APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday March 16, 2021
Number of the day:
97
--Percentage
of legislative bills proposals for order submitted by the Arab Knesset members that dealt with social
issues concerning all Israeli citizens - despite the common belief among Jewish Israelis that Arab MKs focus mainly
on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.*
Seventeen Democratic members of the House of Representatives on March 15, 2021 sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, urging him to take additional action to ensure that the Israeli government provide COVID-19 vaccines and facilitate vaccination programs for Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Following is the text of the letter and the list of signatories:
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.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday March 15, 2021
Quote of the day:
“Achievements cannot be destroyed because of a desire for revenge.”
--Unnamed senior official at Israel Ports Authority said after Israeli Prime Minister BinyaminNetanyahu
closed Israel's airspace to flights from Jordan after Jordan delayed Netanyahu's flight to the United Arab
Emirates.*
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Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on March 12th 2021 sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking the Biden administration to urge the Israeli government to do more to help the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip receive adequate supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Following is the full text of the letter:
APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday March 11, 2021
You Must Be Kidding:
A video shows Israeli soldiers pushing and pulling five Palestinian children between the ages of 8 and
12 near the West Bank village of al-Rakiz into jeeps. Then they brought them to an Israeli police station
in a settlement after settlers accused the children of trespassing on their outpost settlement. The children and
Israeli activists said they were foraging for wild plants, as their pails attested.**
Breaking News:
Netanyahu visit today to UAE cancelled. More in Top News summary.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday March 10, 2021
Quote of the day:
“The amount of condemnation of the incidents (on Capitol Hill) was so great and from so many directions
that it’s doubtful that there will be a significant part of the public that will turn in that direction in Israel.
And I don’t expect any influential (Israeli) leader to go with that claim (of a ‘stolen election’) in a significant
way in light of the bitter experience of Trump.”
—Professor Tamar Hermann of the Israel Democracy Institute speaks about the results of a survey
showing that one-third of Israelis will doubt the results of the upcoming elections.*
APN's daily news review from Israel – Tuesday, March 9, 2021
You Must Be Kidding:
At the instruction of Israel’s Public Security Minister Amir Ohana, Israel
police dispersed an International Women’s Day event in East Jerusalem.**
In 2020, 574,000 posts on social media included violent anti-Arab text, making a rate of one out of every
10 posts about Arabs.
—A report by 7amleh - The Arab Center for Social Media Advancement - reveals how has the corona
pandemic has
affected the discourse of racism and incitement against Arabs and Palestinians on Israeli social media
networks.***
Israeli society bid farewell this week to one of its giants, Mordechai (Morale) Bar-On, a person who helped build the state and was among the icons of its peace movement and its progressive camp. Morale was among the leaders of APN’s Israeli sister-organization, Shalom Achshav (Peace Now), and wrote a book that documented Israel’s peace movement. Bar-On passed away at 92.