APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday May 20, 2020
You Must Be Kidding:
While on leave, a Givati brigade soldier from Dolev settlement dressed in uniform and carrying his weapon, stopped Palestinian cars at a fake checkpoint near his settlement, removed the occupants and then stole the cars.*
In response to the formation of Israel’s new government, which is officially committed to annexing parts of the West Bank, eight members of the Progressive Israel Network, including Americans for Peace Now, together released the following statement:
We are frustrated and alarmed by the intention of the new government, formed by Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, to unilaterally annex parts of the West Bank. We join with all Americans who refuse to sit idly by as Israel’s new government, with the encouragement of the Trump administration, contemplates action blatantly at odds with any commitment to democracy and the pursuit of peace.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Tuesday March 10, 2020
Quote of the day:"After all the empty talk about an 'emergency government,' they set
up the biggest, most wasteful government in Israel's history – 36 ministers, 16 deputy ministers. In Israel, there
are currently fewer than 50 corona patients on ventilators. There are more ministers and deputy ministers than
patients being ventilated.”
—Opposition leader MK Yair Lapid said
in an impassioned speech at the swearing-in of the new government.*
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.
Dr. Erekat is Secretary General of the PLO’s Executive Committee and served for many years as the Palestinian chief negotiator with Israel.
Hear him address the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations as a result of the Israeli government decision to annex large parts of the West Bank. Included was discussion on Tuesday's declaration by the Palestinian Authority that agreements with Israel and the US, including those that are security-related, would cease.
APN's daily news review from IsraelSunday May 17, 2020
Quote of the day:"I really don't get the your disregard for Jordan. Look at the
Israeli citizen, right or left, he does not care about this peace. It is a strange indifference, as if the Israeli
public takes us for granted, while Netanyahu acts disdainfully toward the Royal House."
--Jordanian Dr. Dureid Mahasana
talked about the Israel-Jordan relationship through Jordanian eyes and about the Israeli plan for
annexation of West Bank lands in an interview with Yedioth's Arab Affairs correspondent, Smadar Perry.*
The announcement comes as liberal pro-Israel groups mount a pressure campaign to
influence Washington politicians to speak out against plans in Israel to annex parts of the West Bank.
By RON KAMPEAS/JTA MAY 14, 2020
Americans for Peace Now, an influential group on the Jewish Left that was among the first to advocate for the two-state solution, is naming as its president Hadar Susskind, a veteran senior official of an array of Jewish groups.
1. Bills, Resolutions,
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2. Hearings
3. On the Record
Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
APN's daily news review from Israel - Thursday May 14, 2020
NOTE: Americans for Peace Now (APN) is thrilled to announce
that its Board of Directors has appointed Hadar Susskind as APN’s new President and CEO, effective tomorrow, Friday
May 15th. Born in Israel and raised in the US, Hadar comes to APN after a rich, diverse career in Washington DC,
advocating for peace, fighting for democracy, and championing social justice. Hadar joins APN during the most
challenging threat posed to date to the two-state solution: annexation. Hadar will be responsible for leading the
organization and charting new paths for it at a time of great challenges for APN’s
mission.
Quote of the day:
"And finally, this is not murder. If Sgt. 1st Class Ben-Yigal was murdered, then 15-year-old Zeid Fadl
Qasiya, who was shot to death by soldiers in the Al-Fawar refugee camp, was definitely murdered. If a rock-throwing
terrorist is a murderer, then the fighter who shoots teenagers is also a murderer."
--Commentator Gideon Levy writes a sharp Op-Ed about the cycle of violence between
Israelis and Palestinians.
The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) has conducted its monthly ‘Israeli Voice Index.’ This index tells us a lot about Israeli opinion on COVID-19. There were 830 respondents to the survey and the questions were conducted in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew. The respondents are a representative cross-section of Israeli society in terms of age, gender and ethnicity.
One interesting result from this investigation is that when asked how they would rank the government’s performance in handling the pandemic medically on a scale of 1 (very poor) to 10 (excellent), 29% of respondents rated it 10/10:
