APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday October 31, 2014
Quote of the day:
"The Swedish government should understand that Middle East relations are more complex than a piece of
self-assembled IKEA furniture..."
--Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, as he announced that Israel would be recalling its ambassador to Sweden after Sweden declared it recognized the state of Palestine. Even better was the his Swedish counterpart's response.**
--Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, as he announced that Israel would be recalling its ambassador to Sweden after Sweden declared it recognized the state of Palestine. Even better was the his Swedish counterpart's response.**
Front Page News:
Haaretz
- Police at highest alert; Temple Mount will partially open for worshippers
- Not just stones: Rise in number of terrorists from E. Jerusalem
- Name of shooter of Yehuda Glick was raised two months ago as a suspect in another attack
- Sweden officially recognized Palestine: Israel recalled its ambassador
- The move to the right proves: When Netanyahu sees elections, he does not use his eyes // Yossi Verter
- Olmert in police investigation: I took care of (former aide) Zaken's money concerns, but not to buy silence
- After two-and-a-half years in detention centers, an asylum seeker is now free, but despite the High Court ruling - thousands still jailed
- The White Houses' green consolation after the expected blow from the mid-term elections // Chemi Shalev
- Initiatives by institutions for higher education remind that there are other methods aside from psychometric and matriculation exams
- Transportation Ministry having difficulty putting the electric bicycles back in time
- Is the IDF on the way to turning into a religious fundamentalist army? // Kobi Ben-Simchon
- 1/4 page ad: 19 years since Rabin's murder - Main Rally - Returning to the square and returning the hope! 1.11.14 19:30, Rabin Square, Tel-Aviv
- Temple Mount high alert - Today: Thousands of police will try to prevent riots in Jerusalem
- Jerusalem Syndrome // Nahum Barnea
- The rooster call // Sima Kadmon
- "Sara (Netanyahu) demanded cleaning employees change clothes three times a day" - Former prime minister's residence manager, Meni Naftali, tells court
- Winter is here - wet weekend
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Rage alert - Following (Israeli police) closure of Temple Mount: Fatah declared intensification of riots
- His blood was permitted (to be let) // Kalman Libskind
- Netanyahu changed his mind: Conversion law goes back to government (for approval)
- A table for one - Netanyahu is a prime minister without a government // Ben Caspit
- Lieberman recalled the ambassador to Sweden following Sweden's recognition of Palestinian state
- Lapid: New factory to be built in Arad will employ 250 people, including some fired from Magevot Arad factory (which closed down)
- Terror attack against Israelis in Peru was thwarted
- In our neighborhood: What exactly is the story of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team's coach
- Peace and security: Why nothing is left from Rabin's legacy? // Eyal Levy
- Jerusalem Front: Arieh King conquers E. Jerusalem
- (Singer) Coreen Elal discovers religion
- The Mossad and I: Ron Miburg was not at the gathering of Blich graduates
- Watch a surprise: Who is waiting for Sarah Netanyahu at the courthouse?
Israel Hayom
- Climactic tension in Jerusalem - 7 hours after assassination attempt on Yehuda Glick - the terrorist was eliminated; Glick continues to fight for his life
- Whoever holds Jerusalem, holds the Land of Israel // Haim Shine
- Fragile status quo on the Temple Mount // Dan Margalit
- Sweden recognized 'Palestine'; Israel recalled its ambassador
- Who will be the next chief of staff? Yaalon opens a round of consultations
- Beginning winter driving with cheaper gasoline - Price to drop by 27 agorot on Saturday night
- Starting tomorrow, headlights must be turned on during the day when driving inter-city highways
- Mini winter
- Peru: "Hezbollah attack against Israelis was thwarted"
- 19 years since the murder: Saturday night, central rally in memory of Rabin
- Robbie Williams declared: "I will perform in Israel in May 2015"
News Summary:
Jerusalem police are on the highest alert today after they killed the young Palestinian man yesterday suspected of trying to assassinate a prominent right-wing activist and then closed the Temple Mount, a move Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called 'a declaration of war.' Meanwhile, Israel recalled its ambassador to Sweden after Sweden recognized the state of Palestine and the analysts continued to discuss the crisis in US-Israel (or rather US-Netanyahu, relations, making the top stories in Friday Hebrew newspapers.
After the attempt to assassinate Yehuda Glick, a far right-wing activist who has tried to get permission for Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, the Israeli police shot dead the suspect at his home in E. Jerusalem and closed the Temple Mount, Islam's third holiest site. Abbas called it a declaration of war, his Fatah party declared a 'Day of Rage' today - meaning more widespread clashes in E. Jerusalem and the papers interviewed Palestinians from E. Jerusalem who described how important praying at Al-Aqsa (on the Temple Mount) is for them and said how they would use violence, if necessary, to stop anyone preventing them from praying there. Even US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Israel not to close the Temple Mount to Muslim worshippers. In the end, the police decided to open it partially today: to worshippers aged 50 and above, in order to somewhat 'calm the winds.'
