APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday May 23, 2013

Quote of the day:

"In the Border Police, (murderer at the Beersheva bank, Itamar) Alon learned not just how to shoot but how to behave rudely, violently and to solve problems with weapons while receiving respect and glory for doing so."
--Haaretz's Gideon Levy looks at the thread of Israelis who serve in Israel's Border Police and later feel they have license to act violently also outside of the Palestinian Territories.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday May 22, 2013

Quote of the day:

What is worrying me is not a Palestinian state but the existence of the Jewish state. I am in doubt. Time is not on our side."
--Labor MK Benjamin Ben-Eliezer at Knesset committee meeting which revealed how deep the divisions in the government are on the peace process.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday May 21, 2013

Quote of the day:

"If Lapid thinks Issawiya, Shuafat and Beit Hanina need to be part of the Jewish state and that stopping settlement construction is an American, European or Qatari interest, then apparently our Finance Minister is more connected to the settlers than the reality."
Labor MK Omer Bar-Lev on Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid's statement to the New York Times.**

Alpher discusses Syria's civil war and Israel's possible involvement, the best Syrian end-game from Israel's standpoint, whether, as long as Assad holds onto power, can the Syria-Israel border remain quiet, whether there are any signs of progress in Kerry's effort to renew final status negotiations,

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday May 20, 2013

Quote of the day:

"The expert opinion attached to the report reads like an article by a movie critic and not by a pathologist."
--Haaretz's Barak Ravid on the government inquiry report that claimed Mohammed Al-Dura was never killed.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday May 19, 2013

Quote of the day:

"Torching Arabs for education."
--Printed on T-shirt of guide affiliated with the Ezra Jewish religious youth movement. **

APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday May 17, 2013

Quote of the day:

"This is a slap to the efforts of Kerry. Instead of protecting the interests of the State, the Defense Minister is protecting the 'Hilltop Youth' and asking for the legalization of outposts that are supposed to be evacuated."
--Peace Now on the State's request to legalize four settlement outposts.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday May 14, 2013

Reminder: News Nosh is on holiday Wednesday and Thursday for Shavuot.

Quote of the day:

"They stepped on me like a dog."
--Coptic Priest Father Arsanius on being beaten by Israeli police on Holy Saturday of Light.**

Alpher discusses Chinese Presiden Xi Jinping four-point peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the US and Russia's plan to convene an international peace conference to find a political solution to the civil war in Syria, and Kerry's investigation of ways to use the Arab Peace Initiative as a regional framework for a renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace process

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday, May 13, 2013

NOTE:
Tomorrow evening the Shavuot holiday begins and News Nosh will be in its Friday format. News Nosh is on holiday Wednesday and Thursday and back on Friday.
 
Quote of the day:

"This is a theatre of the absurd. The Netanyahu government has frozen construction for Jews and is handing out state land to Palestinians as a present."
--Settler official tells Maariv about government's plans to permit construction of new Palestinian city.**