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Settler Violence/Terror
Under the guise of "Price Tag", some Israeli settlers and supporters threaten and attack Palestinians, Mosques, Israeli Security Forces, and Israeli peace activists. Read More...
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Jerusalem
No one can deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, which is and forever will be Israel’s capital. Likewise, no one can deny the deep Palestinian connections to Jerusalem, which they view as the only possible capital of a future Palestinian state. Read More...
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Peace Partners: Egypt and Jordan
In 1978, Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David Accords, ensuring stability and security on Israel’s southern border for more than a quarter of a century and opening the way for diplomatic, security, and economic cooperation. Read More...
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Settlements
Israeli politicians today, from across the political spectrum, acknowledge that most settlements – Israeli civilian neighborhoods built on land occupied by Israel in 1967 – will have to be removed as part of any final peace agreement. Read More...
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Shaking the Kaleidoscope in Iran (Foreign Policy)
Khader Adnan to be Freed, but Admin Detentions to Continue
In response, Adnan has ended his 66-day hunger strike. Hopefully he will survive.
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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.
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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.
Most of us are also concerned - and increasingly so - over the growing frenzy of talk about military action against
Iran. Military action is unlikely to do more than delay Iran's nuclear program and is almost certain to have
far-reaching unintended consequences for the U.S., Israel, and the region.
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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.
How can one outpost be so important?
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.org, and frequent analysis by the apparently indefatigable Lara Friedman, American for Peace Now's director of policy and government relations, provide comprehensive -- and disheartening -- details on settlement actions and issues in general.
Fein is an APN Board Member who has written and advocated for progressive Jewish causes since the 1960s. In 1974 he founded Moment magazine, the journal of Jewish ideas, and in 1985 he founded MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
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. And the settlers will gain another settlement in the heart of the West Bank,"
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.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.
APN Concerned about Attacks on CAP
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:
Ha'aretz: Shin Bet chief: Iran trying to hit Israeli targets in response to attacks on nuclear scientists
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 articleIsrael 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.
Settler leaders on Monday agreed to a compromise regarding the evacuation of the illegal outpost of Migron. The High Court of Justice ruled over the summer that the outpost, home to some 50 families, was built on privately owned Palestinian land and ordered its evacuation by the end of March.
The American Prospect: "Love Till It Hurts"
If there's anything that can produce more anxiety than watching the Republicans pick a presidential candidate, it's
watching the process from Israel.
Yes, I know that the Republican candidates--well, except for Ron Paul--all love Israel. Newt Gingrich is still in
the race because of the cash his super PAC got from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, whose other political investments
include financing an Israeli newspaper that exists to promote Benjamin Netanyahu. Rick Santorum has just been
endorsed by the high council of theocons, who are sure they understand Israel's importance better than the Jews
do.
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twitter- 2/22 5:56a Mourning Marie Colvin, fearless professional, kind, generous colleague. She helped me several times on assignments in the West Bank.
- APN Concerned about Attacks on CAP
facebook- 2/22 10:16a Colin Kahl in the Hill: The Iran Containment Fallacy - http://t.co/MxKrrkFm
- Shaking the Kaleidoscope in Iran (Foreign Policy)
- 2/22 3:22p very sensible essay on accepting those who change their minds. http://t.co/4jWPK7N9
- Hard Questions, Tough Answer with Yossi Alpher - February 20, 2012
- 2/22 7:37a The L.A. native gets it right! "It's Israeli Apartheid Week. Just tell the truth" by Bradley Burston in Ha'aretz. http://t.co/u5jR8yXW
- 2/22 12:33p $130 pledged for development East Jerusalem: http://t.co/8qR3OChy
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