--Tamer Nafar, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and a renowned rapper, writes that - despite everything - Arabs in Israel should vote.*
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Dear friend,
Amid reports that Trump is considering publishing his political plan before Israel’s general election, I met, together with several other representatives of the Israeli Peace Camp, with US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. I thought you would be interested in the content of this meeting.
At the meeting, we expressed our dismay regarding the US government's actions in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Specifically, we argued that unilateral moves by the Trump administration are further undermining trust between Israelis and Palestinians and may spark a new round of violence, the price of which will be paid by Israelis and Palestinians on the ground.
We reminded the Ambassador that most Israelis continuously and unwaveringly support the two-states solution. We reiterated that these Israeli citizens favor a solution guaranteeing peace and security over the Greater Israel one-state vision, which would spell an end to a democratic Israel, and would run afoul of the shared values at the core of the special relationship between our two countries.
--Former Israeli peace negotiator and politician, Yossi Beilin.*
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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 fact that an Arab decided to make an attack and my brother was killed in it does not mean that I will put an X on the whole sector. I have many Arab friends and I really love them.”
--Jewish Israeli chef, Shlomi Nahum, talks about life and cooking after two of his brothers were killed.*
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--The left-wing Democratic Camp blasted the housing plan presented by the far-right-wing Yamina list: to build over 100,000 housing units in the occupied Palestinian Territories for over half a million Israelis.**
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“Ideology with practicality” to help “erase the Green Line."
--Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich explains the thinking behind the Yamina list's housing plan.**
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Americans for Peace Now is outraged by President Trump's statement suggesting that the vast majority of American Jews are disloyal, and strongly condemns it. This outrageous, anti-Jewish slur fans the flames of Jew hatred in the US and puts American Jews in danger.
Trump's comment also poisons US-Israel relations, attempting to shatter bipartisan US support for Israel's security and wellbeing, for Trump's own political gain.
“During this period of a difficult struggle against the right-wing, a courageous partnership is needed between those who seek civil and national equality, social justice, the end of the occupation and a just peace between the peoples.”
-The statement by the Joint List at the launching of the party’s campaign in Hebrew Tuesday in south Tel-Aviv.*
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Kahanist party, Otzma Yehudit, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party filed a joint appeal on Tuesday with the High Court against the Central Election Committee's decision to allow the Arab-majority Joint List to run in the September 17 election, claiming that the Joint List supports terror.**
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Check out these excerpts featuring Debra Shushan, APN Director of Policy and Government Relations, on CGTN's "The Heat" from August 19, 2019, on the topic: "Israel Denies Entry to Two Members of US Congress."