APN's daily news review from Israel

Note:
News Nosh will from now on refer to what is commonly called ‘ISIS’ or the ‘Islamic State’ as ‘Daesh.’ Here's why. However, if a newspaper specifically used ISIS, that usage will not be changed.
 

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News Summary:
The Daesh attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people were the story of the day filling the pages of the Hebrew newspapers. Also in the news, a shooting attack in the West Bank kills a settler father and son and some 10,000 Israelis demonstrated against the government’s gas monopoly agreement. Barely mentioned in the news was that two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with Israeli forces Friday and another died of his wounds.
 
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Israel passed intel to France about the Paris attacks. The Israeli commentators were divided over whether to take a war-like stance against Daesh or to act differently. Some far right-wing commentators likened the attacks in Paris to the attacks on Israeli by Palestinian youth. Ahead of the protest against the natural gas deal Saturday night , demonstrators opened with a minute of silence to honor the Paris victims. Channel 2 News reported that the Bataclan theater where many people were killed, was until recently under Jewish ownership, for which it received death threats over the years. One of the former owners, Joel Tuitto, recently moved to Israel. Yedioth/Ynet interviewed Jews living in Paris, who described the difficult feelings and emotions they experienced during and after the attacks. The Muslim world denounced the Paris attacks, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a Hamas spokesman and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who offered condolences to the victims ‎ and vowed retaliation against Daesh. 

Israel Hayom noted that Abbas did not denounce the attack killing two West Bank settlers driving in the in southern Hebron Hills Friday afternoon. The children in the car were not killed, but one was wounded. The IDF put Palestinians living in the Hebron district under lockdown as Israeli forces searched for the gunman. Maan reported that Palestinian factions called for joint operations after the shooting attack. Military wings of the Fatah movement said the attack was a natural response to Israeli crimes and that Palestinians have the right to resist the occupation.
 
Also on Friday, two Palestinians were shot and killed in clashes with Israeli forces. Hassan Jihad al-Baw, 23, was shot in the heart on Friday in the town of Halhul and Lafi Yusif Awad, 22, was shot and killed by Israeli forces during clashes in the town of Budrus. The Israeli army said he attempted to grab a soldier's weapon, the Palestinians say he was shot in the back. Thousands attended their funerals. 

A third person from the Shalaldah family died Friday. Issa Shalaldah, 22, succumbed to injuries after being shot by Israeli forces during clashes that broke out in the village of Sair following the funeral of Abdullah Shalaldah, 28, who was killed by undercover Israeli forces while visiting his cousin, Azzam Azmi Shalaldah, 20, in a hospital. Abdulllah Shalaldah, 28, was shot at least three times in the head and upper body.

A total of 111 Palestinians were shot by IDF forces Friday during West Bank and Gaza demonstrations, Maan reported.
 

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To understand what 'to neutralize' means, look at this broken Palestinian man
A young Palestinian participates in a tumultuous demonstration, Israeli undercover men knock him to the ground and shoot him point-blank. The result: Mohammed Ziada, 19, is partly paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. (Gideon Levy, Haaretz+) 
'We will stay like our olives': A battle over trees this harvest 
“We’ve been harvesting olives for a long time, it’s a special demonstration of the culture and history of Palestinians, and the whole family participates,” says Hiyam Mousa as she picks this year’s harvest from the trees that remain. Some have been destroyed due to the construction of a settler bypass road and the rest is under threat of being confiscated. Israeli watchdog Kerem Navot released a report in September reporting that approximately one third of West Bank land is inaccessible to Palestinians, and of the land that is available, farmers have to contend with burgeoning settler violence. (Megan Hanna, Maan)
The never-ending story of Israel’s voice of peace
In the '70s' Abie Nathan launched a legendary pirate radio station. A documentary at New York’s Other Israel Film Festival explores his lasting influence on politics. (Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua, Haaretz+)

Commentary/Analysis:

