APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, October 18, 2013
Number of the day:
70.
--Percentage increase in new settlement construction starts in the first half of 2013 compared
with the first half of last year, Peace Now reports. **
Today the Israeli Peace Now movement issued a report documenting a surge in settlement construction during the first half of 2013. The report contradicts the popular narrative that settlement construction in the West Bank slowed during the run-up to the re-start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
In reality, the period of January-June 2013 saw a huge increase in construction compared to the same period in 2012. The details of the report are summarized below. The full report is available here.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 17, 2013
Quote of the day:
"When the Latrun monastery is spray-painted with graffiti, it troubles the entire Protestant world - and we cry about anti-Semitism? Those who seek to destroy and devastate us come from us."
--Former Shin Bet chief Carmi Gilon says the roots for the next political murder are planted among "price tag" activists.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 16, 2013
Word of the day:
Hosseleh.
-- "That extra bit of patience nobody has. As in, 'I so don't have the hosseleh for this silly
media war between Rohani and Netanyahu. Don't they know neither the Israelis nor the Iranians have any
hosseleh left for another war?'" Ilene Prusher writes a Farsi phrasebook for the Israeli Prime Minister.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 15, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Some of my comrades-in-arms got combat shock, not from the battle itself, but from the burial of the
(Egyptian) soldiers."
--Major (res.) Mati Chai talks about his understandings about war and the enemy after he decides to return the dog
tags he took from a dead Egyptian soldier 40 years ago.**
The following article was published in the English edition of Israel's Haaretz daily on October 13, 2013
By Ori Nir
Two recently published surveys should make the Israeli government pause and ponder the impact of its intransigent policies on its staunchest supporters, American Jews.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 14, 2013
Quote of the day:
"... if you observe American Jews, you know full well that young American Jews are much less disposed to tolerate
the cognitive dissonance that results from the clash between their values and some Israeli policies."
--Americans for Peace Now spokesman, Ori Nir, analyzes recent polls showing a new American Jewish
generation that is alienated from an intransigent Israel.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 13, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Students need music in order to cry, she explained."
--Haaretz education affairs reporter Or Kashti describes how the Israeli education system manipulates Israeli
teenagers' feelings of fear to instill nationalist messages.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 11, 2013
Numbers of the day:
14.1% and 8.1%
-- The percentage of ultra-Orthodox and national religious youths who claimed former prime minister Yitzhak
Rabin was killed by an Arab.**
This is the ninth in a series of reviews of new books on Middle Eastern affairs. We asked Dr. Gail Weigl, an APN volunteer and a professor of art history, to review Sayed Kashua's novel on Jewish-Arab relations in Israel.