Yedioth ran an interesting graphic on the violence in Jerusalem, connecting between the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir in July and the recent attacks on Jews. It showed a satellite image of Jerusalem with the West Bank area around it. The Green Line was drawn through it, showing the pre-'67 borders, and names were placed at points where key incidents happened over the past few months: Shuafat neighborhood, Ammunition Hill, Begin Heritage Center, Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. It also named other places in the news: E. Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya (site of many riots), the Wailing Wall (i.e. the Temple Mount), the E. Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, where settler Jews have moved i,n and Gush Etzion, where the three Jewish teens were kidnapped and murdered in June. The map showed that actually everything is happening over the Green Line except for the assassination attempt by a young Palestinian at the Begin Center and a tractor attack by a young Palestinian in Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood next to the 'seamline.' The graphic also gave a timeline:
12 June: Kidnapping of (Jewish) teens (Gush Etzion)
2 July: Murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir (Shuafat)
July-August: Jerusalem light rail attacked by Palestinian rioters
4 August: Tractor Attack (Shmuel Hanavi) - In clashes that broke out afterward Mohammed Snocrot was killed (by Border Police)
22 October: Hit-and-run attack (Ammunition Hill light rail stop)
29 October: Assassination attempt (Begin Heritage Center)
[However, what is missing from this description is the hundreds of arrests of young Palestinian E. Jerusalemites, many who threw stones and Molotov cocktails, following the horrific murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 16, who was burned alive. The heavy hand of the police and the mass arrests only ignited the area even more. - OH]
A Maariv poll showed that 46% of the Israeli public (and therefore and even higher percent of the Jewish Israeli public) believe that Israel has a right to build in 'its land at any time.' The article was titled that 46% support building in E. Jerusalem. [Note: however, that the wording, 'it's land,' is vague and could be understood by a left-wing Jew or Arab to refer to only land on the Israeli side of the Green Line and not what Israel annexed - e.g., Palestinian E. Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights. - OH]
**Meanwhile, the Israeli and Swedish Foreign Ministers exchanged barbs using furniture as an analogy for diplomacy, after Sweden recognized Palestine and Israel recalled its ambassador to Sweden.
Jerusalem police are on the highest alert today after they killed the young Palestinian man yesterday suspected of trying to assassinate a prominent right-wing activist and then closed the Temple Mount, a move Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called 'a declaration of war.' Meanwhile, Israel recalled its ambassador to Sweden after Sweden recognized the state of Palestine and the analysts continued to discuss the crisis in US-Israel (or rather US-Netanyahu, relations, making the top stories in Friday Hebrew newspapers.
After the attempt to assassinate Yehuda Glick, a far right-wing activist who has tried to get permission for Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, the Israeli police shot dead the suspect at his home in E. Jerusalem and closed the Temple Mount, Islam's third holiest site. Abbas called it a declaration of war, his Fatah party declared a 'Day of Rage' today - meaning more widespread clashes in E. Jerusalem and the papers interviewed Palestinians from E. Jerusalem who described how important praying at Al-Aqsa (on the Temple Mount) is for them and said how they would use violence, if necessary, to stop anyone preventing them from praying there. Even US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Israel not to close the Temple Mount to Muslim worshippers. In the end, the police decided to open it partially today: to worshippers aged 50 and above, in order to somewhat 'calm the winds.'
Yedioth ran an interesting graphic on the violence in Jerusalem, connecting between the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir in July and the recent attacks on Jews. It showed a satellite image of Jerusalem with the West Bank area around it. The Green Line was drawn through it, showing the pre-'67 borders, and names were placed at points where key incidents happened over the past few months: Shuafat neighborhood, Ammunition Hill, Begin Heritage Center, Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. It also named other places in the news: E. Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya (site of many riots), the Wailing Wall (i.e. the Temple Mount), the E. Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, where settler Jews have moved i,n and Gush Etzion, where the three Jewish teens were kidnapped and murdered in June. The map showed that actually everything is happening over the Green Line except for the assassination attempt by a young Palestinian at the Begin Center and a tractor attack by a young Palestinian in Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood next to the 'seamline.' The graphic also gave a timeline:
12 June: Kidnapping of (Jewish) teens (Gush Etzion)
2 July: Murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir (Shuafat)
July-August: Jerusalem light rail attacked by Palestinian rioters
4 August: Tractor Attack (Shmuel Hanavi) - In clashes that broke out afterward Mohammed Snocrot was killed (by Border Police)
22 October: Hit-and-run attack (Ammunition Hill light rail stop)
29 October: Assassination attempt (Begin Heritage Center)
[However, what is missing from this description is the hundreds of arrests of young Palestinian E. Jerusalemites, many who threw stones and Molotov cocktails, following the horrific murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 16, who was burned alive. The heavy hand of the police and the mass arrests only ignited the area even more. - OH]
A Maariv poll showed that 46% of the Israeli public (and therefore and even higher percent of the Jewish Israeli public) believe that Israel has a right to build in 'its land at any time.' The article was titled that 46% support building in E. Jerusalem. [Note: however, that the wording, 'it's land,' is vague and could be understood by a left-wing Jew or Arab to refer to only land on the Israeli side of the Green Line and not what Israel annexed - e.g., Palestinian E. Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights. - OH]
**Meanwhile, the Israeli and Swedish Foreign Ministers exchanged barbs using furniture as an analogy for diplomacy, after Sweden recognized Palestine and Israel recalled its ambassador to Sweden.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.