August 2, 2014
RAMALLAH, West Bank — I HAD held off coming to Israel, hoping the situation in Gaza would clarify — not in terms of what’s happening, but how it might end in a stable way.
--Question Yochanan Gordon asked in an article in the Times of Israel that called for a consideration of Israel committing genocide to create quiet in Gaza. The article was later removed.**
San Diego Jewish News - July 29, 2014
APN press release reprinted in entirety
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2014/07/29/apn-ceasefire-now-desirable-israel/
Haaretz - July 29, 2014
APN's Ori Nir quoted in Emily Hauser's article on progressive American Jews' discomfort with Israeli
policies and practices
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.607841
The Forward - July 30, 2014
APN among US Jewish progressive groups not critical of Israel's Gaza incursion
http://forward.com/articles/203111/j-streets-gaza-war-support-wins-moderate-praise--/?p=all
Arutz 7 - July 30, 2014
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer criticizes Benett over call to broaden Gaza war
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183500#.U9v1TPldWbp
The following interview with Amos Oz, a co-founder of Israel's Peace Now movement and an icon of Israel's peace movement, was published in the English edition of the German Deutsche Welle
Oz: 'Lose-lose situation for Israel'
30 July, 2014
Israel's ground offensive against Gaza is excessive, Israeli writer Amos Oz tells DW. But he also criticizes Hamas' strategy, in which both Israeli and Palestinian victims boost the organization's standing in Gaza.
Amoz Oz: I would like to begin the interview in a very unusual way: by presenting one or two questions to your readers and listeners. May I do that?
Deutsche Welle: Go ahead!
Question 1: What would you do if your neighbor across the street sits down on the balcony, puts his little boy on his lap and starts shooting machine gun fire into your nursery?
Question 2: What would you do if your neighbor across the street digs a tunnel from his nursery to your nursery in order to blow up your home or in order to kidnap your family?
With these two questions I pass the interview to you.
--Haaretz's Amos Harel explains one of the reasons for the high number of Palestinian casualties.**
Listen to APN Briefing Call with Prof. Michael Walzer, America's leading expert on ethics in wartime
Listen to APN briefing call from Monday, August 4.
Walzer, a longtime member of APN's Board of Directors, is America's leading expert on ethics in wartime, and one of America's foremost political philosophers. He is the author of the iconic Just and Unjust Wars, a practical analysis of the Just War doctrine, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, the co-editor of Dissent, and contributing editor to the New Republic, where he published a new analysis of the ethical dilemmas of the Israel-Hamas war.
--Number of Palestinians killed Wednesday, probably the highest in a single day during Operation Protective Edge.**
Last semester, Ori Nir, APN’s Director of Communications and Public Engagement, came to American University to speak, and it was a jam-packed event. Some students came for the free pizza, but everyone stayed for Ori’s intelligent, open, and engaging conversation on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. That was when I knew I had to intern for APN.
Interning this summer with APN has given me invaluable tools to continue being a leader on campus and in general, and has taught me how to effectively do my part to work for peace. It is imperative that APN is able to continue their powerful campus outreach and internship programs. Please support APN’s efforts to empower the next leaders of the Jewish community and the country. I hope to raise $5,000 to help APN do this. At this time of chaos and violence, it is especially important that APN has the resources it needs to continue reaching out to young students and leaders who envision a brighter future. With APN’s help, we will work to make that future a reality.
Sincerely,
Hannah Ehlers
Summer Intern, 2014
Americans for Peace Now
--Dean of the law faculty at Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Shahar Lifshitz, apologizes to students for letter written by law professor Hanoch Sheinman, in which he expressed empathy for all of those affected by Gaza-Israel crisis.**