What Peace Now does best, from Shaqued Morag, Peace Now Director

by APN 07/08/19
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My friends in America,

Last Sunday, we at Peace Now demonstrated outside the inaugural ceremony for the “Pilgrimage Road” tunnel at Jerusalem’s Old City Basin.

While the tunnel exposes a meaningful archeological discovery, it was built recklessly by the settler group Elad under the homes of the Palestinian residents of Silwan, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as part of their future capital.

For us, the most infuriating part of this ceremony was the participation of Trump's “peace” team: Ambassador David Friedman and Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt.

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APN's Ori Nir in Ha'aretz: "Religious Fanatics Have Hijacked America's Israel Policy. And They're Not Even Evangelicals"

by APN 07/08/19
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Trump's extremist, maverick pro-settler envoys, David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt, aren't resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They're fueling it - and Congress should investigate

With ten-pound hammers in their hands and ecstatic religious-nationalist zeal in their hearts, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and White House Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt stood underneath the most religiously volatile place on earth, and smashed a wall – and with it, any last semblance of reasonable U.S. policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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News Nosh 7.7.19

by APN 07/07/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 7, 2019

 
Revealed Exchange of the Day:
Lev Tov: “We’re talking about a population – women and children?”
Peled: “All, all. Yes.”
Lev Tov: “Don’t you distinguish between them?”
Peled: “The problem is very simple. The war is between two populations. They come out of their home.”
Lev Tov: “If the home exists, they have somewhere to return to?”
Peled: “It’s not armies yet, it’s gangs. We’re also actually gangs. We come out of the house and return to the house. They come out of the house and return to the house. It’s either their house or our house.”
Lev Tov: “Qualms belong to the more recent generation?”
Peled: “Yes, today. When I sit in an armchair here and think about what happened, all kinds of thoughts come to mind.”
Lev Tov: “Wasn’t that the case then?”
Peled: “Look, let me tell you something even less nice and cruel, about the big raid in Sasa [Palestinian village in Upper Galilee]. The goal was actually to deter them, to tell them, ‘Dear friends, the Palmach [the Haganah “shock troops”] can reach every place, you are not immune.’ That was the heart of the Arab settlement. But what did we do? My platoon blew up 20 homes with everything that was there.”
Lev Tov: “While people were sleeping there?”
Peled: “I suppose so. What happened there, we came, we entered the village, planted a bomb next to every house, and afterward Homesh blew on a trumpet, because we didn’t have radios, and that was the signal [for our forces] to leave. We’re running in reverse, the sappers stay, they pull, it’s all primitive. They light the fuse or pull the detonator and all those houses are gone.”
--A segment of an interview that a special Israeli unit, Malmab, decided to conceal from the interview that historian Boaz Lev Tov conducted with Maj. Gen. (res.) Elad Peled. An Israeli historian revealed that since early last decade, Israel's Defense Ministry teams have scoured local archives and removed troves of historic documents to conceal proof of the Nakba and that it was Israel's military operations against the local Arabs that caused them to flee - and not their leaders.*

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APN/Peace Now In The News: June 29 - July 5, 2019

by APN 07/05/19
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Ha'aretz: "For Progressive Jewish American Activists, 'Never Again Is Now' – and Israel Is Yesterday's News " (July 5, 2019)

"Young progressive American Jews are both value-driven and politically astute," says Ori Nir of Americans for Peace Now. "Trump's immigration policy moves them ethically while granting them an opportunity to make political alliances going into a presidential election year."

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Times of Israel: "Subterranean hammering blues: 7 things to know for July 1" (July 1, 2019)

Peace Now, which protested the event, is widely quoted calling the event "no less than American recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the sensitive area of the Holy Basin."

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Times of Israel: "Under Palestinian homes, US envoys hammer open an ancient East Jerusalem road" (June 30, 2019)

Several dozen activists from the Peace Now settlement watchdog protested outside the East Jerusalem event. The left-wing NGO has branded the Pilgrimage Road "the controversy tunnel," adding that it had "caused the evacuation of Palestinian homes in the neighborhood and increased tensions between Palestinian residents and Jewish settlers, who have been acting more intensively than ever in recent years to Judaize the neighborhood, as part of an effort to sabotage the two-state solution."

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Arutz 7: "Peace Now members to protest against US Amb. David Friedman" (June 29, 2019)

Peace Now is protesting the inauguration ceremony of a tunnel in east Jerusalem. 'This is a trampling of Jerusalem.'

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News Nosh 7.4.19

by APN 07/04/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday July 4, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
"Israel has developed a map of correctness for itself showing that some racism and violence are permissible and some are not. The police will be informed about it in the next few days."
--Haaretz's Gideon Levy writes that Israel cannot have a morality which bans the killing of people based on their skin color (the Ethiopian-Israelis), but allows the killing of others because of their nationality (Palestinian).*

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The Dove - Young Voices of Israel/Palestine - July 22, 2019 - Washington, DC

by APN 07/03/19
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The Dove: Young Voices of Israel/Palestine - Monday, July 22, 6:30 pm, Washington DC

Join us, or be a sponsor, for an evening of personal stories that inspire hope for Israeli-Palestinian peace, based on the popular storytelling show “The Moth”. 

This is the fourth event in our "The Dove" series, and will feature a new group of young Israeli and Palestinian storytellers who will be in Washington to participate in the New Story Leadership program, a co-sponsor of this event. GET TICKETS

If you can't make it to the event, help support this unique program with a sponsorship donation of any amount. Amplify the voices of young Israeli and Palestinian leaders, who together are charting a path of peace and reconciliation between their peoples. SPONSOR 

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News Nosh 7.3.19

by APN 07/03/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday July 3, 2019

 
Quote of the Day #1:
“Judaism is an adjective that modifies my Arabness.”
--Jewish-Arab-American journalist, Massoud Hayoun, wrote a book about his Egyptian grandfather and his own identity.*

Quote of the Day #2:
“There is a process of deligitimization in which we are being painted as criminals and violent people even though we are experiencing the violence.”
—Avi Yalou, a social activist, said about the protests over police brutality towards Ethiopian-Israelis.**

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News Nosh 7.2.19

by APN 07/02/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday July 2, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
“If the policeman had seen a group of white-skinned youth squabbling, his hand would never have gone to his gun.”
—Labor party MK Shelly Yachimovich said following the killing of an Ethiopian-Israeli youth by an off-duty police officer.*

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PeaceCast: From Soldier to Peace Activist

by APN 07/02/19
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Eran Nissan is the Project Coordinator at Israel's Peace Now movement, the Israeli sister-organization of Americans for Peace Now. This summer, he is one of eight fellows participating in the annual summer program of Washington's New Story Leadership (NSL), and interning at APN.

In this conversation, Eran tells the story of his becoming a political activist, following his service as a combat soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.

Eran and his fellow NSL scholars will be featured in a subsequent episode of PeaceCast next month, when we live-record this year's edition of The Dove, our annual storytelling event. Stay tuned.

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News Nosh 7.1.19

by APN 07/01/19
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday July 1, 2019

 
Quote of the Day #1:
"...What about honor, about values? Think about yourself, about your father. What did this boy contribute to the state? Did he give one percent of what I contributed? Of what my son, who serves in a special military unit, contributes? Has he once visited our military cemeteries? What did he do in his life?"
--IDF Brig. Gen. (res.) Hasson Hasson, former Military Attaché to the President and a member of the Druze community, said in response to a Tweet post by Yair Netanyahu, the son of the Prime Minister, which the Israeli Druze community felt mocked them.*

Quote of the Day #2:
"Two Trump lawyers from New York and two casino moguls from Las Vegas smashing walls and coexistence in Jerusalem."
--Haaretz commentator Anshel Pfeffer refers to the controversial partipation of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, along with Sheldon and Miri Adelson, in the ceremony inaugurating a settler archaeological project in E. Jerusalem, a tunnel that runs under Palestinian homes.**

Breaking News:
Israel Strikes Iranian Targets in Syria, Report Says; 16 Killed, including baby, 21 Wounded
Syrian air defenses responded to attacks on Homs and Damascus outskirts launched from Lebanese air space, Syrian state media says. Syrian anti-aircraft missile fired at Israelis hits Turkish Cypriot mountainside, no casualties. (Haaretz and Ynet)

Iran Says It Has Exceeded Enriched Uranium Stockpile Allowed Under Nuclear Deal
(Haaretz and Israel Hayom)

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