Americans for Peace Now (2011 - 2015)
Updated documentation of "price tag" attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, as well as the increasing spread
of attacks inside the Green Line. Includes dates and descriptions of each attack. Read More >
Jewish Virtual Library (2009 - 2014)
List of Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel. Includes dates, locations, descriptions, and information about
the perpetrators (if known) of each attack. Also provides information on the types of rockets used and their
capabilities. Read More >
Event 4/11: John Kerry's Framework: More of the Same, or a Fresh Approach to Israel-Palestine Peace?
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday April 01, 2014
Quote of the day:
"Your campaign slogan was 'where is the money' -- the money is right there."
--MK Stav Shaffir (Labor) yelled at the Yesh Atid MKs after they voted to appropriate $50.6 million of taxpayer money to the World Zionist Organization's Settlement Division.**
--MK Stav Shaffir (Labor) yelled at the Yesh Atid MKs after they voted to appropriate $50.6 million of taxpayer money to the World Zionist Organization's Settlement Division.**
Each year at Passover, Jews read this line in the haggadah, "In every generation a person is obligated to see themselves as if they had left Egypt." Why? Because each of us should understand that in our generation, just as in our ancestors' generation, the status quo is not inevitable. Societies founded on inequality, on domination of others, on ruling those who do not wish to be ruled cannot, in the arc of history, last. In every generation there is a wrong to be righted. Today, it is in our hands to right it.
This year, you can add flavor to your seder by sharing this thoughtful reflection by Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb. Rabbi Dobb, who has written previously for Americans for Peace Now, has graciously contributed our 13th haggadah insert. In it, he asks us to make peace with the idea of limits.
Since 2001, Americans for Peace Now has asked rabbis from the extended APN family to contribute reflections on the haggada: that story which has for centuries been understood as the archetype of liberation. Many of us have made these reflections a permanent part of our seder - we hope you will, too. You can find them here.
May we all enjoy a sweet and liberating Passover,
Debra DeLee
President and CEO,
Americans for Peace Now
Submitted by Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb (2014)
To be read after the meal, just before the search for the afikomen. (Tzafun)
Haaretz - March 24, 2014
APN's Ori Nir op-ed: Two-staters, unite behind Kerry
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.581723
“By now everyone has realized that there’s a new issue on the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations agenda that’s not going away: The demand that the Palestinians not only recognize Israel - something they have done repeatedly, starting in 1993 - but that they recognize Israel as "a Jewish state," or some similar wording. No such “recognition-plus” demand was made of Egypt or Jordan, nor was it mentioned in the Oslo agreement or subsequent Israeli-Palestinian documents. It made a brief appearance in the Annapolis talks of 2007, but only as a marginal issue. Only In 2009 did it truly come into play, courtesy of Benjamin Netanyahu...”
APN resources:
Lara Friedman, Haaretz, March 31, 2014: What Israeli Palestinian mutual recognition really means
Lara Friedman, APN Blog, April 19, 2009: The Demand for "Recognition-Plus" -- Bibi's New Pretext for Not Pursuing Peace
Other recommended reading:
Yitzhak Lior, Haaretz+. March 30, 2014: Abbas, don’t recognize Israel as a Jewish state
Zvi Bar’el in Haaretz+, March 26, 2014: A Jewish nation-state is for Israelis with identity anxiety
Amos Schoken, Haaretz+ March 24, 2014: The visible rejectionism of Ari Shavit
Peter Beinart, Haaretz+ March 19, 2014: Before Abbas recognizes the Jewish state, Israel must define it
Hussein Ibish, Haaretz+, March 13, 2014: How many times must the Palestinians recognize Israel?
Chemi Shalev, Haaretz+ March 12, 2014: Israelis: Peace with Arab world more important than recognition as Jewish state
Donniel Hartman, Times of Israel, March 11, 2014: A Jewish state: It’s our problem, not theirs
Hussein Ibish, NOW, March 11, 2014: The real impact of Israel's "Jewish state" demand
Reuters, March 5, 2014: 'Jewish state' recognition adds new Israeli-Palestinian trip wire
Matt Duss, Think Progress, March 5, 2014: Is Palestinian Recognition Of Israel As A ‘Jewish State’ An Insurmountable Obstacle?
Yoav Hendel, YNet, Feb. 17, 2014: When will Israel recognize the Jewish state?
Efraim Halevy (former head of the Mossad), YNet, Feb, 26, 2014: Israel, beware 'Jewish statehood' trap
Haaretz January 22, 2014: Peres: Palestinian recognition of Jewish state 'unnecessary'
Brent Sasley, Haaretz+, January 15, 2014: Israel needs borders, not therapy
Jodi Rudoren, New York Times, January 2, 2014: Sticking Point in Peace Talks: Recognition of a Jewish State
Haviv Rettig Gur, Times of Israel, October 7, 2013: The nature of peacemaking according to Netanyahu
Times of Israel, October 6, 2013: Netanyahu blames Mideast conflict on refusal to recognize Jewish state
Tal Becker, WINEP brief, February 2011: The Claim for Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State: A Reassessment
Hussein Ibish, Foreign Policy, May 25, 2011: Should the Palestinians Recognize Israel as a Jewish State?
The Geneva Accord, October, 2003: “Affirming that this agreement marks the recognition of the right of the Jewish people to statehood and the recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to statehood, without prejudice to the equal rights of the Parties' respective citizens”