APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday July 23, 2020
You Must Be Kidding:
Israel’s Civil Administration on Tuesday tore down a building at the entrance to Hebron that Palestinians
say was meant to serve as a center for coronavirus testing and quarantine.**
APN's daily news review from IsraelTuesday July 21, 2020
You Must Be Kidding: “Traitor, leftee, a big
zero."
--What Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's supporters called former IDF deputy chief of staff, Yair
Golan, before spitting on him at a anti-Netanyahu protest encampment outside the Prime Minister's Residence.**
APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday July 20, 2020
Quote of the day:
"Security forces would take potshots at Arabs from dozens of meters away, then explain to the journalists
already biased against the protesters (Arabs, you know) that they felt their lives were at risk."
--Arab-Israeli commentator explains why Arab-Israelis are not participating in the demonstrations against the
government.*
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APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday July 19, 2020
Quotes of the day:
"It’s a sure thing that if Hallaq had attacked the cops, or even hiccupped in their direction, all the
security footage of all the cameras would have been forwarded immediately to the TV stations and the news
sites."
--Haaretz+ columnist Noa Osterreicher writes about the declaration by the Justice Ministry that all seven cameras
that pointed at the place where a Border Policeman shot and killed young autistic Palestinian man, Eyad Al-Hallaq,
malfunctioned.*
“I will admit that in 2011 I sinned the sin of innocence: I believed that it was possible to translate the
protest into a different, hopeful socio-economic policy. But this belief was shattered in the face of the ancient
truth: ‘The horse can be brought to the trough, but it cannot be forced to drink’…Today...there is only one option
left: not to try to bring the horse back to the trough, but to replace the horse, and soon.”
—Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, who was appointed by PM Binyamin Netanyahu to head the public committee to probe the
2011 social welfare protests, writes in Yedioth about the differences between 2011 and today’s protests.**
1. Bills, Resolutions, & Letters
2. FY21 NDAA —
House
3. FY21 Defense Approps – House
4. Hearings &
Mark-Ups
5. 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.
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Hagit Ofran of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch team laid out the way in which Israeli authorities use the Absentee Property Law to dispossess Palestinians of their properties in East Jerusalem and transfer their homes to settlers. This same process could be applied to tens of thousands of Palestinians if and when Israel annexes in the West Bank.
Hagit Ofran is the co-director of Settlement Watch, a project of Shalom
Achshav (Peace Now). She has two decades of expertise on issues related to settlements in the West Bank and
East Jerusalem.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday July 16, 2020
Quotes of the day:
“I’m fighting over my country because I care about it. If it was finished, I wouldn’t be here,” one woman said, imploring the demonstrator, who tried grabbing a microphone from Channel 13 News reporter Avishay Ben Haim, and was now trying to set fire to an Israeli flag. Other protesters gathered around and tried to convince him to stop. At one point, the situation nearly deteriorated into violence.
“It will be the picture of the protest. That’s exactly what they want. You’re helping our
enemies.” The man put out the small flame that had begun to burn on the flag and the woman took it
away from the scene. The furious man was forced to relent and came down from the roof.
--Haaretz's Jerusalem correspondent, Nir Hasson, reports from the scene of the biggest most virulent
protest remembered in Jerusalem.*
APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday July 15, 2020
Quote of the Day:
"Israel put out a contract on any struggle that seems violent. Then BDS came along and demonstrated a
nonviolent path and that embarrassed Israel and forced it to say that it opposed any type of opposition to the
occupation. I’m in favor of a boycott against the occupation, including a boycott against the
settlements."
--In an in-depth interview, MK Ahmed Tibi blames the Israeli left-wing for the occupation and the
settlements and is in favor of a boycott to end them.*
“From the first day here, we hoped to go from individuals to multitudes, but we can only rest on our
laurels when the goal is attained, and that’s when Netanyahu goes home. We hoped for it, but we didn’t think it
would get to this.”
—Amir Haskel, a protest leader and former general, said at the massive protest outside the Prime Minister’s
Residence last night.**
APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday July 14, 2020
Quote of the Day:"An absurd spectacle is taking place in the country. The
decision-making is so shallow, like the water in the toddlers' pool. The public pools are closed, but those who are
able to, can pay 500 for a one-time family entrance to the pool at a luxury hotel. Those who don’t have the money
don’t interest anyone anyway. They can go to the beach and sit on the sand. The state will already take from him
the 500 shekels for not wearing a mask in public."
--Commentator Orit Miller-Katav takes
a sharp look at the government's handling of the corona crisis.**
You Must Be Kidding:
Jewish Israelis are moving to
the West Bank for a better quality of life during the pandemic, while Palestinian laborers from the West
Bank were forced by their Israeli employer to sleep at an Israeli garbage dump because the employer did not want to
allow them to go home for fear they would not be allowed to return to work.*