Israeli security expert Yossi Alpher's response to a Washington Jewish Week letter to the editor critiquing APN activist Barbara Green's opinion piece "Israel and U.S. Jews must break their shared silence"
President Trump's controversial US Ambassador to Israel has demonstrated
that APN was right to oppose his confirmation and subsequently call for his firing.
Based on his actions, statements, and our off-the-record conversations with informed insiders, it is clear that David Friedman is the chief architect behind the Trump administration's thinly concealed push to kill the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Friedman File is APN's comprehensive record documenting the deeds of the settlements enthusiast-cum-ambassador since he assumed his post.
Friedman File
Update on January 10, 2021
This episode features a conversation with Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights
Watch.
Shakir investigates and documents human rights abuses in
Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
We talked about his recent deportation from Israel and about Human Rights Watch’s new report, Born Without Civil Rights.
Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
Listen to the Americans for Peace Now briefing call
from Tuesday, January 7 with strategic affairs expert Yossi Alpher, on
what Qassim Suleimani’s assassination means for Israel and the Middle East.
Yossi Alpher, an independent security analyst, is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with Israel’s Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. He is the author of Hard Questions Tough Answers, APN’s weekly analysis of Israeli and Middle Eastern strategic affairs. His brief from this week on the Soleimani issue is HERE.
Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
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While most Americans were recovering from Christmas and American Jews were digesting Chinese food, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was vowing to his base that he would “deliver an American recognition of applying our sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the north of the Dead Sea,” followed by “delivering an American recognition of applying our sovereignty over all the settlements in Judea and Samaria. All, bar-none.”
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday January 2, 2020
Quote of the day:
"It is Netanyahu’s right to fight the indictments against him. It is his right to ask for immunity. But he
has no right to destroy the remainder of the trust of the citizens of the state in its institutions. Without trust
there is no law, no institutions, no army, no state."
--Top Yedioth political commentator, Nahum Barnea, writes about the accusations made by Israeli
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in his speech about why he requested immunity from trial.*
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday January 1, 2020
Number of the day #1:
30%.
--Amount of Israeli children living under the poverty line, according to new national
report.**
Number of the day #2:
100 million.
--The amount of shekels (= $29 million) that the settler organization, Amana, received from
taxpayer funds between 2013 to 2015, to promote Jewish settlement on occupied lands, often acting illegally to
achieve this goal.*
Quote of the day:
“The justices’ decision is a dramatic and significant step that sets bounds, at least for now, on the
rampant criminality in the settlements and the illegal outposts. We hope that in this spirit, the court will rule
that no public money should be transferred to Amana ... A situation in which Israel backs the transfer of public
money for illegal activity is intolerable, and we urge the government to put a stop to it.”
--Peace Now reacts to the High Court decision forcing settlements to ask for government
permission to transfer funds to the Amana settler organization.*