--The number of new settlement homes Israel plans to build in retaliation for the formation of the (widely accepted) Palestinian Hamas-Fatah unity government.**
--The number of new settlement homes Israel plans to build in retaliation for the formation of the (widely accepted) Palestinian Hamas-Fatah unity government.**
Note: News Nosh will be off tomorrow for Shavuot holiday.
-Meretz Chairwoman MK Zahava Gal-On calls on Israeli Prime Minister to reach out to new Palestinian unity government.**
--Haaretz Editorial calls on Israel to recognize the new Palestinian unity government.**
This week, Alpher discusses the challenges the new Palestinian "technocrat" unity government sworn in in Ramallah this week presents to Israel and the US; the strange melodrama over the election of Israel's next president and what this tells us about PM Netanyahu's functioning; the US swap of five Guantanamo prisoners with the Taliban for an imprisoned US army sergeant; and why does either country need a "hot line" emergency phone connection between Netanyahu and Putin?
Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes the swearing in of a new Palestinian Authority government, headed by current Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and comprised of apolitical technocrats.
--Number of Palestinians in Israeli jails who will be joining the 240 prisoners already on hunger-strike. **
Haaretz - May 28, 2014
APN's Ori Nir: American Jews are running out of patience with Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.595852
The Forward - May 29, 2014
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer quoted in APN Board Member Leonard Fein's profile of Dani
Dayan
http://forward.com/articles/199134/the-deceptive-style-of-settlement-leader-dani-daya/?
The Forward - May 30, 2014
APN spokesperson quoted in story on US Jewish peace groups
http://forward.com/articles/199129/american-dovish-groups-facing-grim-new-reality-aft/
--Dr. Elihu Richter, an Israeli professor who tried to visit the six Christian Iranian-British and Iraqi-British delegates Israel incarcerated at Ben-Gurion airport in 'intolerable conditions.'**
--Ori Nir, Spokesman of Americans for Peace Now, explains the dynamics behind Israel's loss of support from pro-Israel US opinion leaders, primarily progressive American Jews."**
While Israeli politicians flip the finger at the world to score points with right-wing voters at home, they are alienating Israel’s most important, loyal allies: Progressive U.S. Jews.
Lately, American friends are asking me whether Israeli leaders are thinking straight, whether they realize how unreasonable their statements sound here in Washington, and how odd some of their policies seem.