APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday March 11, 2016
Quote of the day:
“Bibi, you have to understand something. I’m the African American son of a single mother, and I live here,
in this house. I live in the White House. I managed to get elected president of the United States. You think I
don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I do.”
--US President Barack Obama accused Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of acting arrogantly toward him.
--US President Barack Obama accused Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of acting arrogantly toward him.
Front Page:
Haaretz
- Under the sponsorship of the state, the right-wing is accelerating the Judaization of Silwan (in E. Jerusalem)
- The days of President Trump // Chemi Shalev
- Changing the results and methodical manipulation in pollution tests at factories and gasoline tanks
- Following Haaretz probe, 112-year-old Israel Krystal, from Haifa, was recorded in Guiness Book of World Records
- Balad MKs don’t apologize or suck up – an angry interview
- Maybe everything is because of Ariel Sharon’s mother // Uri Avnery
Yedioth Ahronoth
- “Netanyahu is scared and politically paralyzed” – US President Barack Obama in interview with Yedioth’s Orly Azoulay
- Imaginary scenario if the situation were reversed: Revolving doors – Herzog is Prime Minister and Netanyahu is head of Opposition // Nehama Dweik
- Project Palestine // Nahum Barnea
- Ground exercises // Sima Kadmon
- Brig. Gen. Buchris won’t be head of IDF Operations
- (Culture Minister) Miri (Regev) has no mercy - Interview
- Good story – Col Shai Siman-Tov, one of the most badly injured in Operation Protective Edge, tells about the battle of his life: to stand again on his feet
- In the name of the son – Simcha Goldin in a sharp Op-Ed: Bring back (from Gaza) the body of my son
Maariv Weekend (Hebrew links only)
- Family of terrorist from Jerusalem was expelled
- The dream and the nightmare // Ben Caspit
- The principle of continuation // Alon Ben-David
- There is no future // Udi Segal
- The fourth way // Caroline Glick
- “(Brig. Gen.) Buchris will fight till the last drop of blood” – The battle of his life (over rape accusations)
- The assassination that didn’t happen – This is how the opportunity to hit the Hezbollah brass was missed when Israel pulled out of Lebanon
- Obama: Netanyahu acted patronizingly towards me
- “How crappy, I’m going to die” – The last words of Roey Kaser, when he understood that the 69 bags of cocaine he swallowed were leaking
- Being Moroccan: Naftali Ben-Simon returns to the traumas of the melting pot
Israel Hayom
- Chief of Staff cancelled the appointment of Brig. Gen. Buchris as head of IDF Operations
- The war against Palestinians in Israel with permits: 250 detained
- Obama and the Middle East – only protocol // Boaz Bismuth
- “Significant legal errors in Meni Naftali’s court case ruling”
- Glass ceiling: Why do so few women reach top positions in IDF
- Against all odds: The amazing rehab of Ofir Cohen, who was critically wounded in Operation Protective Edge
- Stopping the holes in the fence: Wave of attacks raised again the awareness of the problem of Palestinians in Israel without permits
News Summary:
The IDF Chief of Staff rescinded the promotion of the general accused of rape, Israel expelled from E. Jerusalem to the West Bank the family of the Palestinian who shot and injured two Border Police and arrested over 200 Palestinians living and working in Israel illegally and US President Barack Obama revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu acted patronizingly toward him making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers.
Last night, the Israeli security cabinet met (Maariv) after a string of attacks this week. According to a poll in Maariv, 62% of Israelis feel unsafe and 79% feel the government are unhappy with the government’s treatment of the wave of Palestinian violence. The poll found that 73% of Israelis support expelling the families of Palestinian attackers to Gaza or to Syria (Maariv). Indeed, last night Israel expelled from E. Jerusalem the four brothers of the Palestinian who shot and injured two Border Police this week, and arrested his father.
US President Obama accused Netanyahu of acting arrogantly towards him. Speaking to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama said Netanyahu spoke in an arrogant manner and tried to shift discussion from the peace process to other issues.
Also in the online news: the Israeli police are investigating what appears to be a police extra-judicial killing of the Jaffa attacker, who stabbed to death a US citizen and injured 12 others. A video shows the attacker, Bashar Masalha, running away and then shot and lying injured on the ground, and then a policeman is seen and someone is heard encouraging him to shoot at him again and he does. Another voice is heard saying, “(He's) lying there neutralized, why shoot for no reason?” (Also Haaretz+ and Maariv)
And according to a report, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected a US peace initiative, offered by US Vice President Joe Biden. The plan includes designating East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state and halting settlement construction for the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and giving up the right of return.
Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.