APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday March 1, 2021
Quote of the day:
"Vying in the elections is not a 'prize' afforded only to model citizens or to those whose opinions conform
to others."
--Justice Daphne Barak-Erez wrote in the High Court
ruling that overruled the disqualification of Arab Labor party candidate Ibtisam Mara’ana for statements
she made a decade ago.*
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.
1. Bills,
Resolutions & Letters
2. Hearings &
Markups
3. On
the Record
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.
Americans for Peace Now is part of an international coalition of
organizations opposing the decision of the Jewish National Fund – Keren Kayemet Le’Israel (JNF-KKL) to start
officially purchasing privately-owned Palestinian land in the West Bank to expand Israeli settlements.
We are writing to the World Chairman of the JNF-KKL, Avraham Duvdevani, to let him know that we refuse to legitimize or contribute to the expansion of Israel's settlement enterprise and the further entrenchment of the occupation.
Not in our names!
Please add your name to this letter to Mr. Duvdevani. Help us block this disastrous initiative.
Americans for Peace Now, together with five other progressive American Jewish organizations, sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on February 23rd urging him to revoke a Trump administration order, which requires marking products made in Area C of the West Bank (where Israeli settlements are located) as “Made in Israel.”
APN's daily news review from Israel - Wednesday February 24, 2021
NOTE: News Nosh will be off on Thursday, February 25th, for Purim holiday, and return on Sunday, February
28th.
Quote of the day:
"Any delay lowers his chances of recovery and may result in irreversible damage."
--Dr. David Schul wrote in his medical opinion, calling for Israeli medical respiratory and physical rehabilitation
of Harun Abu Aram, who was completely paralyzed when an Israeli soldier 'misfired' into his neck on January 1st.
Israel's Physicians for Human Rights Israel has called on the Israeli Ministry of Defense to provide Abu Aram with
the treatment. The
ministry has yet to provide any care for Abu Aram.*
APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday February 23, 2021
Quote of the day:
“The possibility that Israel gathers shepherds into its knapsack as though they were assets in a virtual
reality game, is horrifying. The arrest of people for bargaining purposes is an act that suits criminal gangs,
which treat people like tradable property. It strips the kidnapped people of their humanity and turns the
kidnappers into human traffickers. If the defense establishment – which has already committed such abductions in
the past, as in the famous affair of the bargaining chips from Lebanon (which ended in the High Court of Justice
decision to release them) – has not uprooted this practice, it is embroiling itself in a grave criminal act that
cannot be ignored. Objectifying human beings is a clear act of dehumanzation, whether it is sexual objectification
or security objectification."
—Human rights attorney Michael Sfard raises the chilling questions over the imprisonment of two Syrian shepherds,
who were released in exchange for the Israeli woman, who crossed the border into Syria on her own accord.*
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 February 22, 2021
You Must Be Kidding:
Israeli forces detained Aws Ghazi Najeeb, 8, and his brother Mohammed, 6, while they were near their home
in the town of Hizma.**
APN's daily news review from Israel - Sunday February 21, 2021
Quote of the day:
"The proposal talks about 'redeeming the land,' as if we were living under the Ottoman Empire...This is a
decision aimed solely at harming a future Israeli-Palestinians settlement. If there were a responsible adult in the
region, they would have prevented it. But right now, no such person can be found."*
--In an Op-Ed in 'Israel Hayom,' Yossi Beilin slams the Jewish National Fund (JNF/KKL) plan to invest $11.6 million
toward the purchase of lands in the West Bank. The JNF stipulates that only Jews can buy, mortgage or lease
JNF-owned land.*
You Must Be Kidding:
In a survey of 1,100 teens aged 16-18 who constitute a representative sample of Israel’s different “tribes” –
secular, religious Zionist, ultra-Orthodox and Arab, Arabs are the group most feared and hated by Jews of all
kinds. This view was expressed by 24%, 42% and 66%, respectively of secular, religious Zionist and ultra-Orthodox
teens. Fully 49% of religious Zionists and 23% of secular Jews favored stripping Arabs of the right to vote.**