APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday December 13, 2020

You Must Be Kidding: 

“I trust Israel’s wisdom that it will know how to advance a solution to the (Palestinian) issue and not just (focus) on the issue of tourism.”

--Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said that solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was a key part of the Morocco-Israel normalization deal.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday December 10, 2020

Quote of the day:

"Only in an Israel stricken with hatred for Netanyahu, and where the left doesn’t exist and the center is duplicitous, can one talk about a supporter of apartheid as a liberal and a fan of annexation as statesmanlike. If someone who worked to shut Tel Aviv down on Shabbat, who sent students [on school trips] to prostrate themselves at Abraham’s tomb in Hebron and established the disgrace of the Holot detention center [for African refugees] is liberal, what should we say about Bezalel Smotrich? That he isn’t liberal?"
--Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz how center-left-wing Israelis are considering supporting far right-wing Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar, who broke off to form his own party.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday December 9, 2020 

Quotes of the day:

"Allowing Israel to arbitrate on land rights in the West Bank is like asking Tony Soprano to adjudicate all the financial disputes in New Jersey."
-- Attorney Michael Sfard writes about why the Knesset's attempt to approve Israel administrating land registration in the West Bank must be stopped.*

“They are brainwashed people on the dark side. We will show them the light."
--Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, the Emirati businessman who bought 50% of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team, plans to turn the team's infamously right-wing anti-Arab racist fans from 'brain-washed' into believers in co-existence.**

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday December 8, 2020

Quote of the day:

“There is an educational lesson in this story – if a high school in Haifa is unable to bear an hour of dialogue on human rights, the students and parents would be better off to reflect on how Palestinians spent 53 years without human rights.”
--B’Tselem director, Hagai El-Ad, said after the renowned Re'ali High School in Haifa cancelled his lecture about human rights to be held today marking International Human Rights Day.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday December 7, 2020

Quote of the day:

"We wanted to see the reactions of the (Jewish) citizens. Everyone came to be photographed with us."
--Hamada Odeh, an Arab-Israel from the town of Kafr Qassem, who pranked Jewish Israelis in Tel-Aviv with his friends by dressing up like Gulf Arabs to see how they would react.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday December 6, 2020

Quote of the day:

“We cannot accept the imprecise, overreaching wording of the definition’s examples. We can’t accept it because we are witnessing how it is already being abused, indeed weaponized, to quash legitimate criticism and activism directed at Israeli government policies by tarnishing individuals and organizations as antisemitic.”
--Leaders of Americans for Peace Now explain to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations why APN can't sign on to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday December 3, 2020

Quote of the day:

“The officer admitted that he shot, why are they closing the case? There’s no justice in this world.”
—Wael Issa, a Palestinian father from E. Jerusalem, said after the Justice Ministry closed the case against the Border Police officer who shot his son, Malek, in the face.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday December 2, 2020

Quote of the day:

"...the assassination was intended to provoke the Iranians to a response that would lead to a joint Israeli-American bombing. Luckily for us, the Iranians in this case are the responsible adult."
--Maariv commentator Ran Edelist writes that the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was not intended to delay the race for the bomb.*

Breaking News:
Bill to go to elections passes preliminary reading
By joining the opposition in passing a bill to dissolve the Knesset, Kahol-Lavan voiced its dissatisfaction with Netanyahu, accusing the prime minister of putting his own personal interests ahead of those of the country. (Ynet and Israel Hayom)

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday December 1, 2020

Quote of the day:

"But what of preparing for the revenge that is undoubtedly sure to follow the brazen attack on Iran's chief nuclear scientist? Rather than brag about its success, what measures were taken to ensure the safety of Israel's embassies abroad? History has taught us that is where we are vulnerable. And what is the security situation for Jewish centers and synagogues around the world? Have we secured our airliners, our vessels at sea or the rest of our soft targets?"
--Following the assassination of Iran's chief nuclear scientist, which Israelis, Iranians and everyone else think that Israel was behind, MK Nahman Shai, a former IDF Spokesman, writes about Israeli hubris and condescension in its acts and its reactions to its own acts.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday November 30, 2020

Number of the day:

 68.
--The number of Palestinian bodies Israel amassed as bargaining chips.**