1. Bills, Resolutions, & Letters
2. Hearings &
Markups
3. On the Record
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APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday July 30, 2020
"God help our democracy if people start to kill each other."
-- President Reuven Rivlin said in response to the latest assault by right-wingers against anti-Netanyahu
demonstrators.*
You Must Be Kidding:
“This was about two groups who provoked each other. I don’t know who started and who hit
back.”
--Despite the numerous videos showing right-wingers brutally assaulting anti-Netanyahu demonstrators in Tel-Aviv on
Tuesday, Magistrate Court Judge Anat Yahav decided to release to house arrest two of the men suspected of
assault.**
Michael Sfard's recent legal opinion, commissioned by the Israeli human
rights organization Yesh Din, concluded that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is a form of
apartheid, constituting a crime according to international law.
Listen to APN's Webinar with Michael Sfard from August 10, 2020:
Michael Sfard is an Israeli attorney who represents various Israeli and Palestinian human rights and peace organizations, movements, and activists. He is an expert in international humanitarian law and international human rights law. He was educated at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at University College in London.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday July 29, 2020
Quote of the day:
“People are scared to come to protests because of this. It’s frightening to think that next time the
attackers might use a knife.”
--Dor Segal, an eyewitness of the Tuesday night attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters by groups of young men wearing
black.*
On Tisha B'Av, the "saddest day of the Jewish calendar,"
our tradition dictates that we mourn the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem and consider the cause of their
destruction. Although we haven't known a Judaism that revolves around a Temple for centuries, we take
this day every year to remember a time when the center of gravity of the Jewish people was brutally destroyed.
This act of painful remembrance also serves as a difficult exercise in empathy: putting ourselves in the shoes
of our ancestors to understand our lost past.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday July 28, 2020
You Must Be Kidding:
"A siege on the Arabs and not on the Jews."
--Words spray-painted by settlers on the walls of a mosque in a West Bank village before they set it
ablaze.*
APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday July 27, 2020
Quote of the day:
“Until now, we dealt with police violence, which is terrible in and of itself. Now the messages of
incitement and violence brought citizens to stab a demonstrator in the neck. This could have ended much worse. This
could have ended like Emil Greenzweig. Like Yitzhak Rabin. The incitement must end.”
--Labor Party MK Merav Michaeli said following attacks on demonstrators protesting against Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"I also sometimes ask myself in the middle of the night why is the traffic light red."
--Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's response to question about why there are no female lawmakers left in
the downsized corona cabinet.**
APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday July 26, 2020
You Must Be Kidding:
Police shot water cannons at heads of people demonstrating against Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu across from his residence.*
Quotes of the Day:
“When I got up. I got another jet [of water] in the back. I tried to hide but they were spraying at us from
everywhere. It was a battlefield. They didn’t attempt to disperse us, but rather to scare us from demonstrating
again.”
--Yonatan Kimmel, who came to Jerusalem to demonstrate against Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, was hit
by police with a water jet to his head, puncturing his eardrum, knocking him down, cutting his head and bruising
him all over his face and body.*
"I'm the one who was proud to defend. I'm the one who was brainwashed. I'm the one who traveled with you in
the big world, the one who went with you to demonstrations and I'm also the one who is unable to explain to my
children why I did it. You won’t remember me. I don’t matter to you. Only you are important to you. So guess what?
Yesterday I came to visit you, yes, yes, at Balfour. I am the one who, if you wake him up in the middle of the
night, will know in 37 seconds to how to reach every house in the area with my eyes closed. I was the one who heard
the voices of despair of our people yesterday in both the left-wing demonstration and the right-wing demonstration
on the other side of the street. I was the one who was beaten by policemen yesterday just because I came to
exercise the basic democratic right in Jerusalem. I am the one who was hit by water with unreasonable force from an
extreme means of dispersing demonstrations (water cannon) simply because the police…does not have the capacity for
restraint.”
--Nir Aden, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's former Shin Bet personal security guard, wrote in a
Facebook post that went viral.**
1. Bills, Resolutions, & Letters
2. FY21 SFOPS —
House
3. FY21 NDAA – House
4. FY21 NDAA –
Senate
5. FY21 Defense Approps – House
6. Hearings
& Markups
7. On the Record
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