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News Nosh 8.1.17

by APN 08/01/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding #1: 
The directors of a Jewish overnight camp in the Pacific Northwest thought it might be nice to welcome their Palestinian guests by flying the Palestinian flag. Little were they prepared for the backlash to their gesture of goodwill.**

You Must Be Kidding #2: 
Yesterday, the average number of racist remarks by Israelis on Internet social networks was was 563 per hour. The Hatred Report was just released.***
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News Nosh 7.31.17

by APN 07/31/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday, July 31, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"..The feeling that beats among most Israelis is that a terrorist's sentence is death, period. It does not matter when, it does not matter how, it does not matter why. An Arab who stabbed a soldier should die, even if that is not exactly according to the rules, morals, or orders of the IDF...In this world, which is not perfect, a decent defense minister who raises a black flag over this deed on the moral level is erased from the political map. In this world, a prime minister who is supposed to chart the way, aligns himself with the masses and abandons the IDF, its commanders and fighters alone in the public arena."
--From the incisive Op-Ed by senior Maariv political commentator, Ben Caspit, following the rejection of the appeal of the soldier Elor Azaria, 21, who executed an incapacitated Palestinian assailant, Abed al-Fatah al-Sharif, 21.*
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News Nosh 7.28.17

by APN 07/28/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 28, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"In Amman, King Abdullah sat and boiled. But Netanyahu wasn’t content with just the photo with the security guard. He also Tweeted, in Hebrew and in Arabic. He didn’t just poke his most important ally in the Middle East a finger in the eye, he also punched a fist in his stomach.”
-Senior Maariv political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's warm embrace of the Israeli security guard who killed two Jordanians, one who allegedly attacked the guard.*
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News Nosh 7.27.17

by APN 07/27/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 28, 2017
 
Quote of the Day #1:
"When I heard that the terrorist remained alive, it did me in. Because in the next deal, they'll release him. Afterward, I understood that 'A.' did the right thing."
--Shmuel Salomon, whose father, brother and sister were murdered by a Palestinian teen in Halamish settlement. 'A.', a neighbor serving in the army, shot and injured the attacker, stopping him, but A. did not execute him.* A. is expected to receive an IDF hero's medal.*

Quote of the Day #2:
"Now it turns out that what happened in Jordan was not a (terror) attack, but a dispute that boiled over into a shooting incident, in which in the end, the (Israeli) guard shot and killed two Jordanians - and not the attacker who held the screwdriver and tried to stab him. That is not how an incident like that is supposed to end. The closeness of the two incidents, and the political and public reaction, sharpen the question over who is really fit to be called a hero.”
--Yedioth military analyst Yossi Yehoshua writes why the IDF will give A. a hero's medal.*
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News Nosh 7.26.17

by APN 07/26/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday July 26, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"A state that maintains democracy and whose citizens have equal rights does not need, out of a lack of self-confidence, to define itself over and over again. The Right is the most insecure when it comes to the future of the State of Israel. You are starting a fire here that will tear this country to shreds. When I talk about fascism, this is a classic example. When my father stood at a rally at the U.N. against the resolution that ruled that Zionism is racism, he emphasized that the State of Israel is a country with equal rights for all. You, with this basic law, are unwilling to establish equal rights between Jews and Arabs. You need this paper and to play with nuances, to humiliate, to create division instead of integration."
--Opposition leader, MK Isaac Herzog, said ahead of the launch by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of discussions by the new committee established to debate the controversial Jewish nation-state law.**
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News Nosh 7.25.17

by APN 07/25/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday July 25, 2017
 
Quote of the Day #1:
“I will never justify the murder of innocent people in their homes. Or how a mother can praise her murderous son. But retaliating just leads to more violence. Coming here can lead to something better. I’m not sure what – I don’t have concrete answers. But I know that I had to be here, because women can create something different.”
--Leah, a 34-year-old Jewish-Israeli teacher, who came from the Galilee to the Jewish-Arab rally of the Women Wage Peace group Sunday night.*

Quote of the Day #2:
"Now we're back at the starting point, just in worse shape, with rotten egg on our faces."
-Senior Maariv political commentator Ben Caspit in a biting Op-Ed.**
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News Nosh 7.24.17

by APN 07/24/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 24, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"People told him, 'Why didn't you finish him off?' Going into the house and shooting him in the head is another case of Elor Azaria. We are not murderers, we are only defenders."
--Rachel Maoz, mother of the soldier who shot through the window and injured the Palestinian who murdered three people, rejected calls that her son should have executed the murderer.*

Breaking News:
Palestinian stabs Arab Israeli bus driver in Israel, says he 'did it for Al-Aqsa'
32-year-old man stabbed and moderately-to-severely wounded by 21-year-old West Bank Palestinian; victim evacuated for treatment; terrorist apprehended by police. (Ynet and Israel Hayom)

Israeli Embassy guard kills 2 Jordanians while being attacked with screwdriver
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak with Jordan's King Abdullah in bid to avert burgeoning diplomatic crisis • Jordan refuses to allow Israeli Embassy guard, who was attacked by carpenter(s) with screwdriver at an embassy staff apartment, to leave for Israel, demanding to question him. (Israel Hayom, Haaretz)
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News Nosh 7.23.17

by APN 07/23/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 23, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“The writing wasn’t on the wall – it was on the table, in every internal discussion, it was in the mouths of the experts, the long-timers of the Shin Bet and the police, it was also here, on the pages of the newspaper.”
--Senior Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea writes that the murder Friday night of three Israeli family members in a West Bank settlement could have been avoided had Israel not decided Friday morning to leave the metal detectors in place on the Temple Mount.**
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News Nosh 7.21.17

by APN 07/21/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday July 21, 2017
 
Number of the day:
48.
--Percentage of Israelis who think Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is corrupt, according to poll published today in Maariv. Nevertheless, the Likud still leads the Knesset, but drops to 24 mandates, compared to the 30 it received in elections.
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News Nosh 7.20.17

by APN 07/20/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 20, 2017

Quote of the day:
"(East Jerusalem includes) villages with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Police do not enter them, and neither does the Education Minister."
--The response of MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) following the passing in a first reading of a bill to make it harder to divide Jerusalem for a future Palestinian state. Livni was referring to right-wing MK Naftali Bennett who initially proposed the bill.*
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