10 Commenters on the Paris Terror Attacks I Can Do Without (Chemi Shalev, Haaretz+) Those who equate Palestine with ISIS to erase the occupation, and those who blame Palestine for ISIS to erase Israel.
Walking to their death: The new child terrorists (Ronni Shaked, Yedioth/Ynet) Palestinian children go out to stab their Jewish victims thinking they are about to die, just like the terrorists of the second intifada who blew themselves up on buses and in markets; the significant difference is in their source of motivation.
Before the Israeli Right Rejoices Over Paris (Gideon Levy, Haaretz+) The Israeli right will say: We told you so. That is how the Palestinians are, that is how the Muslims are - bloodthirsty animals. The conclusion: There is no partner. This is of course a propagandist house of cards.
SIS first - everything else will have to wait (Nahum Barnea, Yedioth/Ynet) The mega-attack in Paris changes, in the short run, the nature of the international debate over Syria's future. The West wanted to have it both ways: Destroy the Islamic State and topple Assad's regime. Now, it must reconsider its list of priorities.
The Settlement Enterprise Has Failed (Shaul Arieli, Haaretz+) Jews comprise only 13.5 percent of the West Bank’s population and 4 percent of the land there, meaning the settlers have failed to create the appropriate conditions for annexing the West Bank. 
Palestinian crime and punishment (Yaakov Amidror, Israel Hayom) Would-be Palestinian terrorists, whose culture celebrates death, are undeterred by the slim chance they have of surviving the attacks they carry out. The deterrence equation should be changed, but not by introducing capital punishment.
There is no such thing as 'life by the sword' (Kobi Richter, Yedioth/Ynet) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a two-edged sword; we will both be eaten by the sword, unless we talk to each other. The key is ending the occupation. 
Baby Boom: young people from both sides are in despair (Alon Ben-David, Maariv) Despair is the lot of young people on both sides. While Palestinians see themselves as part of the adventure of violence that is sweeping the Middle East and so they go out to attack, Israel's younger generation, which is working and contributing, feels cheated and lacking leadership.
Netanyahu Cannot Take Back 'Arab Droves' Remark (Rogel Alpher, Haaretz+) The PM apologized for his Election Day video in Washington, but nothing in that clip was improvised: It was specifically designed to make Israelis hear 'war' without saying it. 
Sinai plane crash: Why is Putin so silent? (Efraim Halevy, Yedioth/Ynet) The Russian president is not afraid of making decisions and taking risks. If he is stalling now, it means that complicated aspects require him to consider his moves before deciding on a response. 
Israeli media is buying what Netanyahu is selling (Uri Misgav, Haaretz+) Power struggles among local media are nothing more than business disputes. There is no ideological clash here. At most, there's just disagreement over nuances.
Response to Paris Attacks Mustn't Be Dictated by Grief and Anger (Haaretz Editorial) Friday's events were an attack on civilization itself, but harm caused by emotional reactions outweighs the benefits. This applies not only to states being
Welcome to World War Three (Ron Ben-Yishai, Ynet) The Paris attack is directly tied to events in Syria and Iraq; this was not an intelligence failure but rather the failure of the West to see itself as in a total war vs. radical Islam.
I thought everyone was exaggerating, but then I visited the Knesset (Nehemia Shtrasler, Haaretz+) It was interesting to see how the lawmakers behave when they talk so about taking care of the weak, unemployed, laid off, while at the same time they are dealing with their own personal salaries.
The Futile Moral Satisfaction of Europe’s Settlement Label Gesture (Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz+) Formalistic excuses for the labeling are all very well, but this is about politics — and Israel is both favored and discriminated against at the same time. 
Calm and resolve in the face of terror (John-Michael Kibrick, Ynet) Tragedy in Paris is the time for mourning, not extreme action that will lead the West into a global assault against an undefined enemy.
When Netanyahu cleared his throat: The question that touched the most sensitive nerve of Israeli policy (Udi Segal, Maariv) One fundamental question addressed to him continued to harass the Prime Minister's visit to the Center for American Progress. Even if he didn’t admit it, he also knows: Israel has no alternative plan. The alternative plan is to continue the status quo.
Were all Palestinians killed in Hebron recently really a threat to soldiers? (Amira Hass, Haaretz+) There are two versions to the recent spate of killings at Hebron checkpoints: IDF says Palestinians attacked them with knives and were shot, while Palestinians question whether the people even had knives at all. Haaretz examines the evidence. 
Be wise: About the president who knew to build bridges with our neighbors (Hila Korach, Maariv) (Recently passed away former president) Yitzhak Navon could speak Arabic and make connections with the country's immediate surroundings, that is something that should be a trivial matter in Israel, (but) it is a matter that for some reason we have tried to ignore and is the tragedy of all of us.
International community must help shatter distinctions between the two Israels (Carolina Landsmann, Haaretz+) In their heart of hearts, Israelis believe that the answer to the question of who they really are is determined by, and only by, what happens within the 1967 Green Line. 
Netanyahu and Obama's blind date (Orly Azoulay, Yedioth/Ynet) The prime minister came out of his meeting with the American president this week glowing, and said it was one of their best ever; officials in the White House were a bit more even-tempered.
Netanyahu favors unilateral steps in the West Bank? Israelis know better than to believe him (Yossi Verter, Haaretz+) Still, it is not unlikely that the prime minister's verbal oscillations are part of a multi-stage scheme to prepare the ground for the co-option of Zionist Union into the government. 
Martin Indyk's latest low (Ruthie Blum, Israel Hayom) Indyk has always believed that an accord is possible between Israel and the Palestinians if the "two sides" would only trust one another.
A red flag before another political murder (Yoaz Hendel, Yedioth/Ynet) After this murder that might happen, the crisis between Jews and Arabs has the potential to turn into an all-out war. That's what happens in a country that has yet to fully integrate its Arab minority and chaos reigns supreme. 
Joint pain, joint war (MK Tzipi Livni, Maariv) MK Tzipi Livni in a special column following the attacks in Paris: shock, grief and pain now connect the free world. Everyone has to choose whether he is on the side of terrorism - its organizations, its names and its actions - or on the side fighting it. There is no middle 
From Zion shall go forth Torah: Israel's internal discourse is responsible for the labeling of settlement products (Kalman Libskind, Maariv) For years, diligently and persistently, "moderate" leftists turned all the settlers into a violent herd that violently clashes with the miserable Palestinians. So what exactly do you expect from the Europeans now? And also: the method of Nahum Barnea, the Israel Prize laureate.
EU's labeling policy is not anti-Semitism, but
 a warning (Friday Haaretz Editorial) The government is impervious to warnings from friendly countries, which feel that Israel is losing its place among them.
WATCH: New Israel Fund President Talia Sasson: We are the Israeli government’s real opposition (Talia Sasson, Haaretz) The head of the liberal NGO explains why the right wing is so eager to paint her group as anti-Israel; adds: it's the democratic right of Israeli NGOs to receive foreign funding. 

