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News Nosh 11.12.14

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday November 12, 2014

Quote of the day:
"Netanyahu’s threatening finger isn’t pointed at the right-wing “price tag” vandals, or at the rioters who attacked soldiers and policemen in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, or even at Yigal Amir, the man who assassinated former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin."
--Haaretz Middle East analyst Zvi Bar'el is outraged by the Israeli Prime Minister's threat to revoke the citizenship of Arab citizens of Israel.**

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News Nosh 11.11.14

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday November 11, 2014

Quote of the day:
"There is a group of people for whom human rights are just for Jewish Orthodox rituals, and they are willing to draw us all into a blood bath in the name of those human rights..."
--Yedioth commentator Gideon Eshet discusses how praying on the Temple Mount has been championed by right-wing Jews as a human right of freedom to worship, but those same people don't believe others have a right to worship their way - such as Reform Jews.**

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News Nosh 11.10.14

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday November 10, 2014

Quote of the day:
"There's one Jew who shot a prime minister. He was neutralized without being shot to death."
--Arab MK Ahmed Tibi contrasting the capture of the murderer of slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin with the shooting of Arab citizen Kheir Al-din Hamdan by police.**

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News Nosh 11.09.14

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday November 9, 2014

Quote of the day:
“This is the place to call on the esteemed public to stop this incitement, from here a call is heard, forbidding any Jews from going up to the Temple Mount – From here a call is heard to stop this so that the blood of the People of Israel may stop being spilled.” 
--Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef also slammed the right-wing rabbis who encouraged Jews to pray at the Temple Mount, and reminded all that it is punishable by death through the hands of heaven.**

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News Nosh 11.06.14

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday November 6, 2014

Quote of the day:
 "At least during the war there was a siren."
--Jewish resident of Jerusalem waiting in fear at a light rail stop in the capital.**

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News Nosh 11.05.14

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday November 5, 2014

Quote of the day:
"One of the most painful problems we have has a name...It is the combination of the two words 'yehiyeh biseder' ('it'll be alright'). The combination of these words is intolerable. Behind these two words is hidden everything that is not 'alright': arrogance and an exaggerated sense of self-confidence."
--Excerpt from slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's famous 'It'll be Okay' speech.** 

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News Nosh 11.04.14

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday November 4, 2014

Quote of the day:
"I don’t want to call it a phenomenon, but three soldiers committing suicide after Operation Protective Edge is a significant event." 
--Col. Keren Ginat, director of the army’s mental-health department, speaks to a Knesset subcommittee on the mental health treatment of Israeli soldiers following the operation.**

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News Nosh 11.03.14

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday November 3, 2014

Quote of the day:
"This is not a question of left or right. What we have here is an alternative option for resolving the conflict that is not based solely only on bilateral negotiations with the Palestinians, which have failed time and again… We expect a show of courageous initiative and leadership from you. Lead – and we will stand behind you."
--From letter written to Israeli Prime MInister by 105 retired and reservist officers calling for broader negotiations with the entire region.*

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News Nosh 11.02.14

APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday November 2, 2014
 

Quote of the day:

“Is the Jewish character of Israel dependent on the signature of a Palestinian leader? Of course not. The Jewish character of the state depends on us.”
--Speaking at the Rabin memorial, Shimon Peres criticized the demand by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state for there to be peace.**

 

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News Nosh 10.31.14

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.**

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