Event 4/11: John Kerry's Framework: More of the Same, or a Fresh Approach to Israel-Palestine Peace?
This week, Alpher discusses the flurry of obstructive peace process-related events of the past week, what derailed the process, and what could save it; the broader international situation; more basic or strategic factors informing the crisis; how serious the immediate damage is and how all this affects Israeli politics.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday April 07, 2014
Quote of the day:
"This will put Shfaram and the rest of the communities on the map."
--Shfaram mayor Amin Anabtawi is thrilled that Israel will finally give his town and other Arab and Druze towns in
Israel street names and house numbers and street signs.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday April 06, 2014
Quote of the day:
"I came to be with them, to condemn the acts and actions (of) terrorists who try to harm the innocent. We
will not let this carry on."
--Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich visited the Arab village of Gush Halav, Jish, in the Western
Galilee, where the tires of 40 cars were punctured and hate graffiti was sprayed, ostensibly by Jewish citizens.**
Time.com (AP story), 2 April, 2014
Peace Now: Israel to build more in East Jerusalem
http://time.com/46548/watchdog-israel-moving-forward-with-east-jerusalem-construction/
Associated Press, 2 April 2014
Peace Now: Israeli commitment to "restrain" settlement planning would be meaningless because so much
construction is under way
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/Palestinians-We-don-t-want-Kerry-mission-to-fail-5369204.php
AFP, 1 April 2014
Peace Now: Israeli government reissues tenders for East Jerusalem settler homes
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140401/israel-reissues-tenders-e-jerusalem-settler-homes
Voice of Russia (AFP story), 1 April, 2014
Israel reissues tenders for East Jerusalem settler homes
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_01/Israel-reissues-tenders-for-E-Jerusalem-settler-homes-NGO-3385/
Huffington Post, 31 March, 2014
ATFP Youth Outreach Coordinator writes about her organization's partnership with APN
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tala-haikal/youth-factor-the-missing-_b_5064632.html
Jerusalem Post, 31 March 2014
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer: Livni and Lapid parties will have to leave coalition if negotiations
fail
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Left-vows-Well-pressure-Livni-to-quit-if-talks-fail-346982
Haaretz, 30 March, 2014
APN's Lara Friedman op-ed: What Israeli-Palestinian mutual recognition really means
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.582833
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday April 04, 2014
Quote of the day:
"Our goal now is to stop everything - we are hardening our positions and then we will start from the
beginning."
--An Israeli official tells Yedioth that Israel's strategy is sanctions against the Palestinians in order to get
them to stop their UN bids - and get back to the negotiating table.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday April 03, 2014
Quote of the day:
“Although Netanyahu is genuinely concerned about isolation and demography, he believes that the current
status quo is the best option.”
--Molad director Avner Inbar shares the view held by many at a conference of security and foreign policy experts
this week in Jerusalem.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday April 02, 2014
Number of the day:
708.
Number of tenders Israel issued yesterday for housing units over the Green Line, while it still
thought it had a deal to get the peace talks extended and the spy, Jonathan Pollard, released. But then it got a
surprise.**
Haaretz - March 24, 2014
APN's Ori Nir op-ed: Two-staters, unite behind Kerry
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.581723