News Nosh 3.20.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
 
Quote of the day:
"I am conservative and a Republican, and I have supported the Likud party since the 1980s. But the reality is that 13 million people live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. And almost half of them are Palestinian."
--President of the World Jewish Congress, Ron Lauder, wrote in an Op-Ed in the New York Times, quoted in the Hebrew newspapers, that the only path forward for Israel is the two-state solution.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
“We don’t say a blessing for every negro … He needs to be a negro whose father and mother are white … if you know, they had a monkey for a son..."
--Israel's Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef calls black people ‘monkeys.**
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The White House says it wants to help Gaza. So it punitively cuts aid to desperate Gazans, adopts one-sided policies in Israel's favor – then blames the Palestinians for 'politicizing' humanitarian assistance.

Two conferences held last week underlined the Trump Administration’s combination of bad faith and ineptitude in addressing Gaza’s severe humanitarian crisis.

The first one, convened by the White House, was dubbed a "brainstorming session" on Gaza by Trump’s special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt. At the outset, Greenblatt enjoined participants to "leave all politics at the door" in order to help Gaza.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answers (3.19.18) - What does Trump mean?

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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.

This week, Alpher discusses President Trump's statement: “we’ve taken Jerusalem off the table”; what the prospective May summit between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un means in Middle East terms; how replacing Tillerson with Mike Pompeo and appointing Gina Haspel to take over the CIA affects the Middle East; Trump's response to Russia's use of a nerve agent in the poisoning of British spies; and where Netanyahu is on these Trump acts and statements.

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News Nosh 3.19.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday March 19, 2018
 
Quote of the day:
"Can I help?"
--A Palestinian man, who arrived at the scene of an attack moments after another Palestinian drove into Israeli soldiers killing two, was filmed offering to help the soldier who was kneeling over his wounded comrade-in-arms.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
"The High Court reduces the IDF's deterrence powers and it needs to know its place."
--MK Moti Regev (Habayit Hayehudi) said Israel's High Court of Justice was to blame for the deaths of Israeli soldiers and civilians by not immediately permitting the demolition of the homes of Palestinian assailants.**
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Legislative Round-Up: March 16, 2018

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived

  1. Bills & Resolutions
  2. Hearings & Markups
  3. On the Record
  4. Which Members of Congress Spoke at AIPAC?
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News Nosh 3.16.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, March 16, 2018

You Must Be Kidding: 
After 3,000 years in which the Ein Hanya spring was open to and frequented by local Jews, Christians and Muslims, the Jerusalem Municipality is planning to set up a roadblock nearby which will prevent thousands of residents from the adjacent Palestinian villages of al-Walaja and Battir and environs from reaching the site, writes Naama Riba in Haaretz+.
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News Nosh 3.15.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday March 15, 2018

You Must Be Kidding: 
“Now maybe all the 'intelligent' people will get it. All of those (in Kfar Vradim) who didn't want (religious) Jews because of 'racism,' will now have a mosque instead of a mikveh (ritual bath), Nakba Day instead of Independence Day, Martyrs Day instead of Remembrance Day, Expulsion Day instead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Palestinian flag instead of an Israeli flag."
One resident of Kfar Vradim wrote in a Facebook post following the news that half of the 120 plots of land in a new neighborhood were bought by Arab citizens.**
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Mike Pompeo

Update: this action, now closed, ran in May 2018. 

Yesterday, President Trump announced his choice of former Republican Congressman and current CIA director Mike Pompeo to be his nominee for Secretary of State. This is a potentially catastrophic decision that could lead the U.S. to war against Iran and threaten Israel’s national security.

Pompeo is an ultra-hawk on Iran and fierce critic of the Iran nuclear deal. After Trump was elected in November 2016, Pompeo tweeted, "I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism." He has used his post as CIA Director to push for the demise of the agreement, and we expect him to continue to do so as Secretary of State. This is despite the continued support for the deal from numerous U.S. and Israeli security figures.

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News Nosh 3.14.18

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday March 14, 2018
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
Because it was allegedly not possible to determine which of the bullets shot by the two soldiers was the fatal one that killed the Palestinian schoolboy who crossed the fence, the prosecution decided not to indict them both on manslaughter charges, but to reach a plea bargain and indict them on the lesser charges of recklessness and negligence.**
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