APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 16, 2015
Quote of the day:
"The principle ‘He who comes to kill you, kill him first’ is true everywhere, but assuming that every
(attacker) killed fuels the flames – the shooting should be the most exact and accurate as possible. That is
also what differentiates between animal instinct and considerations of human beings"
--Maariv commentator Ran Adelist writes that Israeli security forces shouldn't shoot when an attacker can be stopped otherwise, and should
shoot to injure, not to kill, unless it is unavoidable.
You Must Be Kidding:
"Calm down, I’m Yemenite."
--Words on shirt worn by Harel Cohen, after he had to deal with suspicious residents who called the police on him when he passed by.
You Must Be Kidding:
"Calm down, I’m Yemenite."
--Words on shirt worn by Harel Cohen, after he had to deal with suspicious residents who called the police on him when he passed by.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- City without borders – Israel’s continued effort to unite Jerusalem turned the idea of a siege inapplicable, but decision-makers are doing their own thing, and the security ranks were forced to act as a barrier in the face of the political pressures for harsher moves // Amos Harel
- Netanyahu demonstrates discretion, but where was he before the riots // Yossi Verter
- Abbas’ lie won’t won’t make the occupation be forgotten // Chemi Shalev
- Between an attack, a suspicious object and a lynch attempt, the streets of Afula are empty
- Even the detectives of the special units turned into security guards
- Lesson in sanity in the mixed (Jewish-Arab) classrooms
- Netanyahu calls for summit with Abbas, Palestinian President promised to Kerry to work towards calm
- Obama changes policy: In the wake of the strengthening of the rebels, US forced to keep forces in Afghanistan, beyond the target date
- A demonstration of the absurd – Israel demands a Burmese citizen that was recognized as a refugee to provide a certificate of good conduct from the country that oppressed him
- The confusing life of Huda Qassem, the chess champion from the (Arab-Israeli) village of Tira
Yedioth Ahronoth
- “I came to stab Jews” – [Main photo of Ahmed Mansara, 13, head bandaged, lying in hospital bed] Despite all the lies: the 13-year-old terrorist admitted in his interrogation that his cousin brought the knives and together they went to Pisgat Zeev. Because of his young age, the terrorist won’t be put on trial and won’t be sent to jail. Netanyahu: Abu Mazen incites and lies, but I am willing to meet him
- The soft stomach // Alex Fishman on how security forces have trouble stopping with people attacking with knives
- Head of incitement // Sima Kadmon on Palestinian President
- Blood pressure // Yifat Ehrlich on how Jewish and Arab doctors at Hadassah Hospital treat victims and terrorists
- Fear is bad for economy // Sever Plocker
- There is a way out // Ben-Dror Yemini
- WhatsApp Intifada // Sivan Rahav-Meir
- He has a cousin – Yaron Shariyun, cousin of (Rabin’s murderer) Yigal Amir, releases an album and talks about the rift in the family
Maariv This Week (Hebrew links only)
- 66%: Separate from the Arab neighborhoods in E. Jerusalem
- The Bibi legacy // Kalman Libskind complains that Netanyahu caused the belief that Israel does not really feel the Temple Mount is important to the state
- Everything is at/in the head // Yossi Melman writes that the Palestinian’s low esteem for Mahmoud Abbas is due in no small part to Israel’s dismissive attitude towards him for years
- In hot blood // Ran Adelist writes that "when the principle ‘He who comes to kill you, kill him first’ is true everywhere, but assuming that every (attacker) killed fuels the flames – the shooting should be the most exact and accurate as possible. That is also what differentiates between animal instinct and considerations of human beings"
- Jerusalem mix // Alon Ben David writes that those who insist that Jerusalem remain ‘unified’ – need to recognize the price of terror that this city will continue to pay until there is separation
- From both sides of the barricade – The lives of Israelis and Palestinians on the seam line in Jerusalem are conducted in recent days under intolerable tension, vigilance and mutual suspicion
- The lie was revealed: The 13-year-old terrorist lives and gets medical treatment [Photo of hand giving bandaged boy spoon of food]
