APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 20, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Cockadoodle-doo muezzin"
--Racist campaign ad for Jerusalem municipal elections by far right-wing candidate Arieh King.**
UNRWA (2011)
Documentary providing a glimpse of life inside Burj Barajneh refugee camp, and the experience of being a
Palestinian refugee in Lebanon. Watch Part 1
> (7:17) | Part 2 >
(7:56) | Part 3 > (9:17)
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, October 18, 2013
Number of the day:
70.
--Percentage increase in new settlement construction starts in the first half of 2013 compared
with the first half of last year, Peace Now reports. **
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday October 17, 2013
Quote of the day:
"When the Latrun monastery is spray-painted with graffiti, it troubles the entire Protestant world - and we cry about anti-Semitism? Those who seek to destroy and devastate us come from us."
--Former Shin Bet chief Carmi Gilon says the roots for the next political murder are planted among "price tag" activists.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday October 16, 2013
Word of the day:
Hosseleh.
-- "That extra bit of patience nobody has. As in, 'I so don't have the hosseleh for this silly
media war between Rohani and Netanyahu. Don't they know neither the Israelis nor the Iranians have any
hosseleh left for another war?'" Ilene Prusher writes a Farsi phrasebook for the Israeli Prime Minister.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday October 15, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Some of my comrades-in-arms got combat shock, not from the battle itself, but from the burial of the
(Egyptian) soldiers."
--Major (res.) Mati Chai talks about his understandings about war and the enemy after he decides to return the dog
tags he took from a dead Egyptian soldier 40 years ago.**
The following article was published in the English edition of Israel's Haaretz daily on October 13, 2013
By Ori Nir
Two recently published surveys should make the Israeli government pause and ponder the impact of its intransigent policies on its staunchest supporters, American Jews.
The city of Jerusalem lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The old city of Jerusalem, which includes the Western Wall, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Dome of the Rock, has often been a flashpoint for violence. East Jerusalem, which is majority Palestinian, was annexed by Israel in the wake of the 1967 war and officially united with (majority Jewish) West Jerusalem.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday October 14, 2013
Quote of the day:
"... if you observe American Jews, you know full well that young American Jews are much less disposed to tolerate
the cognitive dissonance that results from the clash between their values and some Israeli policies."
--Americans for Peace Now spokesman, Ori Nir, analyzes recent polls showing a new American Jewish
generation that is alienated from an intransigent Israel.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday October 13, 2013
Quote of the day:
"Students need music in order to cry, she explained."
--Haaretz education affairs reporter Or Kashti describes how the Israeli education system manipulates Israeli
teenagers' feelings of fear to instill nationalist messages.**