It is time for the U.S. to act like a real friend to Israel, rather than an enabler of Israel's own worst
behaviors.
Today, an increasing number of governments around the world – including the EU and member states that are
strong supporters of Israel – are finally adopting policies of refusing to support settlements, occupation, and
the de facto annexation of territory occupied in 1967 by Israel. The U.S. should do the same.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursdsay October 02, 2014
Quote of the day:
"We don’t need you as a security guard. As far as we’re concerned, you live in the house, but it’s
better if you have a weapon.”
--Official from the Elad settler organization on the recruitment of people to babysit the 25 homes taken over in the middle of the Silwan E. Jerusalem neighborhood until settler families move in.**
--Official from the Elad settler organization on the recruitment of people to babysit the 25 homes taken over in the middle of the Silwan E. Jerusalem neighborhood until settler families move in.**
Americans for Peace Now (APN) joins its Israeli sister organization, Shalom Achshav (Peace Now) in sharply condemning Israel's final approval of a plan for the construction of a new settlement in East Jerusalem, which would severely complicate a future two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
APN calls on President Obama to take advantage of his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu in the White House today to demand that the plan be cancelled.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 01, 2014
Quote of the day:
"During the military operation, several monkeys, a lion, a fox and a peacock were killed and the
surviving animals suffer severe trauma from the deafening explosions."
--Head veterinarian of the Bisan Zoo in Gaza says lack of food and damaged cages also contributed to the decision to transfer a lion and lioness to a Jordanian zoo yesterday.**
--Head veterinarian of the Bisan Zoo in Gaza says lack of food and damaged cages also contributed to the decision to transfer a lion and lioness to a Jordanian zoo yesterday.**
Settlers entered last night (30.09.2014) into 6 buildings in Silwan, in the area of Wadi Hilweh creating a new reality in the sensitive area, just few meters from Jerusalem's Old City and Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque). Despite settlers claim to have purchased the buildings from Palestinians, some owners of the buildings are denying any sale and have begun operating in order to evacuate the settlers, among others, through legal procedures.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday September 30, 2014
Quote of the day:
"If Abbas is Hamas and Hamas is ISIS, Israel should bomb Ramallah and resume the attacks on Gaza.
Terror is terror. Instead, it is awaiting the moment American, European and Saudi money will fund Gaza's
reconstruction and pay Hamas workers' salaries."
--Top Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea says Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's comparison between ISIS and Hamas in unfounded.**
--Top Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea says Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's comparison between ISIS and Hamas in unfounded.**
Following the speeches delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today and by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, APN today released this statement:
Speaking before the UN General Assembly, flinging accusations and mutual recriminations, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas revealed, with striking clarity, the vast gulf that separates them with respect to their views on the way forward to resolve the conflict that continues to consume both of their peoples.
The speeches of these two leaders also revealed a simple truth: Today, the question is not whether Israelis or Palestinians have a "partner" for peace on the other side, or whether now is the time to launch yet another empty peace process, or whether energies should be invested in making the indefensible status quo more stable. Rather, after more than two decades of peace efforts, after more than 47 years of occupation and conflict, the question today is whether the international community is ready to be a real partner to Israelis and Palestinians in aiding them – and, indeed, pressing them, with meaningful benefits and consequences – to end this conflict.
This week, Alpher discusses whether Abbas has slammed the door on a peace process, what to make of Netanyahu's remarks in response to Abbas' speech at the UN, how much progress Abbas will register on his new initiatives, what could happen now in the Israeli-Palestinian sphere, why the issue of African migrants is so significant for Israelis.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday September 29, 2014
Number of the day:
56.
--Percentage of Israelis who believe that Israel should not end relations with the Palestinian Authority following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' speech.**
--Percentage of Israelis who believe that Israel should not end relations with the Palestinian Authority following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' speech.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday September 28, 2014
Quote of the day:
"More and more Arabs arrived at the scene and asked if we needed help. One of them held (baby) Nitzan,
who was pretty pleased about it. I was afraid, but I know how to distinguish between terrorists and human
beings, and these were human beings."
--Hadassah Sharchaton, 24, quoted in an article titled 'Palestinians rescue settlers after West Bank attack,' which was one of the 10 most popular articles on English Ynet in the year 5774.**
--Hadassah Sharchaton, 24, quoted in an article titled 'Palestinians rescue settlers after West Bank attack,' which was one of the 10 most popular articles on English Ynet in the year 5774.**