Debra DeLee - A Career Worth Honoring

by APN 09/04/18
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Honoring Debra DeLee for 21 Years with Americans for Peace Now
COME CELEBRATE WITH DEBRA!

Please join us on October 24, 2018 at 6 pm at the Decatur House
748 Jackson Place NW, Washington, DC 20006
as we celebrate the extraordinary career of our good friend
Debra DeLee
Please RSVP by September 15, 2018


I  WOULD LIKE TO HONOR DEBRA with a Tribute ad.
Tributes will be projected at the event and included in a commemorative book for Debra

 

THE SARA FUND

Debra has requested that donations be made in honor of  her friend and long time APN board member Sara Ehrman (ZTz"L):

Click on the image above to donate to The Sara Fund

Debra DeLee's 21 Years at APN

Throughout her professional life, Debra DeLee has been working to secure a better future for others. She started her career as a fourth-grade teacher in the 1970s, dedicated to her students and the imperative of quality public education. Working her way through the ranks of the National Education Association (NEA), DeLee became the NEA's Political Director and chief lobbyist in Washington. As NEA Director of Government Relations and Director of its political action committee she worked to ensure fair working conditions for teachers and quality public education for students. Prior to joining Americans for Peace Now in April 1997, DeLee was selected by President Clinton to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which she designed, developed, and managed for the president. Preceding the convention, DeLee served as Executive Director and Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and in 1994 was appointed DNC Chair. As the President and CEO of Americans for Peace Now for over 21 years, DeLee has worked tirelessly to promote American support for peace in the Middle East and support for the Israeli peace movement — Shalom Achshav — working to secure a better future for Israel and her neighbors.

News Nosh: 9.4.18

by APN 09/04/18
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday September 4, 2018

 
You Must Be Kidding: 
"Welcome to all those who are making Aliyah and blessed are those who are leaving. This isn't your country, this country will always be the State of Israel and all the traitors—out!”
--At Ben-Gurion Airport, MK Moti Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi party) told Arab MKs from the Joint List faction who were departing.**
Quote of the day:
"Yogev, I told you to take your medicine three times a day. You forgot again?"
--MK Ahmad Tibi, who is also a medical doctor, responded to MK Moti Yogev.**
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Peace Now Sunday meeting with Abbas

by APN 09/04/18
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Peace Now Director Shaqued Morag sitting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas
On Sunday, Peace Now organized an Israeli delegation to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. The delegation brought activists, senior Peace Now staff, and MKs Ksenia Svetlova (Zionist Union) and Mossi Raz (Meretz). 

We sought to make a statement that constructive dialogue with the Palestinians is possible and needed. That statement was echoed loud and clear, as the Palestinian leader took the opportunity with Peace Now not just to repeat his ardent support for the two-state solution, but also to divulge details for the first time on his meetings senior U.S. officials Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt.
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Hard Questions, Tough Answers (September 04, 2018) - The Oslo Accords, 25 years later

by APN 09/04/18
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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: 9.3.18

by APN 09/03/18
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday September 3, 2018
 
Quote of the day:
"One can believe that the settlers of the outpost really thought that this was not private land belonging to Palestinians, but it is difficult to attribute total innocence and honesty to anyone who builds without permits in an illegal outpost. If they would have bothered to ask for approval for a construction plan, the (Israeli) Civil Administration would have immediately discovered that this was private land and then (the settlers) would have been saved from robbing."
--Peace Now's Settlement Watch Director, Hagit Ofran, explains in five points in Ynet that there is no way that the Israeli outpost, which was built on privately owned Palestinian land, was established in 'good faith,' as the Jerusalem District Court claimed.*
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PeaceCast #53: "Dammit, I'm mad" – A conversation with Debra DeLee

by APN 08/31/18
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August 30th, 2018 was Debra DeLee’s last day as Americans for Peace Now’s President and CEO. As she was packing up her office, Debra sat down with PeaceCast’s host Ori Nir and with APN’s Director of Policy and Government Relations, Debra Shushan.

We talked about Debra’s frustration with America’s Jewish establishment’s inability to confront the moral challenges related to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We talked about the leadership role of women in Jewish organizations. We talked the wonderful people that comprise the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement in the United States. And we talked about hope.

Debra led APN for the past 21 years, through thick and thin, and has been one of the most influential figures in the movement. In addition to her professionalism and her leadership skills, Debra is a mensch. Her humanity and charm clearly shine in this conversation.

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News Nosh: 8.31.18

by APN 08/31/18
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday, August 30, 2018

Quote of the day:
“One government minister told me recently that the Arabs in Israel usually behave as an exemplary minority, certainly considering the ongoing conflict, and that most of them truly aspire to become part of Israeli society. But that cannot be said publicly, he told me, because in Israel such a statement costs you two or three Knesset seats.”
--Haaretz+ commentator, Ravit Hecht, writes that there is only a “thin veneer that still masks the racist regime in Israel,” where the right-wing government passes the Nation-State Law, right-wing politicians incite against Arabs, the court approves the seizure of privately-owned Palestinian land to give to settlers, and where many support the convicted ex-soldier Elor Azaria, from a “deep-seated fundamental belief that a Palestinian who did wrong should be killed on the spot, like a stray dog.”

You Must Be Kidding: 
A pro-Kahane Israeli group is raising funds in the US with tax-exempt status, even though the Kahane-related organizations, Kach and Kahane Chai, are listed as terror organizations.
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News Nosh: 8.30.18

by APN 08/30/18
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APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday August 30, 2018
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who compared himself to Hitler, will inaugurate a Holocaust memorial in Israel.**
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i24 Spin Room (8/29/18): Shushan on Elor Azaria, Court Ruling on Outposts, & Nikki Haley on Palestinian Refugees

by APN 08/30/18
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Debating Ruthie Blum of the Gatestone Institute, Shushan discussed Hebron shooter Elor Azaria's interview stating "I have no regrets" in Israel HaYom, the Israeli court ruling granting settlers in an outpost rights to private Palestinian land, and Nikki Haley's statement on the status and right of return of Palestinian refugees.

Israeli Soldiers Forced to Carry Out an Immoral Occupation (00:22)

Taking Refugees "Off The Table" (00:18)

Debunking the Right-Wing Narrative on Palestinian Refugees (4:13)

Legislative Round-up: August 24, 2018

by APN 08/30/18
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Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived

1. Bills, Resolution, & Letters
2. On the Record
 

NOTE: Jewish News Syndicate – Al Jazeera, among other foreign news outlets, targeted under new defense bill (press release from Daniel Pipes/Middle East Forum is here).
 

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