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The below letter was sent to Secretary Blinken on April 28, 2022
Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived
1. Bills,
Resolutions, Letters
2. Hearings
3. On the Record
New from FMEP this week:
- UPCOMING Webinar 4/26/22: Legalized Discrimination: How Israel’s “Citizenship & Entry” law harms Palestinian families by design, ft. featuring Member of Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash/Joint List), Dr. Morad El Sana (American University) and Dr. Hassan Jabareen (Adalah) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP)
- Podcast 4/22/22: Not a “Cycle of Violence” but a Cycle of Impunity, ft. Saleh Hijazi (Amnesty International) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) about the root causes of the violence currently in the headlines
- Podcast 4/19/22: (Another) Crisis in Jerusalem – an Israeli Perspective, ft. Aviv Tatarsky (Ir Amim) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP)
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.
The following article was published by Haaretz on April 17th 2022
End Times for Israel: The Apocalyptic ‘Quranic’ Prophecy Electrifying Palestinians
By Ori Nir
The most interesting finding in the latest Palestinian public opinion survey shows that 73 percent of Palestinians polled in the West Bank and Gaza Strip believe the Quran includes a prophecy regarding the demise of the state of Israel.
If you follow Palestinian social media, you’ll know that this finding relates to a popular theory devised by a prominent Palestinian West Bank Islamist scholar, Dr. Bassam Jarrar, a longtime Hamas spiritual leader and a YouTube icon, with almost 700,000 subscribers.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s round of talks today with senior Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders in an effort to contain the current violence and reduce tensions at Jerusalem’s holy sites and beyond.
Featuring Daniel Seidemann

Just like last spring’s violent escalation, Israeli and Palestinian extremists have been adding fuel to the fire in the past few days, particularly in Jerusalem, in an around the Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif.
Following a series of terrorist attacks inside Israel, violent clashes in West Bank towns and villages surged last week. Adding to the rising tension, Israeli extremists marched on the West Bank illegal outpost of Homesh on Tuesday, igniting Palestinian protest, and are planning a march of flags in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Gaza militants launched a rocket toward Israel, triggering an Israeli bombing attack. It seems like all the familiar ingredients are in play to set off another round of all-out violence, a replay of last spring’s inter-communal violence and Israel-Hamas war.
To discuss the situation in Jerusalem and beyond, APN was joined for a webinar with Jerusalem expert Daniel Seidemann on Thursday April 21st at 1:00 pm Eastern Time.
Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived
1. Bills,
Resolutions, Letters
2. Hearings
3. On the Record
New this week:
- New episode of FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts podcast,“Surging Violence” Narrative Ignores Ongoing Structural Violence Against Palestinians,” ft. Amjad Iraqi (+972 Magazine) in conversation with FMEP’s Lara Friedman.
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.