54 members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama last week. The
letter called on him to take action to address the dire humanitarian
situation in the Gaza Strip.
Peace and security for Israel are inextricably linked to the welfare of the Palestinian public.
APN, together with six other US-based Middle East peace organizations, today sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to ask Israel to lift its Gaza closure in order to remove a "serious obstacle to restoring hope and making peace" in the region.
By Debra Delee on February 4, 2010 10:57 AM
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Something is terribly wrong in the Jewish community when a prominent
man, who has spent a lifetime shaping legal arguments of the highest
caliber, resorts to hateful name-calling against a fellow Jew and a
pillar of the international legal community.
As Americans have learned from the Daily Show, sometimes satire can be the best way to take the political temperature of a country.
Last month, Eretz Nehederet -- a prime-time satire show broadcast by Israel Television Channel Two -- produced a series of skits about settlers holding Israel's defense forces hostage.
Peace Now and APN very seldom issue joint statements. We took this unusual step today to react to the shocking attacks on the New Israel Fund. These attacks include newspaper and internet ads that resemble images from the darkest times in Jewish history.
The attack on NIF concerns all progressive Israelis and their supporters in the United States.
Please Note: This is an opinion diary not a definite
statement of fact, it is the diarists interpretation of the facts as he
sees them
As we head into the second decade of the 21st century the Jewish
community finds itself in the beginnings of a cultural battle with
regards to it's traditional support for progressive politics, the
Zionist Movement and International Neo-Conservative ideologies.
Israel's Haaretz Daily on Wednesday documented a violent attack by West Bank settlers on defenseless Palestinians.
Today, the newspaper devoted its editorial to the ongoing and escalating violent campaign that settlers call "Price Tag." Haaretz urges us all to call it for what it is: Terrorism.
APN is not trying to win any popularity contests. We know that this is
the only way forward. We also know that, absent a peace process
that people can believe in, things can get worse.
Following President Obama's admission to Time Magazine last week that Middle East peacemaking has turned out to be harder than he expected, speculation is mounting that Obama will decide that he has no political choice but to abandon his ambitious Mideast peace efforts.
This would be a terrible mistake. If he addresses the Middle East at all tonight, at his State of the Union Address, the President should make clear that he will not make this mistake.
The lesson to be drawn from 2009 is not that peace is too difficult or has too high a political price. The lesson of 2009 is that it takes more than patience and polite words to make peace.
