APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday March 30, 2016
Quote of the day:
"In a normal country,...the state is the one that dictates the army’s mode of behavior and determines
its values, not vice versa. But in the Israel of 2016, that, absurdly enough, would be a recipe for disaster.
For if the army were to adopt the country’s values, the IDF would have to execute many more civilians than it
has so far."
--Haaretz journalist and commentator Zvi Bar’el writes that something is fundamentally wrong when the head of the military is the country's standard bearer for liberalism, values and human rights.
You Must Be Kidding:
“Since the incident, we have been harassed as if we are the criminals. We are all living in fear, mostly my wife and children. One of the girls has not left the house for days out of a fear they will attack her.” --Emad Abu-Shamsiyah.
"In the eyes of people who don’t agree with you, you become immediately a traitor of Israel." -- Yehuda Glick.
--Since the incident caught on video in which an IDF soldier shot in the head and killed a wounded Palestinian assailant lying on the ground, both Emad Abu Shamsiyah, the Palestinian who filmed the video, and Yehuda Glick, the far right-wing Temple Mount activist who called the killing 'horrific,' have received death threats from right-wing Israelis.
--Haaretz journalist and commentator Zvi Bar’el writes that something is fundamentally wrong when the head of the military is the country's standard bearer for liberalism, values and human rights.
You Must Be Kidding:
“Since the incident, we have been harassed as if we are the criminals. We are all living in fear, mostly my wife and children. One of the girls has not left the house for days out of a fear they will attack her.” --Emad Abu-Shamsiyah.
"In the eyes of people who don’t agree with you, you become immediately a traitor of Israel." -- Yehuda Glick.
--Since the incident caught on video in which an IDF soldier shot in the head and killed a wounded Palestinian assailant lying on the ground, both Emad Abu Shamsiyah, the Palestinian who filmed the video, and Yehuda Glick, the far right-wing Temple Mount activist who called the killing 'horrific,' have received death threats from right-wing Israelis.
Rabbi Justin Goldstein was ordained in 2011 by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at
the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, is a 2012-2013 Rabbis Without Borders Fellow and has served
Congregation Beth Israel in Asheville NC since 2014.