But his legacy is that of a man who recognized the legitimate national aspirations of the Palestinian people, who chose peace over war, who chose to extend his hand to those who had been his enemies, and who ultimately lost his life in the pursuit of peace.
As we honor that legacy, we remind supporters of Israeli-Palestinian peace worldwide that the conflict between the two peoples is an existential threat to both, that it must and can be resolved, and that determined leadership such as Rabin’s is necessary for progress toward resolution.
Together with our Israeli colleagues at Israel’s Peace Now movement, APN is determined to help achieve Rabin’s goal of Israeli-Palestinian peace and reconciliation.