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.**
Iran is trying to strike Israeli targets around the world in a bid to stop the assassinations of its nuclear scientists, the head of the Shin Bet security service, Yoram Cohen, said Thursday.
Lecturing at a closed forum in Tel Aviv, Cohen said that Iran believes Israel is behind the attacks on its nuclear experts, which have killed four scientists since November 2010. "It doesn't matter if it's true or not that Israel took out the nuclear scientists," Cohen said. "A major, serious country like Iran cannot let this go on. They want to deter Israel and extract a price so that decision makers in Israel think twice before they order an attack on an Iranian scientist."
read the articleAPN'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.'**
A new presentation by Jerusalem expert Daniel Seidemann demonstrates how planned Israeli settlement construction in East Jerusalem could make the two-state solution impossible by 2013
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.**
APN hosted a press briefing in Washington, D.C. with Jerusalem expert Daniel Seidemann. Danny, who co-directs the Israeli nonprofit Terrestrial Jerusalem, demonstrated how current Israeli government planning for settlement construction in East Jerusalem would make a two-state solution virtually impossible by the end of 2013.
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.
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