11/12/13
UPDATE: Settlement Boom Even Bigger Than Was Known
Today, Peace Now (Israel) and Americans for Peace Now released a new report looking at the first 8 months of the Netanyahu government and its record regarding settlements. The key findings are summarized below, followed by a detailed examination of the data. The full report, including all the data in table form, can be viewed/downloaded here.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday November 08, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Good things are coming."
--Graffiti sprayed on walls in a Palestinian village by right-wing activists Thursday, who also
set two cars on fire.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday November 07, 2013
Quote of the day:
"There were arrests, there were all kind of arrests. But the high point of the night was drawing fire,
creating a situation where they fired at us."
--Testimony of a former soldier from the
Golani Brigade. His commander had said: "I want bodies full of
bullets."**
APN's Israel Study Tour participants held a series of meetings with Israeli Knesset members at the Israeli parliament. One of them was MK Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home, one of the youngest and most extreme right-wing members of the Knesset. Shaked routinely attacks Israel's peace camp. She does so while noting how effective Israel's peace movement has been in mainstreaming the notion that Israel needs a two-state solution to its conflict with the Palestinians.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday November 06, 2013
Number of the day:
46.
--The percentage difference between the average monthly income of a Jewish male employee versus an
Arab male employee in Israel, according to just released data.**
Peace Now's new movie explaining why it is so important that we not give up, why we must continue to work for peace.
An article by Shaul Amsterdamski in today's edition of the Calcalist - an Israeli business daily linked to Yedioth Ahronoth - reports on a remarkable phenomenon: the variety of "loans" made by the Israeli government to settlements and individual Israeli settlers, either with a formal or informal understanding that part, most, or even all of the loan would never be repaid.
The original article (in Hebrew) is available here. Includes here is a portion of the article, as translated into English by Israel News Today.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday November 05, 2013
Quote of the day:
"From our point of view, possibility of holding a national referendum is real and and the work of persuasion must
start from now."
--Peace Now Secretary General Yariv Oppenheimer on just-launched Peace Now campaign to persuade
Israelis to support a two-state solution. (See video.)**
Everyone remembers the Princess Bride. Who can forget the drama, the humor, the love story between Buttercup, and the dashing hero, Westley, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts. And who could forget the haunted, lovable Inigo Montoya - the sword-wielding mercenary-turned-hero determined to avenge the death of his father at the hands of the six-fingered man.
This week, Alpher discusses the NSA listening in on Israel and whether the repeated leaks from Washington that link Israel to mysterious attacks on Syrian missiles are in the same category, Secretary of State Kerry's returning to Israel and Palestine this week and what new initiatives by the two sides await him upon arrival, and why the IDF needs more money now, with security threats from the Arab world reduced by chaos and revolution