Americans for Peace Now's President and CEO Debra DeLee and our Chairman of the Board Jim Klutznick represented APN last night at a meeting for Jewish community leaders with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in New York.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) joins its Israeli sister organization, Israel's Peace Now movement, in strongly condemning the killing of two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank over the Sukkot holiday weekend.
This week, Alpher discusses the strategic challenges Israel confronts in the United Nations General Assembly session opening this week, why the Israeli government, alone, is criticizing President Rowhani's moderate statements, how we get from the Iranian Syrian non-conventional weapons issues to attempts to restrain Israel's nuclear potential, and why Russia is so interested in a failed state like Syria, and what consequences we can expect in the wake of two IDF soldiers killed in recent days in the West Bank, and an incident over the demolishing of Arab dwellings in the Jordan Valley that got Israel into trouble with the European Union.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday September 22, 2013
Quote of the day:
"...it wouldn't take long for Israel and other critics of Iran to sorely miss (Rouhani's) predecessor,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
--Haaretz US affairs commentator Chemi Shalev writes how the new Iranian President has made life difficult for
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday September 20, 2013
Quote of the day:
"We hope...that the law will be enforced and the Israelis staying there will be removed and the Palestinian
owners can return safely to their lands."
--Yesh Din Israeli human rights organization comments on the return of private Palestinian land to their owners
after 35 years since the establishment of Homesh settlement.**
Beginning Wednesday night, September 18th, the Jewish holiday of Sukkot begins. During the week-long holiday, Jews build a special kind of home to dwell in for the week, called a sukkah. The sukkah is a deliberately temporary house, which can have no more than one permanent wall, and whose roof must be open to the sky, covered only partially by natural materials such as branches. The sukkah is a strange sort of dwelling, and yet, it is so important, that we use it every Friday night on Shabbat, as a metaphor for peace, asking that God, "spread over us a sukkah of Your peace." May this year's sukkah be a sukkat shalom, a sukkah of peace, and may we merit to build our house - Israel- from peace.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday September 18, 2013
NOTE: News Nosh will be on holiday during most of Sukkot, which begins this evening.
Number of the day:
10.
--Length in centimeters of the biggest date in the world, a Saudi Arabian variety, that will be on display in Israeli President Shimon Peres' sukkah.**
Beginning Wednesday night, September 18th, the Jewish holiday of Sukkot begins.
During the week-long holiday, Jews build a special kind of home to dwell in for the week, called a sukkah. The
sukkah is a deliberately temporary house, which can have no more than one permanent wall, and whose roof must be
open to the sky, covered only partially by natural materials such as branches. The sukkah is a strange sort of
dwelling, and yet, it is so important, that we use it every Friday night on Shabbat, as a metaphor for peace,
asking that God, "spread over us a sukkah of Your peace."
May this year's sukkah be a sukkat shalom, a sukkah of peace, and may we merit to build our house - Israel- from
peace.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday September 17, 2013
Quote of the day:
"This right-wing is sitting in the government and speaking about two-states for two peoples, release Palestinians
prisoners and is making diplomatic moves. This is very surprising and, of course, it is the result of the Oslo
Accords."
--Yossi Beilin, an author of the interim peace agreement, says it made the right-wing more
left-wing.**