APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Quote of the day:

"Alongside the team tasked with granting a kosher stamp to the illegal outposts, we shall also establish a committee that will be tasked with legitimizing the illegal embezzlement of public funds."
--Asaf Gefen writing in Ynet about the morality of a committee for legalizing the illegal.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Quote of the day:

"Weinstein's letter is a slap in the face for the the settlers."

--Maariv reporting on problem now facing Netanyahu's outpost legalization committee.**
 

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday, February 20, 2012

Quote of the day:

"Present the story of settling Gush Katif (former Jewish settlements in Gaza Strip) as one of the possible responses to the question, 'How is Zionism carried out.'"
--Instructions on card game that was part of a kit distributed to Israeli teachers to mark Gush Katif Day.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday, February 17, 2012

Quote of the day:

"When it's about children, there is no place for politics."
--Haim Weingarten, a Zaka medic at the site of the crash of the Palestinian children's bus.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Quote of the day:

"I felt like they were raping me in many senses, and I am not prepared to let this go."

--Israeli Arab journalist Yara Mashhour on the humiliating treatment she received by El-Al security agents.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Quote of the day:

"Ahmadinejad's Iran is great for the settlements."
--Bradley Burston in an Op-Ed in today's Haaretz.

APN's daily news review from Israel

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Quote of the day:

"Mixing Israeli academia with an ideology of occupation and oppression undermines [ties with academic institutions in other democracies] and threatens to cause severe damage to the Israeli academia."
--From letter written by more than 250 Israeli academics, including four Israel Prize laureates, to the Education Minister to stop Ariel college from being recognized as a university.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday, February 13, 2012

Quote of the day:

"I saw their regret. I understood why they did it and I knew their hearts were clean. Today I consider them brothers."
--Ali, Arab student in Tsfat who asked the court to lessen the punishments of two Jewish youth who burned his car.**

APN's daily news review from Israel

Friday, February 10, 2012

Quote of the day:
"No leftists, no terror attacks."
-Graffiti spray-painted on offices of Peace Now in Jerusalem -- Israel Hayom**
 

APN's daily news review from Israel

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Quote of the day:

"The High Court decision was clear: Brave journalism is preferred over the right to one's good name."
--Tehila Altshuler, a communications researcher, in an Op-Ed in Maariv about a revolutionary High Court ruling**