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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday February 28, 2019
Quote of the day:
"As a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, it shocks me that a party that follows the path of Rabbi
Kahane, who supports terror and harms innocents only because they are Arabs, receives widespread legitimacy and
coverage. It is precisely from the Jewish values of the love of the non-Jew - anyone for whom the Jewish and
democratic character of the state is important to him, must denounce a party that champions the harming
minorities as a way of life."
--MK Michal Biran (Kulanu) told Maariv after equating the Otzma Yehudit party with the Nazi government.*
--MK Michal Biran (Kulanu) told Maariv after equating the Otzma Yehudit party with the Nazi government.*
APN/Peace Now In the News
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The Jewish Press: "Peace Now Petitions AIPAC to Disinvite Netanyahu" (2/28/19)Americans for Peace Now (APN) on Wednesday launched an online petition calling on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to "condemn and disinvite Netanyahu." Read >> |
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World Israel News: "Americans for Peace Now petition AIPAC to ‘disinvite’ Netanyahu" (2/28/19)"Benjamin Netanyahu has forged an alliance with racists," states the petition, denouncing him for including the Otzma Yehudit party in the joint list. Read >> |
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NY Times Editorial: "Netanyahu Sparks Outrage Over Pact With Racist Party" (2/24/19)Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made something of an art form of cutting deals with small Israeli political parties, but his latest alliance has earned him denunciations from quarters where he has usually been able to count on unshakable support... Read >> |
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday February 27, 2019
Quote of the day:
"The Lamed Hey convoy was a group of people who fought shoulder to shoulder and fell together: secular
and religious, Ashkenazis and Mizrachis. So to turn this subject into a source of division for horrible
election propaganda with all the photos from terror attacks, this makes me so sad.”
--Attorney Nili Egozi, the daughter of the widow of one of the fallen from the Lamed Hey reacted to the Likud election campaign video.*
--Attorney Nili Egozi, the daughter of the widow of one of the fallen from the Lamed Hey reacted to the Likud election campaign video.*
Update: this action, now closed, ran in February 2019.
Benjamin Netanyahu has forged an alliance with racists. AIPAC should condemn him, not make him a featured speaker at its policy conference.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday February 26, 2019
Quote of the day:
“If, and only if, it would have reached a fifth of the status ‘Skin’ reached in the world, they would
already be talking in terms of slander and contempt of Israel, and asking why anyone should fund this
creation."
--Yedioth film critic, Binyamin Tobias, writes about why an Israeli version of Israeli director Guy Nattiv's US film on racism in America couldn't succeed in Israel.*
--Yedioth film critic, Binyamin Tobias, writes about why an Israeli version of Israeli director Guy Nattiv's US film on racism in America couldn't succeed in Israel.*
Americans for Peace Now (APN) calls on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his alliance with a racist ultra-nationalist Israeli party, and to disinvite him from its annual policy conference.
In response to the firestorm that has erupted over Prime Minister Netanyahu’s brokering a deal designed to bring Kahanists into the Knesset, AIPAC on Friday issued a tepid statement. It called the Otzma Yehudit (“Jewish Power”) party “racist and reprehensible.” It failed, however, to say a word about the Prime Minister, who has aligned himself with this Kahanist party and is working to bring it into government.
On Saturday, the very next day, AIPAC announced it was “honored” that Benjamin Netanyahu will speak at its policy conference next month, just days before Israel’s general elections.
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.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday February 25, 2019
Quote of the day:
"This is a mockery. Ahed Tamimi sat eight months in prison for a slap. May every soldier know from now
that he is allowed to become a human animal, to abuse and to humiliate."
--MK Esawi Freij (Meretz) responded to the plea bargain according to which one of the five soldiers from the Netzach Yehuda battalion who severely abused a detained Palestinian father and son would be sentenced to six and a half months in prison.*
--MK Esawi Freij (Meretz) responded to the plea bargain according to which one of the five soldiers from the Netzach Yehuda battalion who severely abused a detained Palestinian father and son would be sentenced to six and a half months in prison.*
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday February 24, 2019
Quote of the day:
“I am sorry from the depths of my heart if what I said offended any one of you, but I cannot help but
see the heavy price that we are paying through our children, our soldiers, for the reality of ruling over
another people. A reality that has lasted for 52 years."
--TV journalist Oshrat Kotler choked up as she told viewers Saturday after receiving thousands of death threats for saying last week that "They send children to the army, to the Territories, and get them back human animals. That’s the result of the occupation.”*
--TV journalist Oshrat Kotler choked up as she told viewers Saturday after receiving thousands of death threats for saying last week that "They send children to the army, to the Territories, and get them back human animals. That’s the result of the occupation.”*