'It's no accident that African refugees are called infiltrators'
Prof. Gideon Kunda, founder of a community education center for migrant workers, felt that going to the polls every four years or demonstrating about cottage cheese isn’t enough to effect change. So he left his armchair and went out into the field. (Interviewed by Ayelett Shani in Haaretz+)
And the terminology changed, too: from “refugee” or “asylum seeker” to “infiltrator.”
"'Refugee' is both a practical word and a formal definition. Most of them were not granted refugee status. In our system, a person who fled [his homeland] is a refugee, but in order to avoid granting them refugee rights, the categorization that took root is “asylum seekers.” At a certain stage that too changed – I saw it happen before my eyes. There was a program on Channel 2 in which someone called them “infiltrators,” and the next day Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a remark about the “Eritrean infiltrators.” The term took root very quickly. “Infiltrator” is a very loaded word, and it was not chosen by accident. It’s part of our collective memory, going back to the early period of the state, to Ma’aleh Akrabim [a 1954 attack on a bus in the Negev in which 11 Israelis were shot dead by cross-border marauders] and to Palestinians who tried to return to their land."
 
Squeezed Out by the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The ninth Other Israel Film Festival in New York finds itself boycotted by both right-wingers and Palestinians, says Isaac Zablocki, the director of film programs of the Film Festival. (Interviewed by Neta Alexander in Haaretz+)

 

Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.