APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday September 16, 2019
Quote of the day:
"Zionism began even before the establishment of the state, and demanded sovereignty and a national home
for the Jewish people in its historical land. And now we are the most sovereign and the most nationalist in the
most historic country, ours, but wait a moment, it's also the Arabs'."
--Poet and author, Yonatan Geffen, writes in Yedioth Ahronoth why he's voting for the Joint List.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"You are leading a double life.”
A husband asked for a divorce from his wife, accusing her of infidelity, after he discovered she had decided to vote for Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party and not Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party. he accused. **
Front Page:
--Poet and author, Yonatan Geffen, writes in Yedioth Ahronoth why he's voting for the Joint List.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"You are leading a double life.”
A husband asked for a divorce from his wife, accusing her of infidelity, after he discovered she had decided to vote for Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party and not Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party. he accused. **
Front Page:
I groaned when asked to write a peace parsha for Rosh Hashana
this year. It gets harder each time. The reasons for optimism fade almost daily. With a critical
election looming in Israel and an American president who calls Jewish Democrats disloyal, it's tempting to just
walk away from the Israel issue and our longstanding struggle for an end to the Occupation and the creation of a
Palestinian state. Every once in a while, I remember the feeling of euphoria after the signing of the Oslo
Accords on the White House lawn in 1993. We used to make a gesture -- thumb and forefinger a scant
millimeter apart -- and say to ourselves, "Peace is this close. It can never go back to the way it
was." Didn't really happen that way, right?