APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 30, 2015
Quote of the day:
“’I don’t exempt myself and the government of responsibility,’ Netanyahu should have said. Instead, he
was quick to explain that the situation is not related to the occupation and the settlements, and he accused
Abu Mazen of lies and incitement, as if the trips (Minister) Uri Ariel (who wants to change the status quo)
made to the Temple Mount were innocent annual school trips to learn about the land.”
--Uri Segal writes in Maariv that US Secretary of State John Kerry was right: the waves of Palestinian violence will come and go until the Palestinians get a state.
--Uri Segal writes in Maariv that US Secretary of State John Kerry was right: the waves of Palestinian violence will come and go until the Palestinians get a state.
You Must Be Kidding:
“The word ‘peace’ may escape from the lips of the former US president and then what will we do? At that moment, the rally will turn ‘political,’ Clinton will be declared a treasonous, Arab-loving ‘lefty,’ and everything will storm to heaven.”
--Ben Caspit explains how Yitzhak Rabin's assassin succeeded also in rewriting history so that the reason for his death would not be heard.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Haaretz investigation: Walla website dictated sympathetic coverage for Netanyahu, which promoted moves for the benefit of the website’s owners
- The methods to Judaize (E. Jerusalem neighborhood of) Silwan
- Thousands of secular children joined ultra-Orthodox schools under the sponsorship of an organization that makes Jews religious
- Five years since the Carmel forest fire – Forest renewing, wild animals returning – Special photo project
- Story of the photographer who was sent to aid in the assassination of the Mufti
- Blow to (crime boss) Dumrani: Indicted for attempting to murder his rival
- ¼ page ad: “We will only win as a democracy” (spray-painted on a cement checkpoint block with Palestinian youth and burning tires in the background) – Israel Democracy Institute
Yedioth Ahronoth
- Wall of infamy – Read and be horrified: This is how the incitement looks on the Facebook page of the President
- Words have already killed // Eitan Haber
- Goodbye, friend – Bill Clinton will give speech at Rabin Memorial rally tomorrow
- After the flood – Streets in Sharon area dried up, floods moved to Arava
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- An (Israeli) neighborhood like this // Udi Segal writes that as long as nothing significantly changes in Israel, there will continue to be floods, power cuts, incitement on Facebook and waves of Palestinian violence
- Time of wounds // Jacky Khougy says Israel must prepare for the era after Mahmoud Abbas, which is soon
- Mother of (Danny Gonen), the man killed in West Bank shooting (in June): “They are ‘dead checking’ us” – Angry responses in right-wing to statement by Chief Justice Miriam Naor who told Devorah Gonen, mother of Danny Gonen, that “There are limits also for bereaved mothers.”
- Sarah (Netanyahu) against Naftali (former PM Residence manager): He is spilling my blood
- Contacts to allow Peres to address the Rabin rally (Saturday)
- The victory rally // Ben Caspit writes that Yigal Amir is one of the most successful assassins in history, by burying peace
- After the flood – Residents in Sharon area returned to homes and discovered the extent of the damage
- MK Eli Cohen completed another step in bank reform: “Lobbyists don’t influence me”
- Hole in hasbara (PR) – The most serious problem of Israel today is that it does not have anyone in the world that understands what it wants // Yair Lapid
- Falling into line: Russia is the new superpower of the region // Yossi Melman
Israel Hayom
- Dispute in the High Court; Bereaved mother: “They are turning the victims into the accused” – High Court to State: If destroying homes of terrorists was vital to security, why did you take your time?
- Sarah Netanyahu hints in (Yedioth publisher) Noni Mozes’ direction: “Who is funding Meni Naftali?”
- Rains in the Sharon region: 5x more than average
- No one to talk to – The new insights of Yoram Gaon following the wave of terror
- The little citizen vs. the forces of nature – and vs. the Electricity Corp
News Summary:
The effect of the floods, the new siege on Hebron, the High Court’s dispute with a bereaved mother and with the State and the latest violence were the top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers. Also in the news, arrests of ultra-Orthodox soldiers for abusing Palestinians.
In an attempt to decrease Palestinian stabbing attacks, the Israeli military decided to put a siege around the city of Hebron. The papers noted that Palestinian violence has moved from E. Jerusalem to the West Bank, with Hebron as the ‘capital of rage,’ as the Palestinians refer to the city. Moreover, male Palestinian youth will be prohibited from passing near the Jewish settlement enclave inside the city, Haaretz+ reports. And Palestinians are calling for mass demonstration and prayers – including at the Cave of the Patriarchs to protest 'Israel's policies of execution.' They say that a number of the Palestinians shot in alleged attacks were not attackers, including one of the two incidents that took place yesterday. Ynet writes that the IDF also plans to impose separation of Jews and Palestinians in Gush Etzion – a problematic plan for Jewish businesses there with Arab employees. In addition, Israeli police will guard ambulances taking wounded Palestinian alleged attackers to hospital, after Hebron settlers tried blocked a military ambulance’s way. Palestinians held a press conference yesterday demanding Israel release the bodies of the 16 alleged attackers it is holding.
From Haaretz+: The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the Palestinian death toll since the recent escalation began sits at 66, with 49 dead in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and 17 dead in Gaza. According to the ministry, the number of wounded sits at 2,000, with 900 wounded from live fire, roughly 880 from rubber bullets, 206 from physical blows, and 14 from burns. The ministry also stated that over 5,000 people have suffered tear gas inhalation.
