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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 24, 2013
Number of the day:
1 million.
--The amount of dollars billionaire Power Rangers creator Haim Saban said
he would donate to Israeli soldiers if Simon Cowell would sing 'Go Go Power
Rangers.'**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 23, 2013
Quote of the day:
"...history's judgment will doubtless be damning. And it will cite, inter alia, his obsessive demand for Palestinian recognition as proof that he always intended to avoid a pragmatic, two-state solution, despite his Bar-Ilan declarations."
--Journalist and commentator David Landau explains in Haaretz why Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel "as the Jewish state" is proof of his disingenuousness regarding peace between Israelis and Palestinians.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 22, 2013
Quote of the day:
"It looks like a terrorist act."
--Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's reaction upon seeing his creamy calorie-laden surprise birthday cake
at the Likud-Beiteinu meeting yesterday.**
Last week, my colleagues in the Israeli Peace Now movement issued two blockbuster reports. These weren't the regular "more construction was announced" fare. These reports have huge implications, both negative and positive, for peace and the two-state solution.
Last week, my colleagues in the Israeli Peace Now movement issued two blockbuster reports. These
weren't the regular "more construction was announced" fare. These reports have huge implications, both negative
and positive, for peace and the two-state solution.
The Bad News: Settlement Construction Surges, Even Without Tenders
Peace Now documented a 70 percent increase in new
construction starts in settlements during the first six months of 2013, as compared to the same period in 2012.
That's in addition to a huge number of units completed or on which work was ongoing during this period--altogether
translating to 3,070 units which are or will soon be available to house new settlers. Assuming a family of five,
this translates to around 15,000 new settlers.
This week, Alpher discusses the renewed mystery regarding the cause of Yasser Arafat's death in 2004, what does Saudi Arabia's election to the UN Security Council followed by its prompt resignation tell us about Saudi-American relations and the Saudi role in the Iran and Syria issues, and why did it take so long for PM Netanyahu and Finance Minister Lapid to appoint Karnit Flug (pictured) as new governor of the Bank of Israel?
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 21, 2013
Quote of the day:
"The Likud's hilltop youth, headed by (MK) Yariv Levin, are leading Israel into the murky waters of a
totalitarian state."
--MK Isaac Herzog (Labor) reacts like others from the right and the left to the attempt to
limit Israel's High Court's authority.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 20, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Cockadoodle-doo muezzin"
--Racist campaign ad for Jerusalem municipal elections by far right-wing candidate Arieh King.**