Gershon Baskin / The Jerusalem Post (November 6, 2013)
Argues that peace requires both sides to demonstrate positive will and actions to positively influence the
atmosphere outside of the negotiating room, and provides examples that both sides could take to do that. Read More
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APN's Israel Study Tour participants held a series of meetings with Israeli Knesset members at the Israeli parliament. One of them was MK Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home, one of the youngest and most extreme right-wing members of the Knesset. Shaked routinely attacks Israel's peace camp. She does so while noting how effective Israel's peace movement has been in mainstreaming the notion that Israel needs a two-state solution to its conflict with the Palestinians.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday November 06, 2013
Number of the day:
46.
--The percentage difference between the average monthly income of a Jewish male employee versus an
Arab male employee in Israel, according to just released data.**
Peace Now's new movie explaining why it is so important that we not give up, why we must continue to work for peace.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday November 05, 2013
Quote of the day:
"From our point of view, possibility of holding a national referendum is real and and the work of persuasion must
start from now."
--Peace Now Secretary General Yariv Oppenheimer on just-launched Peace Now campaign to persuade
Israelis to support a two-state solution. (See video.)**
Everyone remembers the Princess Bride. Who can forget the drama, the humor, the love story between Buttercup, and the dashing hero, Westley, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts. And who could forget the haunted, lovable Inigo Montoya - the sword-wielding mercenary-turned-hero determined to avenge the death of his father at the hands of the six-fingered man.
This week, Alpher discusses the NSA listening in on Israel and whether the repeated leaks from Washington that link Israel to mysterious attacks on Syrian missiles are in the same category, Secretary of State Kerry's returning to Israel and Palestine this week and what new initiatives by the two sides await him upon arrival, and why the IDF needs more money now, with security threats from the Arab world reduced by chaos and revolution
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday November 04, 2013
Quote of the day:
"I really don't feel like I'm in an enemy country, everyone is helping me and caring for
me."
--Syrian mother who gave birth yesterday to the first Syrian baby born in Israel because she was more scared for
the well-being of her child than of going to the enemy state.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday November 03, 2013
Quote of the day:
"The bullet that does not kill us makes us stronger."
--Iyad Burnat, star and co-director of the Oscar-nominated film 5 Broken Cameras wrote on his Facebook page
after Israeli forces shot him in the leg Friday during weekly protests at his village of
Bil'in.**
Op-ed: To prevent a 'Palestinian spring' Israel must create hope, and prisoner release is part of that
The Arab Spring did not bring, as of yet, stability to any country in which it occured, but it did bring forth a new gospel that's impossible to ignore - the gospel of "The democracy of the masses, and not necessarily of the majority." Mideast nations suddenly realized their strength and their ability to cause coups and change regimes. The public realized that if there's a critical mass of displeased people - even if they are not, by definition, a majority - the regime will struggle to rule.
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