PAST ACTION - Tell your Senators: SUPPORT Iran diplomacy; OPPOSE new Iran sanctions

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Update: this action, now closed, ran in January 2015. 

The fight to keep Iran-focused diplomacy alive isn’t over. Last year, with your help, efforts by some Senators – backed by groups like AIPAC – to pass new, diplomacy-killing Iran sanctions in the Senate (S. 1881) were stopped in their tracks. Now, the same group is at it again, with new Iran sanctions legislation expected to be introduced in the Senate next week.

National Security Advisor Susan Rice has predicted that new Iran sanctions would “blow up” negotiations. President Obama has promised to veto the legislation if it makes it to his desk. But this isn’t stopping Senate Iran hawks and their supporters. They appear more determined than ever to move ahead with new sanctions and are working to muster a veto-proof majority.

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News Nosh 01.15.15


APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday January 15, 2015

Quote of the day:
“We have an army and a state and we don’t do eye for an eye. We must not be criminals and ignore phenomena like ‘price-tag' attacks."
--President Reuven Rivlin tells right-wing columnists he will continue to condemn price-tag attacks.** 

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News Nosh 01.16.15


APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday January 16, 2015

Number of the day:
36.
--Percentage of Israelis who DO want Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to serve another term. 58% do not and 6% are unsure. **

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APN Legislative Round-Up: January 16, 2015 [Updated]

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APN in Southern California is a co-sponsor of the following breakfast program to be held on Wednesday, February 4:

Nice or Necessary? Jewish-Arab People-to-People Programs

Breakfast Program with Joel Braunold, U.S. Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP)

Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 8:00 a.m.

Lenny's Deli (back room)
2379 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles (at Pico)

Bagel Breakfast: $15 (pay at door)

RSVP to apnwest@peacenow.org or 323-934-3480

Sponsors: Americans for Peace Now, American Friends of Neve Shalom Wahat al Salaam, J Street, Partners for Progressive Israel

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The Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) is a network of organizations that seek to build a secure just and sustainable peace, and conduct civil society work in conflict transformation, development, coexistence and cooperative activities on the ground in the Middle East among Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs, and Jews.

There are more than 80 member organizations in ALLMEP, including the Arab-Jewish Village Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam and the bilingual and multicultural Hand in Hand schools, the Jerusalem one recently attacked in a hate crime.

Joel Braunold is the U.S. Director of ALLMEP, after having previously served in leadership roles in London and New York at the ALLMEP member organization PeaceWorks Foundation/OneVoice Movement. He has received the Avi Schaefer Peace Innovation Prize, and his insightful analysis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been published by national and international media outlets, including Ha'aretz.com, the New York Daily News, the Guardian, the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast.

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News Nosh 01.18.15


APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday January 18, 2015
 

Quote of the day:

"During Operation Protective Edge over 2,000 people were killed in Gaza who we could not identify."
--IDF Judge Advocate General, Major General Dani Efroni, warns of problems Israel could face in a probe by The Hague of war crimes.**

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News Nosh 01.19.15


APN's daily news review from Israel

Monday January 19, 2015
 

Quote of the day:

“Because my wife and I and many other Israelis like us want to leave their children a country which does not control another people and which is not indifferent to its poor, we will not stop fighting for the end of the occupation and end of poverty. All the rest is important, but not critical.”
--Yedioth economic analyst Sever Plocker answers Yair Lapid’s question, "What kind of country do you want to leave your children?"**

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January 19, 2015 - New fronts of warfare: the Golan, the ICC and more

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This week, Alpher discusses the Israeli Air Force helicopter strike in the Golan; the broader strategic implications; the announcement last week in the Hague that the International Criminal Court was launching a preliminary inquiry to determine whether to investigate war crimes allegedly committed by Israel in last summer’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza; and why “Charlie Hebdo” drew so much more international attention than far more extensive Islamist atrocities perpetrated almost simultaneously by Boko Haram in Nigeria and al-Qaeda and the Shiite-affiliated Houthis in Yemen

New fronts of warfare

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News Nosh 01.20.15


APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday January 20, 2015

Quote of the day:
"This is violence for its own sake. I am not in Jabalya and not in Gaza - I will demand an investigation commission."
--Mayor of Rahat Talal al-Krenawi, who himself was injured by the police at the funeral for a Bedouin youth mistakenly killed by police. One man died of tear gas at the funeral.**

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Obama on Why No New Iran Sanctions Now

Last week, in an appearance with British Prime Minister Cameron, President Obama laid out -- in the clearest language yet -- the case against Congress pursuing new Iran sanctions at this time.  APN wholly concurs with the President's analysis and observations, highlighted below (underlining/bold added by APN).

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