As we all know, a picture is worth a thousand words. This is our aim: to make people think and to act for peace.
This week, we bring you a new cartoon, asking -what is that wall holding back? "Let It Go."
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday June 21, 2016
Quote of the day:
"Can one say the segment of Israeli society concentrated mainly in the occupied territories, trying to
achieve an ethnic cleansing of Arabs, is marginal and hasn’t found its way to the centers of Israeli
power?"
--Israeli Historian Daniel Blatman answers his colleague Gadi Taub’s statement that what is happening in Israel is not fascism and bears no resemblance to Germany just before the Nazis came to power.**
--Israeli Historian Daniel Blatman answers his colleague Gadi Taub’s statement that what is happening in Israel is not fascism and bears no resemblance to Germany just before the Nazis came to power.**
Breaking News:
IDF shoots Palestinian boy dead in 'misidentification' on West Bank road
After three people in an Israeli car on a Highway 443 were lightly injured from stones thrown at their car, IDF forces identified a Palestinian car on the opposite side of the road and opened fire on it, killing one of the Palestinian youth inside and seriously injuring the other four. Initially, Israeli media reported that Mahmoud Raafat Badran, 15, from the village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, who was killed, was a ‘terrorist’ stone-thrower and not a bystander. IDF is opening an investigation. (Ynet, Maariv, Israel Hayom and Maan)
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 the prominent Israeli former government and security officials who spoke out last week very bluntly against Netanyahu and his government and whether this could this be the beginning of serious change; if ISIS is losing the battle for the Levant and if the Obama approach is winning; and whether there are lessons here for Israel regarding Hamas in Gaza.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday June 20, 2016
Quote of the day:
"I call on our leadership to stop subtly courting an extremist minority, to unequivocally come out against
this occurrence and express basic and moral support for a soldier and commander who has shown courage well beyond
the battlefield.”
--Former defense minister Moshe Yaalon comes to the defense of Maj. Tom Naaman, who has been vilified for testifying against Sgt. Elor Azariya, the 'Shooting Soldier from Hebron.'**
--Former defense minister Moshe Yaalon comes to the defense of Maj. Tom Naaman, who has been vilified for testifying against Sgt. Elor Azariya, the 'Shooting Soldier from Hebron.'**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday June 19, 2016
You Must Be Kidding:
"Son of a Nazi."
--One of the numerous attacks on social media networks against IDF Maj. Tom Naaman, who testified against Sgt. Elor Azariya, the 'Shooting Soldier from Hebron,' who shot in the head a Palestinian assailant, who had already been shot, wounded and neutralized.**
You Must Be Kidding:
"Son of a Nazi."
--One of the numerous attacks on social media networks against IDF Maj. Tom Naaman, who testified against Sgt. Elor Azariya, the 'Shooting Soldier from Hebron,' who shot in the head a Palestinian assailant, who had already been shot, wounded and neutralized.**
Quote of the day:
“I ask those same belligerent people, who jump without thinking, insulting a commander and
calling to denounce him: What were you thinking? Who exactly are you protecting? What principles are
you protecting? All those self-righteous people who preach such statements like ‘It is inappropriate to
follow him in battle.' Which battle exactly did you fight in?"
--A fellow commander and friend of Maj. Tom Naaman comes to his defense.**
--A fellow commander and friend of Maj. Tom Naaman comes to his defense.**
Hagai Elad, executive director of Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, on a short visit to
Washington DC, was hosted Friday June 17th for a roundtable briefing by the New Israel Fund. NIF is one of
B’Tselem’s chief funders.
B’Tselem, one of the most prominent human rights organizations in Israel, works tirelessly to inform the Israeli public about human rights violations of Palestinian civilians under Israel’s occupation in the West Bank.
Elad elaborated on B’Tselem’s recent decision to stop referring complaints to the Israeli military law enforcement system, whose role is to handle cases of mistreatment of Palestinians by Israeli Defence Force soldiers. Elad explained that the whitewashing employed by the military law enforcement system has made it extremely difficult for B’Tselem to follow through with investigations: only 3% of cases filed by B’Tselem go to trial. This percentage is so small that even the number of files misplaced and lost in the system is higher.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday June 17, 2016
You Must Be
Kidding:
"Its very sad that the Prime Minister and the nation are falling for a fake."
--IDF tank expert Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Mas said that the tank Israel received from the Russians is not the tank of the missing Israeli soldiers from the battle at Sultan Yaakub. The Israeli parents are furious.
"Its very sad that the Prime Minister and the nation are falling for a fake."
--IDF tank expert Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Mas said that the tank Israel received from the Russians is not the tank of the missing Israeli soldiers from the battle at Sultan Yaakub. The Israeli parents are furious.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday June 16, 2016
Quote of the day:
“The message is: You are still the favorite child, but a spoiled and annoying child and the time has
come to set borders.”
--Yedioth’s commentator Alex Fishman writes that US President Barack Obama is changing the rules in regards to America’s dealings with Israel.**
You Must Be Kidding:
An Israeli-Spanish woman, who calls herself “Yael Cohen,” said she was the 'aunt' of the two Palestinian murderers at Sarona Market.**
--Yedioth’s commentator Alex Fishman writes that US President Barack Obama is changing the rules in regards to America’s dealings with Israel.**
You Must Be Kidding:
An Israeli-Spanish woman, who calls herself “Yael Cohen,” said she was the 'aunt' of the two Palestinian murderers at Sarona Market.**
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"It is impossible to continue having people in a reality in
which you are occupying them, while thinking that they will reach a conclusion
that everything is fine and that life can continue as is."
Yossi Alpher to speak at APN events in Los Angeles and
the Berkshires (Western MA)
APN is pleased to invite you to two events featuring Yossi Alpher in Los Angeles - the World Affairs Council Dinner on Thursday, June 23, and the Hard Questions, Tough Answers LIVE lunch on Friday, June 24.
Yossi, the Israeli security expert with many years of experience in Israeli military and national intelligence, at Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, and in conflict resolution and peace process efforts, writes the weekly Hard Questions, Tough Answers Q and A for APN. He has also just released a new book: "No End of Conflict: Rethinking Israel-Palestine." (A bio and more about the book is below)