News Nosh 2.10.17

by APN 02/10/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 10, 2016 
 
Quote of the day:
"There is limited remaining territory. Every time you take land for a settlement, less territory remains. I'm not someone who bevies that advancing settlements is good for peace. But we are examining a number of options."
--US President Donald Trump does a political U-turn in his first interview with an Israeli media outlet.**
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Briefing call with strategic affairs expert Yossi Alpher days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meeting in Washington with Donald Trump as President

by APN 02/09/17
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Yossi Alpher DC talkOn February 9. 2017, APN held a briefing call with strategic affairs expert Yossi Alpher in preparation for the Netanyahu-Trump meeting on February 14.

Yossi Alpher, an independent security analyst, is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with Israel’s Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. He is the author of Hard Questions Tough Answers, APN’s weekly analysis of Israeli and Middle Eastern strategic affairs.

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Press Release: APN Deeply Concerned by Israel's Detention and Questioning of NIF Vice President

by APN 02/09/17
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Americans for Peace Now (APN) is deeply concerned about the detention and questioning of the New Israel Fund's vice president, Jennifer Gorovitz, at Ben Gurion Airport yesterday upon arrival in Israel. Gorovitz, who flew into Israel to participate in NIF's Board meeting, was detained for ninety minutes and questioned three times during that period about NIF's activities, including its funding of Israeli non-profit organizations.

Today, according to Israeli media reports, the interim director general of Israel's Population and Immigration Authority, Amnon Shmueli, said that the questioning was "routine," apologized if the questioning caused Ms. Gorovitz anguish, and said that there was no intention to insult her. 

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News Nosh 2.09.17

by APN 02/09/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday February 9, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"Israel has had its say, and it’s loud and clear: one state, from the sea to the Jordan River, and its regime – apartheid. Two peoples, one of them superior. The spit in one’s face can no longer be called rain. This spit requires a response, and the response must be action."
--Haaretz's Gideon Levy in today's Op-Ed.
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News Nosh 2.08.17

by APN 02/08/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 09, 2016 
 
Number of the day:
57.6.
--Percentage of Israelis who oppose annexation of the West Bank, despite growing calls for such a move among right-wing politicians.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
  • A direct route from the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion to Tel Aviv through Jerusalem - without stopping at a single traffic light.
  • A direct route from settlement city of Ma'ale Adumim to Tel-Aviv - without stopping at a single traffic light.
  • Either light rails or trains that will connect Ma'ale Adumim to Jerusalem
  • Either light rails or trains that will connect West Bank settlements of Givat Ze'ev and Sha'ar Binyamin to Jerusalem
  • Either light rails or trains that will connect the settlement city of Ariel and the Samaria region to the Greater Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
--Israel's Transportation Ministry plans to invest $1.3 billion in a five-year plan to connect West Bank settlements directly to major Israeli cities. 
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APN's Ori Nir in Haaretz: As Netanyahu Cozies Up to Trump, American Jews' Alienation From Israel Escalates

by APN 02/08/17
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The more Netanyahu hitches his wagon to the White House, the more he and Trump resemble each other, the more American Jews will actively resist both.

Israel’s newly adopted, patently unconstitutional “Regularization Law” further distances most American Jews from the government of Israel and the State of Israel. 

It does so by further underscoring the similarities between Israel’s leadership and U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign of constitutionally controversial executive orders. It thus further deepens the sense of dissonance in the minds of American Jews regarding the U.S.-Israel relationship. 

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The Bulldozing of Hope

by APN 02/07/17
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Tu Bishvat 2017

Kathleen Peratis

Tu Bishvat, a holiday in which Israelis cherish the fruit of the land and plant trees, begins this Friday evening. But in the West Bank, extremist settlers have made it a national sport to destroy olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers. And when the settlers need a new bypass road, it is the government of Israel which uproots Palestinian-owned olive trees by the hundreds, as is happening these days near the West Bank town of Qalqilya – just to make more room for settlements and allow the settlers easy access to Israel.

In his meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump will have a valuable opportunity to assert long-held US policy on the settlements in particular and on America’s policy toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That includes recent approvals for constructing more than 5,500 homes in West Bank settlements, Knesset bills to annex large parts of the West Bank to Israel, and bills to retroactively legalize settlement construction that violates Israeli law.

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News Nosh 2.07.17

by APN 02/07/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday February 7, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"I believe that in the current political climate the world over, it is more important than ever that we continue to stand against the abhorrent government policies that are an offense against our ethics and the very tenets of what it means to be human. As Jews, we must question whether this reality is closer to home than we might like, and we must condemn the exclusionist policies and politics of the government that claims to represent us."
--Jewish Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor said upon receiving the $1 million Genesis Prize, dubbed the 'Jewish Nobel.' Read on to see what he did with the prize money.* 
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Briefing call Thursday, February 9th, 12:00 PM Eastern, with Yossi Alpher

by APN 02/06/17
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Yossi Alpher DC talk Please join APN for a briefing call with strategic affairs expert Yossi Alpher on US-Israel relations, days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meeting in Washington with Donald Trump as President.

Yossi Alpher, an independent security analyst, is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with Israel’s Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. He is the author of Hard Questions Tough Answers, APN’s weekly analysis of Israeli and Middle Eastern strategic affairs.

The details of the call are as follows:

Date: Thursday, February 9th
Time: 12:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Dial-in Number: 951-797-1058
Participant Access Code: 147414

The call will be recorded. The audio recording will be posted on APN’s website.

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News Nosh 2.06.16

by APN 02/06/17
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday February 6, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
The Knesset is likely to give final approval to a bill that would forbid granting entry visas or residency rights to foreign nationals who call for economic, cultural or academic boycotts of either Israel or the settlements. 
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