Below are the amendments that are pending for this morning's markup in the Senate Banking Committee of S. 269, “The Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2015”, along with very brief analysis of what each would do. Taken as a whole, the goal of these amendments appears to be to demonstrate that the base text – which is the subject of serious controversy – could be a lot worse. Which of course is true, but does not change the fact that the base text itself remains problematic, and moving ahead with it at this time directly threatens the ongoing talks with Iran over its nuclear program.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday January 29, 2015
Quote of the day:
“Even if the leaders of the state and the army believed that implementing this policy would bring about
the cessation of firing on Israeli communities, it should not have been implemented because of the expected and
horrific consequences."
--B'tselem finds that more than 70% of the people killed in IDF airstrikes on Gazan homes during Operation
Protective Edge - were children, women and the elderly.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday January 28, 2015
Quotes of the day:
"Landau was the truest of Zionists, a lover of Israel to his core: not only because of his decision to
come on aliyah but because he adored Israel and prayed for its welfare each day. He thought of it as a
sick patient in dire need of an urgent operation that could save it, but for the shortsighted stubbornness of
its leaders."
--Haaretz's Chemi Shalev writes about the man who gave him his first reporting job.**
--Haaretz's Chemi Shalev writes about the man who gave him his first reporting job.**
"He was an Orthodox editor of a secular newspaper; British to his soul, editor of a Hebrew newspaper;
he was a radical Zionist and a no less radical leftist, some of whose family lived in settlements, settlements
that he regarded as a disaster."
--Haaretz's Gideon Levy writes about his unusual editor-in-chief who passed away yesterday.****
--Haaretz's Gideon Levy writes about his unusual editor-in-chief who passed away yesterday.****
The Israeli prime minister has two main tasks, and he's failing at both.
Benjamin Netanyahu believes he has just one job, and that is to stop Iran from getting hold of nuclear weapons. He might argue that this description of his mission as Israel’s prime minister is too limiting, though such an argument would not be particularly credible. Israel’s very existence, he has argued, consistently, and at times convincingly, is predicated on stopping Iran, a country ruled by a regime that seeks both Israel’s annihilation and the means to carry it out.
In light of the Palestinian decision to seek membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC), and to pursue action in that body, and consistent with APN’s longstanding Board-adopted principles regarding the efforts of the Palestinians in the international arena, APN today articulated the following principles, adopted earlier this month by APN’s Board of Directors:
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday January 27, 2015
Numbers of the day:
26:23.
--Number of mandates for Herzog-Livni 'Zionist Camp' party vs. Likud in latest elections poll.**
--Number of mandates for Herzog-Livni 'Zionist Camp' party vs. Likud in latest elections poll.**
This week, Alpher discusses the repercussions of the invitation to Netanyahu to address Congress; the Mossad advisory against escalating sanctions and Israel’s tactics against Iran; the attack last week across the Golan border that was attributed to Israel that resulted in the death of an Iranian Quds Force general; strategic ramifications for the elections given the united electoral list of Arab citizens of Israel and the Labor primaries having produced a list with an unusually large, young contingent of women reform advocates; the strategic balance sheet that King Salman inherits after the death of Saudi King Abdullah last week and a coup staged in Yemen by a Zaidi-Shiite sect;
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday January 26, 2015
Quote of the day:
“Hello everybody, this Druze is my little brother and I wanna send you all a message after some
thinking
Love more
Be more patient
Be nicer
Be kinder
Give more
Share more
Laugh more
And cry more
After all, we all belong to the same race, the human race..."
--Adam Hasoun, brother of Tommy, who was beaten Friday by 10 religious Jewish men in Jerusalem when they heard him speaking Arabic, posted a message to English-speaking immigrants on a Tel-Aviv Facebook group.**
Love more
Be more patient
Be nicer
Be kinder
Give more
Share more
Laugh more
And cry more
After all, we all belong to the same race, the human race..."
--Adam Hasoun, brother of Tommy, who was beaten Friday by 10 religious Jewish men in Jerusalem when they heard him speaking Arabic, posted a message to English-speaking immigrants on a Tel-Aviv Facebook group.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday January 25, 2015
Quote of the day:
"They are helping Netanyahu beat his rivals here, and he is helping them humiliate their rival
there."
--Yedioth's senior commentator Nahum Barnea writes that the deal between the US Republican Party and the Likud is dangerous.**
--Yedioth's senior commentator Nahum Barnea writes that the deal between the US Republican Party and the Likud is dangerous.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday January 23, 2015
Phrase of the day:
'Persona non-grata.'
--Yedioth's Shimon Shiffer on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after arranging a visit to the US
without coordinating with the US President.**