This was a winning week for Israel's true patriots, Peace Now's dedicated staff and activists.
Earlier this week, Hagit Ofran, the director of Peace Now's Settlement Watch project, won an esteemed prize, named after her grandfather, iconic philosopher and anti-occupation activist Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, February 3, 2012
Quote of the day:
"They see what the boundaries of the [Israeli] prime minister's flexibility are and who makes up the coalition, and they know the maximum this government will offer will not reach their minimum."
--Israel's Shin Bet Chief Yoram Cohen speaking in a closed forum about why he thinks the Palestinians do not want to negotiate with Israel.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Quote of the day:
"It sounds Arab."
--Reason why Jewish stall owners in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market oppose naming a street there after the famous hummous restaurant 'Rahmo.'**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Quote of the day:
"The height of chutzpah"
--Arab Jaffa city councilman Ahmed Mashharawi on the request by Jewish residents of the city to name streets after Jews.**
This week's Torah portion offers us a message about the need for us to act with courage and act decisively to prevent disaster
In this portion, we have many great inspiring moments: crossing the sea to escape Pharaoh, the song of the sea afterwards, the fight against the nation of Amalek. In fact, in this week's Torah portion, the Israelites see literally dozens of miracles - miracles come fast and furious, one after another.
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for the period of
January 21-31, 2012
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1. Bills, Resolutions
& Letters
2. Odds & Ends
Apologies
for the belated and abbreviated Round-Up this week (and the
absent Round-Up
this coming Friday) -- both are due mainly to the visit to the
U.S. of Jerusalem
expert Danny Seidemann, who is in the U.S. discussing current
developments/trends in East Jerusalem settlement construction,
and the imminent
threat they pose to the viability of the two-state solution. His visit coincides with
the publication of a
new map presentation laying out these current
developments/trends and
projecting (conservatively) what the map of Jerusalem will
look like at the end
of 2013, assuming these trends continue unchecked. That presentation can be
viewed/downloaded here.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Quote of the day:
"The future of the illegal settlement outpost of Migron hovers over the primary."
--Haaretz's Knesset affairs commentator writing about what happens if far-right wing Likud member Moshe Feiglin gets more than 25% of the votes in today's Likud party primaries.
Alpher discusses the Israeli-Palestinian pre-negotiation talks in Amman, interim conclusions from the "Arab spring" one year after the outbreak of the revolution in Egypt and the meaning of the 2009 survey just published on Israeli attitudes towards religiosity.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday, January 30, 2012
Quote of the day:
"Whoever believes that is a racist Jew."
--Avraham Burg in response to the question: Are we are the Chosen People? as asked in a much-discussed poll by the Guttman Institute **
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, January 27, 2012
Quote of the day:
"I informed the cabinet we have no ability to hit the Iranian nuclear program in a meaningful way."
--Senior IDF officer
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