APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday May 12, 2021


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Quote of the day:

"How you rejoiced over peace with the Emirates, how you internalized Netanyahu's status quo doctrine vis-à-vis the Palestinians, and how you suppressed the word 'occupation.' You are the only ones who are surprised by this escalation."
--Dr. Omer Einav writes in Yedioth Hebrew that you can't ignore the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It must be resolved.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday May 11, 2021

Quote of the day:

"Jerusalem Day is a national day of mourning. It’s the day when Israeli society marks the conquest of East Jerusalem. Not its liberation. Not its unification with the western part of the city. Not its freedom. The Palestinians living in Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah and Shoafat did not go from slavery to freedom at the end of the Six-Day War. They, along with all of East Jerusalem, were conquered and...have been living under a violent occupation that deprives, excludes and humiliates them."
--Rogel Alpher writes in Haaretz about the meaning of Jerusalem Day, which right-wing religious Jews attempted to celebrate yesterday, but for once, were thwarted.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday May 6, 2021
 

Quote of the day:

“Sadly, despite Israel’s image as a state that maintains a proper and professional legal system, the reality paints a different picture – harsh, discriminatory, and outrageous."
--180 Israeli intellectuals and scientists warn the International Criminal Court at The Hague not to rely on Israel to probe war crimes against the Palestinians, accusing the Israeli enforcement and security agencies of allowing ongoing acts of moral injustice and prima facie war crimes.*

Breaking News:
Two days after an Israeli attack in Syria, an Israeli helicopter hits Hezbollah outpost in Syrian Golan (Israel Hayom, Ynet, Maariv and Haaretz+)

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday May 5, 2021

Quote of the day:

"More than 80% of Arab society is Muslim, and the Druze and Christian minorities also respect the month of Ramadan and recognize it as part of the collective Arab culture. But it’s not known among the Jews. Why is this information not taught in the education system? Why does a child who grew up in the country alongside us not know what we do?"
--Saja Khilani writes in Ynet Hebrew.*

Breaking News:
Israel Struck Near Latakia Overnight, Syria TV Reports
Israeli missiles targeted Haffeh and Masyaf and struck a civilian plastic warehouse among other locations, state TV says. (Haaretz)

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday April 29, 2021

Quote of the day:

"I would like to say: no matter what the results of the initial and hesitant contact that took place between a senior right-wing representative and a high-ranking member of Arab politics, the act of dialogue between them does matter."
Yedioth commentator Meirav Betito said after the meeting between far-right-wing Jewish party chairman Naftali Bennett and Islamist Muslim party chairman Mansour Abbas.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday April 27, 2021
 

Quote of the day:

“You don’t know what’s going on? When the people were given permission? Based on which agreements and for how long? How can it be that the state gives land to a person and there are no agreements and they don’t know for how long, especially when it’s not state land? Whoever heard of such a thing?”
—Israel’s High Court Justice Esther Hayut's reaction when to the state’s lawyer after the state couldn’t explain the conditions under which it had allowed Israeli settlers to use privately-owned Palestinian land.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday April 26, 2021

Quote of the day:

“In Charlottesville they shouted 'Jews will not replace us,' and here the Jews shouted 'Death to Arabs,' but in both cases the demonstrators had clear links to the regime."
—Haaretz+ commentator Iris Leal compares the US alt-right groups that Trump supported with the Israeli extreme right anti-Arab activists, who attacked dozens of Palestinians in E. Jerusalem Thursday night and have continued to do so since.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday April 22, 2021

You Must Be Kidding: 
An Israeli settlement university in the West Bank is giving students academic credit for volunteering at illegal Israeli settlement outposts, many of which were established on privately-owned Palestinian land.**

Breaking News:
Syrian Anti-aircraft Missile Exploded in Southern Israel, IDF Struck Near Damascus
Syrian missile fired at an IAF jet, missed its target and landed near Dimona and set off air raid sirens near the country's top-secret nuclear reactor. And Israeli interceptor was not activated to shoot it down, Maariv reported. In Tehran, some claimed it was a surface-to-surface missile, not a surface-to-air missile as reported in Israel. No group has taken responsibility for the launch, which could be Iran's revenge on Israel for Natanz sabotage attack. Israel attacked near Damascus afterward. Syria reported that one officer was killed and three soldiers were injured. (Haaretz+, Maariv, Ynet and Israel Hayom)

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday April 19, 2021
 

Quote of the day:

“If I had told you five years ago that three TV stations would stop their newscast to broadcast a speech by an Arab politician saying what he thinks about the composition of the coalition in Israel, you would have said I was joking.”
—Arab-Israeli activist and lawyer Ameer Fakhoury speaks about how for the first time,large parts of the Jewish population can distinguish between the different elements of the so-called Arab parties, and are even willing to accept some of them as partners in running the state.*

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday April 13, 2021

 

Quote of the day:

“This is the moment I’ve been waiting for.”
—Anti-Arab 'Religious Zionism' party MK Itamar Ben-Gvir said when Arab and Jewish left-wing members of Knesset walked out when he stepped to the podium to speak. Ben-Gvir is a disciple of anti-Arab bigot Rabbi Meir Kahane.*