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. Read More »
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Shaking the Kaleidoscope in Iran (Foreign Policy)
Discussion of military action against Iran is again taking center stage. It takes me back to a late September 2002 meeting , when I brought a former senior Israeli official to see the late Congressman Tom Lantos, then the ranking minority member of the House International Relations Committee. Read More »
Khader Adnan to be Freed, but Admin Detentions to Continue
Yesterday I wrote that Israel should charge Khader Adnan or set him free. Perhaps recognizing the danger that a martyred Adnan poses to its own interests, Israel has done so, sort of. That is, Israel has not charged Adnan. Nor has it set him free. Read More »
News Nosh 2.21.12
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. Read More »
Israel Should Charge Khader Adnan or Set Him Free
For weeks now I have been tweeting about the case of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian who is dying in an Israeli hospital as he enters the 10th week of a hunger strike. Adnan is a member of Islamic Jihad , a Palestinian terrorist organization that has committed horrific attacks against Israel. Read More »
Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher – February 20, 2012
Alpher discusses why Russia is propping up the Assad regime and how this affects Russia’s relations with Israel and the rest of the Arab world, the state of the revolution in Syria, and whether the right-wing organization “Im Tirzu” is fascistic in nature. Q. Read More »
News Nosh 2.20.12
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. Read More »
Legislative Round-Up: February 13-17, 2012
======================= APN Legislative Round-Up for the week ending February 17, 2012 ======================= 1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Egypt in the Spotlight 3. Obama Sends FY13 Foreign Affairs Budget to Congress 4. Odds & Ends 1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters (RED LINES FOR IRAN WAR): S. Res. 380 : Introduced 1/16/12 by Sen. Read More »
News Nosh 2.17.12
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. Read More »
News Nosh 2.16.12
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. Read More »
Text of Ellison-Jones Letter on Iran Diplomacy
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Tell your member of Congress: Sign the Ellison-Jones letter on Iran Diplomacy
We are all concerned about the threat of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. An Iran armed with nuclear weapons represents an alarming scenario that neither the U.S. nor Israel, nor for that matter, the world, can afford to dismiss, and one that the U.S. and the international community must exert all efforts to avoid. Read More »
As the Illegal Outpost of Migron Goes, So Goes All of Israel (Huffington Post)
The fate of Migron , an illegal outpost in the heart of the West Bank, is about to be decided. The implications of this decision are about far more than the future of a handful of settlers in a single outpost. This decision will be a litmus test of Israeli rule of law and, ultimately, of Israel’s capacity to make peace with the Palestinians. Read More »
News Nosh 2.15.12
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. Read More »
Peace Parsha: “Seventy Faces to the Torah” – and Grateful for All of Them
Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, is rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) in Los Angeles. Since 1984, Rabbi Dorff has served on the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and has served as its Chair since 2007. Read More »
News Nosh 2.14.12
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 and threatens to cause severe damage to the Israeli academia. Read More »
Jewish Journal: “Opinion: ‘Decapitating’ Palestine, killing peace” by Leonard Fein
The ongoing work of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch program, headed by the formidable Hagit Ofran and readily available at peacenow. Read More »
Articles on new “Price Tag” attacks against Peace Now
Extremists vandalized again in Jerusalem in an apparent “price tag” attack against Peace Now’s Jerusalem offices. The extremists sprayed “No leftists, no terror attacks” Read JTA and Jerusalem Post articles… Read More »
City of Layers – Guest Column
Brian Reeves, a graduate student who interned with APN over the summer, is pursuing his graduate studies at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. Following is the first in what we hope will be a series of blog posts commenting on his experience in Israel. Brian is a graduate of Brandeis University, where he was the President of J Street U. Read More »
Articles re: Migron Deal to Relocate Inside West Bank
Peace Now executive director Yariv Oppenheimer, slammed Monday’s compromise offer by Migron residents as “outrageous. The government is avoiding fulfilling the Supreme Court decision. Not only will the outpost not be evacuated on time, it will not be evacuated at all. Read More »
Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher – February 13, 2012
Alpher discusses how Hamas and Fateh signing the “Doha declaration” and moving their reconciliation project a step forward influences the peace process, what international military intervention in Syria might look like, what else, if anything, can Read More »
News Nosh 2.13.12
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. Read More »
Legislative Round-Up: January 31-February 10, 2012
======================= APN Legislative Round-Up for the period of January 31- February 10, 2012 ======================= 1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters 2. Odds & Ends 1. Bills, Resolutions & Letters (IRAN SANCTIONS) S. Read More »
Don’t Say We Didn’t Know
Today, February 10, is the 29th anniversary of the murder of Emil Grunzweig. Grunzweig was a reserves paratrooper in the IDF, who fought in the Six-Day War, and served as a reserve officer in the War of Attrition, the Yom Kippur War, and the 1982 Lebanon War. After his discharge, he became an educator and peace activist. Read More »
Iran Resolution
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News Nosh 2.10.12
APN’s daily news review from Israel Friday, February 10, 2012 Quote of the day: “No leftists, no terror attacks. Read More »
Two additional price tag attacks in recent days
In the last two days, two more price tag attacks were made against a monastery, a Jewish-Arab bilingual school and the offices of Peace Now in Jerusalem. On February 7, a Jewish-Arab bilingual school and a Christian monastery in Jerusalem were defaced with graffiti in a suspected “price tag” attacks carried out by Jewish extremists. Read More »
APN Surpasses 30,000 ‘Likes’ on Facebook; Remains #1 American Jewish Organization
APN made online history this week. Our active Facebook page now has over 30,000 fans, more than any US Jewish organization. We use our Facebook page to feature activities, news and views, and to encourage open discussion on the issues. Read More »
“Price Tag” Escalation Timeline: Jan 1, 2011 – present
