Update: this action, now closed, ran in May 2019. 

A new resolution introduced in the House of Representatives makes clear that only a two-state solution can ensure Israel’s future as a liberal democracy and national home for the Jewish people, while also fulfilling Palestinian national aspirations.

Ask your representative to co-sponsor this measure affirming the need for a two-state solution.

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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.

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News Nosh 5.13.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday May 13, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
"There is nothing more revolting: Jews preaching to Germans on why they should close their doors and throw out the migrants."
—Commentator Nitzan Horowitz writes in an Op-Ed during a visit to Berlin.
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News Nosh 5.12.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday May 12, 2019
 
Quote of the day:
"In our advanced age it is about time for us all to decide if 71 is the Age of Reason or the Age of Dementia. We are a strong but frightened state, advanced and also dark, feeling safe and also unstable, thriving, but many of its inhabitants are poor. The Middle Eastern neighborhood was and still is difficult, but today it is much less threatening. There are opportunities to deepen our roots in this place..."
--Alon Ben-David, military commentator for Channel 13 News, writes in Maariv.*
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News Nosh 5.8.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday May 8, 2019
 
Quote of the day:
“Heroism is not a military term. Wherever there is sacrifice, there is heroism… The opposite of heroism isn't cowardice, but selfishness. A selfish person can be brave, but he cannot be a hero...Heroism is sacrifice, and it doesn't have any cruelty in its nature. It is the highest form of service. It is founded on the love of humanity…Only a person who has a lot within him, can give back a lot. He who has a thin personality has nothing to offer to the greater good of others…He who is ignorant cannot be a hero, since ignorance means no interest in those who surround you. Lack of interest means a lack of love, and where there is no love there is no sacrifice, and thus no heroism.”
—In an Op-Ed in Yedioth, former IDF deputy chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan quotes commander of the Palmach and a founder of the IDF, Yitzhak Sadeh, and writes: “Just imagine how our lives would have look like if our public sector had more people with the quality of heroism? People who don't live by a desire to rule over others, or limit themselves to their own personal gain; people who use knowledge to increase our society's human riches rather than to accumulate financial gain. People who have a lifestyle of loving their neighbor, whomever he or she may be. Imagine that leaders would be such heroes, like Yitzhak Sadeh was.”
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APN Statement on Israel-Gaza Violence

Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes the ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas, while recognizing that it will provide only a lull between flareups. Security and stability for Israelis and Palestinians depend on a political settlement for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

APN strongly condemns the barrage of some 700 rockets launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from the Gaza Strip at civilian communities in southern Israel. We stand with our Israeli brothers and sisters.

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News Nosh 5.6.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday May 6, 2019

 
Number of the day:
Despite the escalation in the south, 47.9% of Israel's Jewish public still supports peace talks with the Palestinians.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Tactically speaking, the round in Gaza should have ended with 700 dead terrorists (one for every rocket) and with massive physical damage to Hamas - so that it would take them years to recover."
--MK Bezalel Smotrich, who hopes to be appointed Justice Minister, calls for killing one Palestinian for every rocket launched from Gaza.**
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Hard Questions, Tough Answers (May 6, 2019) - Gaza, West Bank: It’s all choreographed

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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.

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News Nosh 5.5.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday May 5, 2019

 
Quote of the day:
 

You Must Be Kidding: 
“Dearest residents of the south, just don’t forget while you are running to the bomb shelters that Bibi gives good speeches in English.”
—A social media post by one of numerous Israelis, who blamed the people of the south for their problems because they voted for Bibi.*
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News Nosh 5.2.19

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday May 2, 2019
 
Quotes of the Day #1:
“No one tells [Israeli children] that although the annihilation was unique, the laws that led up to it were not. Go tell the children (dressed) in the white shirts that the decision to exterminate was taken legally, and that the terrible killings were perpetrated not by monsters but by ordinary citizens who respected the law and observed regulations. Go explain to these kids in white that there are laws you must follow and laws you mustn’t. That there are good laws and bad laws, and that the accumulation of some laws is called a ‘process.’ They won’t be told that even in legally-based processes one can identify worrying signs; go tell them that what begins as ‘court-overriding clauses’ can easily turn into ‘tyranny.’

"Holocaust Remembrance Day doesn’t belong in our current reality. The dead are forgotten, the survivors abandoned. The lessons have not been learned. Racism is flourishing and hatred is winning. As if the Holocaust never happened.

—Commentator Yossi Klein writes on Holocaust Remembrance Day.”*
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