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APN Weekly Update - Bresler calls out the occupation, Alpher calls out the new NGO law, Iran deal a year later, and more
"...the law's purpose is to encourage popular hostility against
Israeli advocates of human and minority rights. "
APN will be honored this Thursday for its key role and
partnership in the NSL program that trains young emerging leaders from Palestine
and Israel. APN has hosted interns and programs for the past eight years.
--Yedioth's top political commentator, Nahum Barnea, writes that two groups are challenging Israel's democracy: the government and radical religious Zionism.*
--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp leader MK Isaac Herzog said he fears a civil war.**
Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
This week, Alpher discusses what’s wrong with the Knesset bill passed July 11th, that stigmatizes human rights NGOs (non-governmental organizations, or non-profits) in Israel by obliging them to constantly and blatantly publicize funding they receive from foreign governments; truck attack in Nice on Bastille Day, July 14; and what was relevant about the failed military coup in Turkey.
“It’s called ‘not harming innocents,' that’s what they call it (...and it) is spreading like wildfire.”
--Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, a leading settler rabbi and head of an IDF pre-conscription academy at Eli settlement, denounced the army's efforts to avoid harming Palestinian civilian noncombatants.**
Breaking News:
Two Israelis Soldier Hurt in West Bank Stabbing, Assailant Shot
According to paramedics, both soldiers are conscious after being stabbed in Al-Arroub near Jerusalem. Assailant severely injured and Israeli forces reportedly prevented Palestinian Red Crescent medics from treating him. (Haaretz, Ynet, Israel Hayom and Maan)
You Must Be Kidding:
"Shapira should die in battle… A negligent commander who wipes the blood of his soldier for a promotion."
--One of many of the invectives posted on Facebook against Brigade Commander Lt. Col. David Shapira, who testified against Elor Azariya, the soldier who executed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant.*
New York Jewish Week - July 14
Board Member Martin Bresler's op-ed, "Why I Do Call Israel Out On The Occupation" is published as a response to David Bernstein's "Why I Don't Call Israel Out On The Occupation."
Media Coverage of Peace Now's Response to NGO Law
Al Jazeera - July 12
Israel
passes controversial NGO bill amid criticism
Washington Post - July 12
Israel NGOs decry 'deeply anti-democratic' move as new law approved
Reuters (featured in Daily Mail and Voice of America) - July 12
EU says Israel's new NGO law risks 'undermining values'
http://www.voanews.com/content/eu-says-israels-new-ngo-law-risks-undermining-values/3414830.html
The Guardian - July 12
Israel
passes law to force NGOs to reveal foreign funding
BBC - July 12
EU criticises Israel law forcing NGOs to reveal
foreign funding
The Times of Israel - July 12
EU: NGO law risks
undermining Israel's democratic values
The Times of Israel - July 12
Left-wing groups slam
'anti-democratic' NGO law
Al Arabiya - July 12
>Israel
approves NGO foreign funding law
The Forward - July 12
Israel Passes
Controversial Anti-NGO Law
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - July 12
Knesset passes controversial 'transparency' law on NGO funding
i24 News - July 12
EU Slams Israel's controversial NGO law
France 24 - July 12
Israël
adopte une loi controversée sur le financement étranger des ONG
The Associated Press (featured in Washington Post and New York Times) - July 11
Israel passes law targeting human rights organizations
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/11/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-ngo-law.html
Reuters (also featured in Ynet News and the Jerusalem Post) - July 11
Israel NGO bill, seen as targeting left-wing groups, becomes law
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-ngo-idUSKCN0ZR2JB
Haaretz - June 26
Haaretz Daily Cartoon features Peace Now
News 24 (AFP Story) - July 4
Peace Now
quoted in comment on settlement construction strengthening extremists
Daily Mail - July 6
Peace
Now quoted for a fact on settlement expansion: Israeli government initiates construction of 42 new homes in West
Bank settlement
APN Statement Celebrating One-Year Anniversary of
the JCPOA (7/15/16)
Recommended reading: The
Obama Administration on the 1-year anniversary of the JCPOA
Recommended Reading on the JCPOA 1-year Anniversary - Analyses/News/Commentary
APN archived/historic resources: Diplomacy Produces Good Iran Deal
- APN on the JCPOA at One Year: A Clear Win for Both the U.S. & Israel (7/15/16)
- The Obama Administration on the 1-year anniversary of the JCPOA: Obama, Kerry, Moniz, Power (plus links to earlier statements around the Implementation Day, Jan 2016; announcement of the deal, July 2015; and during negotiations around the deal)
- Recommended Reading on the JCPOA 1-year Anniversary: best analyses/news/commentary
- APN archived/historic resources on effort that achieved the JCPOA
--Conscientious objector, Tair Kaminer, 19, whom the IDF decided to release from compulsory military service after she sat 150 days in prison.**