APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday March 15, 2021

Quote of the day:

“Achievements cannot be destroyed because of a desire for revenge.” 
--Unnamed senior official at Israel Ports Authority said after Israeli Prime Minister BinyaminNetanyahu closed Israel's airspace to flights from Jordan after Jordan delayed Netanyahu's flight to the United Arab Emirates.*

1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
2. Hearings & Markups
3. On the Record

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on March 12th 2021 sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking the Biden administration to urge the Israeli government to do more to help the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip receive adequate supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Following is the full text of the letter: 

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday March 11, 2021
 

You Must Be Kidding: 
A video shows Israeli soldiers pushing and pulling five Palestinian children between the ages of 8 and 12 near the West Bank village of al-Rakiz into jeeps. Then they brought them to an Israeli police station in a settlement after settlers accused the children of trespassing on their outpost settlement. The children and Israeli activists said they were foraging for wild plants, as their pails attested.**

Breaking News:
Netanyahu visit today to UAE cancelled. More in Top News summary.

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday March 10, 2021

 

Quote of the day:

“The amount of condemnation of the incidents (on Capitol Hill) was so great and from so many directions that it’s doubtful that there will be a significant part of the public that will turn in that direction in Israel. And I don’t expect any influential (Israeli) leader to go with that claim (of a ‘stolen election’) in a significant way in light of the bitter experience of Trump.”
—Professor Tamar Hermann of the Israel Democracy Institute speaks about the results of a survey showing that one-third of Israelis will doubt the results of the upcoming elections.*

APN's daily news review from Israel – Tuesday, March 9, 2021

You Must Be Kidding: 
At the instruction of Israel’s Public Security Minister Amir Ohana, Israel police dispersed an International Women’s Day event in East Jerusalem.**

In 2020, 574,000 posts on social media included violent anti-Arab text, making a rate of one out of every 10 posts about Arabs.
—A report by 7amleh - The Arab Center for Social Media Advancement - reveals how has the corona pandemic has affected the discourse of racism and incitement against Arabs and Palestinians on Israeli social media networks.***

Israeli society bid farewell this week to one of its giants, Mordechai (Morale) Bar-On, a person who helped build the state and was among the icons of its peace movement and its progressive camp. Morale was among the leaders of APN’s Israeli sister-organization, Shalom Achshav (Peace Now), and wrote a book that documented Israel’s peace movement. Bar-On passed away at 92.

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.

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday March 8, 2021

Quote of the day:

“I think it is very much in Israel’s interest to end the occupation, and anyone who thinks this policy [of maintaining the settlements] can continue without a price is mistaken.” 
--Meretz leader, MK Nitzan Horowitz, responded to those who slammed him for saying “there were grounds for” the International Criminal Court investigation against Israel for war crimes.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday March 7, 2021

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Also in warfare, I will not accept (a soldier being) a captive unless he is, G-d forbid, a corpse..."
--A message an IDF commander sent to his soldiers.**

Breaking News:
Palestinians Claim Three Gaza Fisherman Killed by Israeli Fire; Army Denies
Nizar Ayash, chairman of the Gaza Fishermen's Association, said that the three fishermen were hit by a projectile near to Khan Younis. The Israeli military said in response that "the Israeli navy did not fire" at the Strip, and that it is investigating the reports. Earlier in the day, WAFA reported that Israeli forces opened fire and water cannons at fishermen while sailing at about three nautical miles from the shore, causing partial damage to at least one boat and forcing fishermen to return to the shore. (Haaretz+ and Maariv)