- State in terror alert – Chase after two construction workers from E. Jerusalem in Givatayim and central Tel-Aviv, live fire in train due to suspicion of finding a terrorist and hundreds of calls to police hotlines. Israel is vigilant and is preparing for another Day of Rage in the West Bank and the capital
- 20 years to Rabin’s murder – Flourishing of the conspiracy: 1 in 5 (19%) Israelis believe Yigal Amir is not the real murderer. The number grew fast. Last year it was 14%. And 35% of the public believe in a conspiracy theory about the murder
Israel Hayom
- The living ‘dead’ – [Main photo of Ahmed Mansara, 13, head bandaged, lying in hospital bed and being fed] Netanyahu attacked Abu Mazen: “It would help if he stopped lying and inciting”
- Highest alert, also on Gaza Strip border
- The soldiers are coming – IDF soldiers and police guard Dizengoff St. in Tel-Aviv
- Holocaust-denier, terror denier // Boaz Bismuth on Mahmoud Abbas
- Encouraging – In the spirit of unity that prevails in these days, citizens are handing out blue and white ribbons today to drivers at intersections across the country
- Israel to stop transfer of monies to terrorists and their families
- Public charges: 8,000 citizens requested receiving gun license
- Assad army began military operation in Alepp and Homs – with the Russian Air Force
- The people of the shadows: A rare peek into the operations of the police’s ‘mistaravim’ (undercover police dressed as Arabs) unit in Jerusalem
- Love of Zion - Ali Salem, Mayor of Nazareth, is furious with the Arab MKs
- Seinfeld fever – What to expect at Seinfeld’s performance in Israel
- Knives of terrorists – in the face of Israeli heroism – a special project
News Summary:
The living ‘dead’ Palestinian boy attacker and the hysteria among Israelis across the country as Israel prepared for a Palestinian ‘Day of Rage’ today making the top stories in the Friday Hebrew newspapers. Also in the news, a court convicted teen Palestinian stone-throwers of manslaughter and not murder, saying they did not intend to kill Alexander Levlovitz, when the stones they threw caused his car to crash. Israel prepared to demolish the homes of seven Palestinian attackers and to revoke the citizenship of Israeli Arab terrorists.
Following the speech of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in which he erroneously said that Israel ‘executed in cold blood’ the 13-year-old Palestinian attacker, Ahmed Mansara, Israel released photos and videos of him in a Hadassah Hospital bed, eating, sleeping and looking confused at the camera. The papers also wrote that he reportedly told police that “I went there to stab Jews.” Physicians for Human Rights blasted Israel and the hospital for releasing the photos of a minor in custody, stating it a violation of Israel’s juvenile law and privacy laws. Mansara seriously injured a 13-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man. His father refused to believe it, despite the videos. The English translation of Abbas’ speech corrected his mistake and omitted the part that Manasra was executed. (Maariv)
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he was willing to meet Abbas to restore calm and told the US
not to draw false symmetry between Israeli and Palestinian terrorists. US Secretary of State John Kerry condemned terror attacks after the State Department spokesperson caused a storm by saying Israel may have used excessive force. State Department spokesman John Kirby was also forced to issue a clarification after saying that Israel had not observed the status quo at the Temple Mount, leading to 'a lot of the violence.' The Palestinians accused the Mideast Quartet of giving in to Israeli demands by canceling this week’s visit.
Across Israel yesterday, there were false terror alarms. In a massive chase with police cars and helicopters and with major highways blocked off, two suspected ‘terrorists’ were ‘caught, but after interrogation, turned out to be innocent electricians from E. Jerusalem. On a train in Haifa, female soldiers shouted, ‘terrorist, terrorist’ and passengers ran from carriage to carriage and then made an emergency brake stop, throwing passengers and their things on each other, injuring some. A soldier, whose gun was stuck, shot into the air, causing further panic. But there was no terrorist on the train. Israeli passengers physically attacked a Czech flight crew, because they did not want to fly with a non-Israeli carrier during such a tense security period. The papers published photos of empty shopping malls, cafes without customers, and reported that buses in Jerusalem ran nearly empty.
