News Nosh 9.5.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday September 5, 2019

 
Quotes of the day:
"We won't let them steal the election."
--Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says speaking of his party's attempt to pass a bill to place cameras at polling stations to prevent alleged fake votes in Arab sector.*

"Advancing the bill, even though it has no chance, is meant to keep the narrative of 'Arabs stealing the vote' in the minds of Likud voters. This will get them to go out and vote."
--A source within Likud told Maariv.*

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News Nosh 9.4.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday September 4, 2019
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
"The education minister not only goes beyond his purview, he simply acts as if he's the minister of religionization. He doesn't care about Israeli students, but only how to turn them into settlers living in the West Bank."
--Democratic Camp party member, Stav Shafir, and Meretz party leader, Nitzan Horowitz, said after far right-wing Education Minister Rafi Peretz promoted plans to have school children make school trips in the West Bank.**

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In this special episode of PeaceCast, APN’s Debra Shushan and Ori Nir are the interviewees rather than the interviewers on the Bill Press Pod. A co-production.

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News Nosh 9.3.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday September 3, 2019
 
Quote of the day:
“I suppose the message today from the Likud campaign will be something like, ‘Ayoub Kara is a leftist who collaborates with the enemies of Israel, the New Israel Fund, the cable and satellite council and George Soros, with the aim of ousting an incumbent prime minister, establishing a Hamas state whose capital is at Channel 13 in Givatayim and appointing Azmi Bishara as Minister of Defense.’”
--Maariv’s senior political commentator Ben Caspit guesses the Likud reaction to the recordings released that reveal Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu shouting at then-Communications Minister, Ayoub Kara, telling him what he expected him to do on Netanyahu's behalf.*

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Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

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News Nosh 9.2.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday September 2, 2019
 
Quote of the day:
“As the elections approach, when passions are flaring and the discourse coarsens, I implore you not to believe the incitement and the personal attacks. Do not listen to the voices that are eager to radicalize the discourse, to the right or to the left."
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu accused the media of persecuting him and called to boycott Channel 12 after regularly released information about his corruption cases.*

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News Nosh 9.1.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday September 1, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
"There is no escape from seeing things as they are: the Israeli free press is under a dangerous attack."
--Senior political commentator of Yedioth Ahronoth, Nahum Barnea, writes in a front-page Op-Ed about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's accusations against journalists and institutions of the Israeli media and about Netanyahu's call to boycott Channel 12 News.*


Breaking News:
Missiles Fired From Lebanon at Israeli Base; Hezbollah Says Destroyed Military Vehicle
Lebanese army says Israeli drone violated its airspace and that Israel shelled southern Lebanon territory. Incident comes after Nasrallah threatened to attack. (Haaretz and Ynet)

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You may have heard that my good friends Dick and Lois Gunther will be honored by Americans for Peace Now next week in Los Angeles for their lifetime effort to advance peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Dick and I have been serving on the Board of Directors of APN for as long as I can remember. He and his wife Lois have always impressed and inspired me, with their devotion to peace and social justice, with their staunch support for Israeli democracy, for the values of justice, equality and peace that guided the founders of the State of Israel, and for an ethical alliance between progressive Americans and their counterparts in Israel.

I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this award than Dick and Lois, and I am delighted that Congressman Adam Schiff has agreed to be the guest speaker at the award luncheon on September 8th.

Please join me in honoring Lois and Dick and honoring the work APN does day-in-and-day-out.

Peter Edelman


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News Nosh 8.28.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday August 29, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
"I’m not comfortable being a G-string covering the nakedness of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as he boasts to every ambassador that 'Israel is the only democratic oasis in the Middle East.' I use the G-string as a metaphor because the metaphor of a fig leaf is obvious. The G-string, in contrast, is barely seen and barely felt, and we barely see or feel this democracy, which we are supposed to celebrate."
--Tamer Nafar, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and a renowned rapper, writes that - despite everything - Arabs in Israel should vote.*

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