The following is a timeline of major “Price Tag” attacks from the past 11 months (as reported by Israeli sources). It documents a clear escalation in attacks, and the increasing spread of attacks inside the Green Line. Italics indicate so-called “triggers” – events or developments that appear to be linked to subsequent attacks. Read More »
News Nosh 2.9.12
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. Read More »
News Nosh 2.8.12
APN’s daily news review from Israel Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Quote of the day: “Netanyahu must end his obsessive search for flaws in the internal Palestinian agreement and focus instead on an initiative for ending the conflict. For he has the ability to do so.” –From today’s Haaretz Editorial ‘By avoiding peace, Netanyahu is punishing Israel . Read More »
Peace Parsha: Becoming Truly Free
Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg is the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek (“house of peace/pursuers of justice!”) in Chester, CT. She serves as co-chair of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and is a member of the Rabbinic Cabinet of JStreet. She is also an alumna of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Read More »
News Nosh 2.7.12
APN’s daily news review from Israel Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Quote of the day: “The truly worrisome finding is not the apparent belief in God, but rather the inverse relationship demonstrated … between this belief and the belief in democratic values: The stricter a respondent’s worldview, the less he identified with democratic values. Read More »
Brady, Manning, Ofran and Oppenheimer
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. Read More »
News Nosh 2.3.12
APN’s daily news review from Israel Friday, February 3, 2012 Quote of the day: “They see what the boundaries of the 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. Read More »
News Nosh 2.2.12
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. Read More »
East Jerusalem Settlement Construction Hinders Two-State Solution
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 To view the presentation To listen to an APN-sponsored press briefing with Danny. Read More »
News Nosh 2.1.12
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. Read More »
APN’s Press Conference with Jerusalem Expert Danny Seidemann
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. Read More »
Fear Gets in the Way
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. Read More »
Legislative Round-up: January 21-31, 2012
======================= APN Legislative Round-Up for the period of January 21-31, 2012 ======================= 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. Read More »
Iran Sanctions 2
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Iran Sanctions
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News Nosh 1.31.12
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. Read More »
Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher – January 30, 2012
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. Q. Read More »
News Nosh 1.30.12
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 ** Front Page News: Haaretz: Natan Eshel affair to be investigated by civil service; R. Read More »
News Nosh 1.27.12
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. Read More »
News Nosh 1.26.12
APN’s daily news review from Israel Thursday, January 26, 2012 Quote of the day: “After long years, during which they reported from here non-stop, the international news channels are cutting down the number of employees in Israel…It turns out that viewers in the world are also tired of waiting for peace in the Middle East. Read More »
Israel Hayom: Settlers agree to new, possibly unenforceable, Migron evacuation deal
Under new proposal from Likud MK Danny Danon, illegal outpost of Migron will be relocated while current structures remain intact to serve as farmhouses ⢠Compromise complies with High Court ruling to evacuate outpost, but it may not be legal. Read More »
Peace Now: Migron Ariel Photos and Legal Docs Revealed
Peace Now today released the ‘Migron File’ – a comprehensive dossier containing all the facts and figures, aerial photos and copies of legal documents related to the illegal outpost of Migron (which the Netanyahu government is working frantically to find a way to legalize). Read More »
News Nosh 1.25.12
APN’s daily news review from Israel Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Quote of the day: “Their goal is not protecting the homes in Migron. Their real aim is to wear down the IDF and the court… Read More »
Peace Parsha: There shall not be in your midst the plague of the destroyer
Rabbi Amy Eilberg is the first woman ordained as a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Rabbi Eilberg directs interfaith dialog programs in Minneapolis/St. Read More »
News Nosh 1.24.12
APN’s daily news review from Israel Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Quote of the day: ” I am glad that the prime minister didn’t give in to the defense minister’s plans… The Peace Now activists who wanted to see blood will have to face disappointment. Read More »
APN Welcomes Resignation of Editor who Suggested that Israel Kill Obama
Washington, DC – Americans for Peace now (APN) welcomes the resignation of Andrew Adler, the owner and managing editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times. Adler resigned under pressure, following a column he wrote, suggesting an Israeli assassination of President Obama. Read More »
YNET: “PM to Migron residents: Evacuate willingly”
Netanyahu urges residents of illegal West Bank outpost to accept compromise offer and move to new neighborhood on State-owned land. Read More »
Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher – January 23, 2012
Q. General Martin Dempsey (pictured), chief of the US Armed Forces General Staff, visited Israel last Thursday. The escalating atmosphere with Iran was obviously high on his agenda. How do you view US-Israel strategic coordination regarding Iran? Q. Read More »
Settlements are not an obstacle to peace?
They Say: Settlements are not an obstacle to peace. They take up only a tiny fraction, around 1 percent, of the entire West Bank. We Say: The “one percent argument” is a classic example of how supporters of the status-quo use a fraction of the truth to misrepresent the truth on the ground in the West Bank. Read More »
News Nosh 1.23.12
APN’s daily news review from Israel Monday, January 23, 2011 Quote of the day: “From here to here.” –Caption under cartoon of crane picking up outpost house in Migron and moving it to adjacent spot as part of outpost dismantling orders. Read More »
Press Release: APN Condemns Palestinian Mufti’s Offensive Comments
Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) strongly condemns the belligerent anti-Jewish comments made by the Palestinian Authority’s Mufti of Jerusalem at a public event in the West Bank earlier this month. Read More »
APN Concerned about Attacks on CAP
20 January, 2012 Washington, DC – In the context of recent attacks in the media accusing the Center for American Progress and its staff of anti-Semitism, APN’s President and CEO Debra DeLee today issued the following statement: We are deeply concerned about the ongoing attacks against staff of the Center for American Progress (CAP). Read More »
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