In order to avoid being misidentified as an Arab and attacked for revenge, one Raanana resident walked around with a shirt saying, “Calm down, I’m Yemenite,” Maariv reported. Harel Cohen said that following the attacks in Raanana he had to deal with suspicious residents who called the police on him when he passed by. He posted a selfie wearing the shirt and got 40,000 likes.
Commentators discussed whether the siege and barricading of Arab E. Jerusalem neighborhoods was the beginning of the division of the ‘unified’ city. One resident of Silwan neighborhood remarked to Maariv that the Palestinian struggle was succeeding, the right-wing was acting to divide the city.
The living ‘dead’ Palestinian boy attacker and the hysteria among Israelis across the country as Israel prepared for a Palestinian ‘Day of Rage’ today making the top stories in the Friday Hebrew newspapers. Also in the news, a court convicted teen Palestinian stone-throwers of manslaughter and not murder, saying they did not intend to kill Alexander Levlovitz, when the stones they threw caused his car to crash. Israel prepared to demolish the homes of seven Palestinian attackers and to revoke the citizenship of Israeli Arab terrorists.
Following the speech of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in which he erroneously said that Israel ‘executed in cold blood’ the 13-year-old Palestinian attacker, Ahmed Mansara, Israel released photos and videos of him in a Hadassah Hospital bed, eating, sleeping and looking confused at the camera. The papers also wrote that he reportedly told police that “I went there to stab Jews.” Physicians for Human Rights blasted Israel and the hospital for releasing the photos of a minor in custody, stating it a violation of Israel’s juvenile law and privacy laws. Mansara seriously injured a 13-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man. His father refused to believe it, despite the videos. The English translation of Abbas’ speech corrected his mistake and omitted the part that Manasra was executed. (Maariv)
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he was willing to meet Abbas to restore calm and told the US
not to draw false symmetry between Israeli and Palestinian terrorists. US Secretary of State John Kerry condemned terror attacks after the State Department spokesperson caused a storm by saying Israel may have used excessive force. State Department spokesman John Kirby was also forced to issue a clarification after saying that Israel had not observed the status quo at the Temple Mount, leading to 'a lot of the violence.' The Palestinians accused the Mideast Quartet of giving in to Israeli demands by canceling this week’s visit.
Across Israel yesterday, there were false terror alarms. In a massive chase with police cars and helicopters and with major highways blocked off, two suspected ‘terrorists’ were ‘caught, but after interrogation, turned out to be innocent electricians from E. Jerusalem. On a train in Haifa, female soldiers shouted, ‘terrorist, terrorist’ and passengers ran from carriage to carriage and then made an emergency brake stop, throwing passengers and their things on each other, injuring some. A soldier, whose gun was stuck, shot into the air, causing further panic. But there was no terrorist on the train. Israeli passengers physically attacked a Czech flight crew, because they did not want to fly with a non-Israeli carrier during such a tense security period. The papers published photos of empty shopping malls, cafes without customers, and reported that buses in Jerusalem ran nearly empty.
In order to avoid being misidentified as an Arab and attacked for revenge, one Raanana resident walked around with a shirt saying, “Calm down, I’m Yemenite,” Maariv reported. Harel Cohen said that following the attacks in Raanana he had to deal with suspicious residents who called the police on him when he passed by. He posted a selfie wearing the shirt and got 40,000 likes.
Commentators discussed whether the siege and barricading of Arab E. Jerusalem neighborhoods was the beginning of the division of the ‘unified’ city. One resident of Silwan neighborhood remarked to Maariv that the Palestinian struggle was succeeding, the right-wing was acting to divide the city.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.