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Ha'aretz: "Israel's Campaign to Destabilize Jordan" by Ori Nir, APN Director of Communications (December 8, 2019)After 25 years of peace, humiliation and disappointment, Jordan fears Israel's next moves will constitute an existential threat to the kingdom Read >> |
After 25 years of peace, humiliation and disappointment, Jordan fears Israel's next moves will constitute an existential threat to the kingdom
by Ori Nir
Dec 08, 2019
Crossing the Allenby Bridge back into Israel, after visiting Jordan just after the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, an occasion that was not celebrated either in Israel or in Jordan, I felt despondent. Jordan’s monarch recently depicted his country's relationship with Israel as being "at an all-time low."
Senior Jordanian officials haven't yet entirely given up hoping Israel will wake up to the need to preserve relations with Jordan, rather than undermining them. But they also know that widely-flagged future moves by a right-wing Israeli government - not least, West Bank annexation – could be critically destabilizing for Jordan, and a lethal blow for bilateral relations.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday December 8, 2019
Quotes of the day:
Quotes of the day:
"This is a period of uncertainty and such periods are fertile ground for incitement and hateful voices,
fertile ground for discourse that seeks to turn the tables, to make the guards out as rioters, the protectors as
attackers, turn falsehoods into truth. They will lie, and we will tell the truth. This is a period that an
unprecedented delegitimization campaign is being made against the law enforcement system in Israel. It is a
successful campaign in which hatred and incitement are the currency. This is no longer coming from the lunatic
fringes of society."
--Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber said in a speech at the annual conference of the Israel Association for Public Law.*
"Dina's speech was rightly applauded here, but in groups where we have a serious problem of trust it did not achieve its goal - and perhaps the opposite.”
--Deputy Attorney General Raz Nazri said at the annual conference of the Israel Association for Public Law.*
--Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber said in a speech at the annual conference of the Israel Association for Public Law.*
"Dina's speech was rightly applauded here, but in groups where we have a serious problem of trust it did not achieve its goal - and perhaps the opposite.”
--Deputy Attorney General Raz Nazri said at the annual conference of the Israel Association for Public Law.*
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Statement from the Progressive Israel Network:
As leading progressive pro-Israel organizations in the American Jewish community, we commend the House of Representatives for passing House Resolution 326. This landmark resolution, which reaffirms support for a two-state solution, marks the first time the House has formally opposed unilateral Israeli annexation of the West Bank and asserted longstanding US opposition to settlements.
The passage of this legislation comes at a critical moment. The resolution sends an urgent message to the region just days after President Trump reportedly spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu about the latter’s plan to annex the Jordan Valley. It is a repudiation of the Trump administration’s attempts last month to legitimize Israeli settlements on occupied territory by declaring that the US no longer views them as a violation of international law, a reversal of decades of bipartisan foreign policy.
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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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday December 5, 2019
Quote of the day:
"At the end of the day, what will determine whether what we saw is a comedy or tragedy is just one
thing: Whether the heroes manage to see, in real time, the Other and his own [version of] justice, not only
their own.”
—In a speech following an address by Culture Minister Miri Regev, who said that she was committed to the idea of making public funding for the arts conditional on loyalty to the state and lack of criticism of the occupation, actress Liora Rivlin compared the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a play.*
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—In a speech following an address by Culture Minister Miri Regev, who said that she was committed to the idea of making public funding for the arts conditional on loyalty to the state and lack of criticism of the occupation, actress Liora Rivlin compared the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a play.*
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Jerusalem Post: "Construction permits, investment in settlements dramatically up " (December 4, 2019)According to Peace Now, the number of plans for housing units in Judea and Samaria as a whole that have received initial or final approval since the beginning of the Trump administration has risen threefold over the figures for the latter years of the Obama administration. Read >> |
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday December 4, 2019
Quote of the day:
"The story here is not a story of money at all. The story is simply that our education system is in
fact an accurate reflection of civil society. The litmus paper used as a murky mirror of the visible and covert
processes in the State of Israel. A policy whose motto is 'Our situation is good, if you exclude the Arabs and
the ultra-Orthodox' is a policy that promotes failure."
--Yedioth commentator Chen Artzi-Srur looks at the enormous gap between PISA test scores of Jewish and Arab pupils in Israel, whereby in math, science and language, Arab pupils are at least three to four years behind their Jewish peers.*
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--Yedioth commentator Chen Artzi-Srur looks at the enormous gap between PISA test scores of Jewish and Arab pupils in Israel, whereby in math, science and language, Arab pupils are at least three to four years behind their Jewish peers.*
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