Yesterday, the IDF filed the first indictments against seven Israeli soldiers who were suspected of beating Palestinian detainees and Ynet learned that investigators were instructed to search their phones for "right-wing statements,” including the words ‘beating Palestinians.” All the soldiers belong to the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion of the Kfir Brigade. (Also in Maariv.) Interestingly, Maariv and JPost reported that an editor of an ultra-Orthodox magazine wrote a column directed to Palestinians, calling on them not to target ultra-Orthodox. “Stop murdering us, we oppose (Jews) going up to the Temple Mount,” wrote Aryeh Ehrlich.
In a hearing over the planned demolition of homes of Palestinian attackers, the High Court told the State that if it were so vital to security to demolish Palestinian attackers' homes, why had it taken so long to demolish homes that were previous given approval. Chief Justice Miriam Naor chastised a bereaved mother, who accused the court of turning the victims into the accused because it had not given approval yet to demolish the homes.
Maariv’s Ben Caspit reveals the key element missing from the main memorial rally marking 20 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin will take place Saturday night: peace. According to Caspit, the reason why Shimon Peres was not invited to speak was because he would not be able to avoid speaking about peace. The organizers of the rally, mainly the youth movements’ council, say the event will be apolitical with the goal of 'denouncing violence and racism and strengthening a moderate center.' Caspit writes that the assassin Yigal Amir not only succeeded in murdering the prime minister and burying the peace process, but he also succeeded in rewriting history – as if the process for peace never existed. Bill Clinton arrived in Israel to speak at the rally. Caspit writes: “The word ‘peace’ may escape from the lips of the former US president and then what will we do? At that moment, the rally will turn ‘political,’ Clinton will be declared a treasonous, Arab-loving ‘lefty,’ and everything will storm to heaven.”
“They wanted to bring Rabin into the consensus by finding the most common ground, to remove the peace, RIP, the left-wing, may their names be cursed, but not perpetuate the real memory and what happened in November ’95, including the incitement, the rabbis, the pulsa denura, the violence, the harsh words and the crossing of lines,” writes Caspit.
The effect of the floods, the new siege on Hebron, the High Court’s dispute with a bereaved mother and with the State and the latest violence were the top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers. Also in the news, arrests of ultra-Orthodox soldiers for abusing Palestinians.
In an attempt to decrease Palestinian stabbing attacks, the Israeli military decided to put a siege around the city of Hebron. The papers noted that Palestinian violence has moved from E. Jerusalem to the West Bank, with Hebron as the ‘capital of rage,’ as the Palestinians refer to the city. Moreover, male Palestinian youth will be prohibited from passing near the Jewish settlement enclave inside the city, Haaretz+ reports. And Palestinians are calling for mass demonstration and prayers – including at the Cave of the Patriarchs to protest 'Israel's policies of execution.' They say that a number of the Palestinians shot in alleged attacks were not attackers, including one of the two incidents that took place yesterday. Ynet writes that the IDF also plans to impose separation of Jews and Palestinians in Gush Etzion – a problematic plan for Jewish businesses there with Arab employees. In addition, Israeli police will guard ambulances taking wounded Palestinian alleged attackers to hospital, after Hebron settlers tried blocked a military ambulance’s way. Palestinians held a press conference yesterday demanding Israel release the bodies of the 16 alleged attackers it is holding.
From Haaretz+: The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the Palestinian death toll since the recent escalation began sits at 66, with 49 dead in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and 17 dead in Gaza. According to the ministry, the number of wounded sits at 2,000, with 900 wounded from live fire, roughly 880 from rubber bullets, 206 from physical blows, and 14 from burns. The ministry also stated that over 5,000 people have suffered tear gas inhalation.
Yesterday, the IDF filed the first indictments against seven Israeli soldiers who were suspected of beating Palestinian detainees and Ynet learned that investigators were instructed to search their phones for "right-wing statements,” including the words ‘beating Palestinians.” All the soldiers belong to the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion of the Kfir Brigade. (Also in Maariv.) Interestingly, Maariv and JPost reported that an editor of an ultra-Orthodox magazine wrote a column directed to Palestinians, calling on them not to target ultra-Orthodox. “Stop murdering us, we oppose (Jews) going up to the Temple Mount,” wrote Aryeh Ehrlich.
In a hearing over the planned demolition of homes of Palestinian attackers, the High Court told the State that if it were so vital to security to demolish Palestinian attackers' homes, why had it taken so long to demolish homes that were previous given approval. Chief Justice Miriam Naor chastised a bereaved mother, who accused the court of turning the victims into the accused because it had not given approval yet to demolish the homes.
Maariv’s Ben Caspit reveals the key element missing from the main memorial rally marking 20 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin will take place Saturday night: peace. According to Caspit, the reason why Shimon Peres was not invited to speak was because he would not be able to avoid speaking about peace. The organizers of the rally, mainly the youth movements’ council, say the event will be apolitical with the goal of 'denouncing violence and racism and strengthening a moderate center.' Caspit writes that the assassin Yigal Amir not only succeeded in murdering the prime minister and burying the peace process, but he also succeeded in rewriting history – as if the process for peace never existed. Bill Clinton arrived in Israel to speak at the rally. Caspit writes: “The word ‘peace’ may escape from the lips of the former US president and then what will we do? At that moment, the rally will turn ‘political,’ Clinton will be declared a treasonous, Arab-loving ‘lefty,’ and everything will storm to heaven.”
“They wanted to bring Rabin into the consensus by finding the most common ground, to remove the peace, RIP, the left-wing, may their names be cursed, but not perpetuate the real memory and what happened in November ’95, including the incitement, the rabbis, the pulsa denura, the violence, the harsh words and the crossing of lines,” writes Caspit.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.