APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday August 30, 2013
Number of the day:
77.
--Percentage of Israeli public that opposes Israeli intervention in the case that the US does not attack Syria,
according to Maariv poll.**
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday August 30, 2013
Number of the day:
77.
--Percentage of Israeli public that opposes Israeli intervention in the case that the US does not attack Syria,
according to Maariv poll.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday August 29, 2013
Quote of the day:
"The soldiers exposed themselves to unnecessary danger..."
--IDF disciplines a group of soldiers serving in Hebron who crashed a Palestinian wedding party and danced with the guests to PSY.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday August 28, 2013
Quote of the day:
"They are talking about everything without a framework or plan to deal with the issues. In actuality, this
means they aren't speaking about anything."
--Noam Sheizaf writes a sharply worded Op-Ed in Maariv on the report that Israel only wants an interim agreement
with the Palestinians. **
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday August 27, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Israel's behavior conveys the following message: 'If you compel me, I will engage in peace talks.' In
other words, the only interest that guides the Israeli government is to avoid a colossal crisis with the
world."
--Uzi Baram writes in Haaretz how the right-wing description of 'peace' must be ignored and the real meaning of
peace must be adopted.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday August 26, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Due to the large number of discriminatory laws, what is needed now is a law to protect the Arab population from
the tyranny of the majority, because democracy in the broad sense means protecting the rights of the minority from
various types of racists."
--Haaretz commentator Oudeh Basharat writes about the how the so-called "Basic Law: Jewish Nation State"
boils down to being anti-Arab.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday August 25, 2013
Quote of the day:
"There's more than a pinch of irony in the fact that the Israeli regime, so supportive of suppressing the
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, is led by the 'Jewish Brotherhood.'"
--Sefi Rachlevsky writes in Haaretz that Israelis need to let go of racist talk of the "nature" of Arabs and instead "see to the cultural
circumstances, to expand the humanity of each person to include as many as possible."**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, August 23, 2013
Number of the day:
16 million.
Amount of shekels (=$4.5 million) the state will spend on developing a national park in the midst of the Arab E. Jerusalem neighborhood of
Silwan, known by some Jews as Ir David, the City of David.**