APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday November 4, 2020

Quote of the day:

"Trump created a new category of asymmetric negotiations and abolished the façade of the honest American broker, a false image that the U.S. had always tried hard to maintain. Trump’s rule was Israel first, and only after that, if he had any time and energy left, the Palestinians...Trump left Israel and the Palestinians with no diplomatic horizon. He left Israel with no chance to separate from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. And he left it with the occupation, which has dictated and continues to dictate the country’s character, laws and culture."
--Journalist Zvi Bar'el writes in an Op-Ed this morning.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Settlers called the Israeli military, which arrived at farmland in the West Bank and detained the Palestinian landowner and an Israeli human rights volunteer who were documenting the outdoor pool that the settlers had built on the property of the Palestinian landowner.**

Today, on the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, we at APN honor Rabin’s legacy by continuing to build the movement for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

APN’s President and CEO Hadar Susskind said: “Yitzhak Rabin was a soldier and a general who fought for his country in a time of conflict. But his legacy is that of a man who recognized the legitimate national aspirations of the Palestinian people, who chose peace over war, who chose to extend his hand to those who had been his enemies, and who ultimately lost his life in the pursuit of peace. 

As we honor that legacy, we remind supporters of Israeli-Palestinian peace worldwide that the conflict between the two peoples is an existential threat to both, that it must and can be resolved, and that determined leadership such as Rabin’s is necessary for progress toward resolution.

Together with our Israeli colleagues at Israel’s Peace Now movement, APN is determined to help achieve Rabin’s goal of Israeli-Palestinian peace and reconciliation.

Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday November 3, 2020 

You Must Be Kidding: 
״Instead of dealing with the importance of this day and how to prevent further political assassinations - most of the lesson plans in general deal with comparing the subject to the corona epidemic. With all due respect, there is a very significant difference between the two subjects.״
--A teacher from central Israel objected to the decision of the Education Ministry to teach school children about the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by comparing it to the corona epidemic.**

APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday November 2, 2020

Quote of the day:

“Police investigate every case of violence regardless of the identity of the perpetrator.”
--Israel Acting Commissioner of Police Moti Cohen insisted that the police do not discriminate between Arab and Jewish citizens in murder investigations. A day earlier, a report revealed that police have solved only 22% of the murder cases in Arab-Israeli communities this year as opposed to 53% of the murders in Jewish communities.*

Recording of the APN Webinar from Friday, November 6, with APN President and CEO Hadar Susskind and two expert voices:

Mira Resnick, Senior Professional Staff Member for the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 

Ilan Goldenberg, Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security

LISTEN

Tuesday's election will have tremendous impact on our country and our world. This of course includes our work striving for peace for Israel and Palestine. Who sits in the White House, and the team of people who work for that person, will define the framework in which our work is done. In addition to that, which parties control the House and the Senate, and which elected officials serve as leaders, committee chairs and champions, will be critically important.

APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday, November 1, 2020

Quote of the day:

"It seems that even 25 years after the assassination, nothing seems to have changed. Incitement is the same incitement and the one who incited is the same one who incites."
--Peace Now tells Maariv after supporters of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vandalized a Peace Now stand ahead of the Saturday night protest march organized by the movement to mark the 25th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.*

1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters
2. Hearings & Markups
3. On the Record

Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday October 29, 2020

Quote of the day::""The country is split like the Red Sea between two camps, and the hatred is simmering underfoot."
--President Reuven Rivlin said in a speech today at a memorial event for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 25th anniver:"sary of his assassination.*

Numbers of the day:
62:38
--Percentage of left-wing Israelis vs. right-wing Israelis who fear that another political assassination will take place in Israel.**

APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday October 28, 2020

Quotes of the day:

"You made our country bigger."
--'Israel Hayom' quotes 12-year-old Rachel, who wrote in 1967 to then IDF chief of staff, Yitzhak Rabin, after the conquering of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.*

"Schoolchildren returning from ceremonies in memory of Rabin say that by no means should a prime minister be assassinated - but in the same breath they point out that parts of the homeland must also not be returned.”
--Uzi Baram writes in Haaretz+ that Yitzhak Rabin's legacy of giving up land to make peace with the Palestinians is not in the consensus.**