Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday February 9, 2018
Number of the day:
102.
--Number of US Congress members who urged US President Donald Trump not to slash funds to the UN Palestinian Aid Agency, URNWA.
--Number of US Congress members who urged US President Donald Trump not to slash funds to the UN Palestinian Aid Agency, URNWA.
Mark your calendars, and make your travel plans, to be in New York City on May 3 (Lag B'Omer) for APN's special event at the Chelsea Piers Sunset Terrace in New York City.
Honorees will be Michael Walzer, renowned political theorist, and Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and former APN Director of Policy and Government Relations.
On February 8, APN and 16 other Jewish organizations sent a letter authored and organized by NCJW to White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly expressing our deep concern that Senior Policy Advisor Stephen Miller does not belong in national leadership due to his extreme viewpoints and advocacy of racist policies.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday, February 8, 2018
You Must Be Kidding:
“Music is music, what does it matter what language it’s in? We live in Israel and we hear all the languages here: Arabic, Hebrew, Russian."
--Yusuf, an Arab-Israeli from Kafr Qassem reacted to the complaints by Jewish passengers of public buses about the Arabic music the Arab bus drivers put on the radio.**
“Music is music, what does it matter what language it’s in? We live in Israel and we hear all the languages here: Arabic, Hebrew, Russian."
--Yusuf, an Arab-Israeli from Kafr Qassem reacted to the complaints by Jewish passengers of public buses about the Arabic music the Arab bus drivers put on the radio.**
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Israeli Settlements & Annexation in the Trump-Netanyahu Era
Featuring Ak
iva Eldar (author and journalist, Al-Monitor) in
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Peace Now)
Tuesday, February 20th
10:00 - 11:30am
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Arab News: February 7, 2018
"Time to rise above anger when confronting Israeli extremism," Ray Hanania wrote
that Palestinians need to build relations with pro-peace Israeli groups such as Peace Now.
Arutz Sheva: February 5, 2018
"Left panics after Havat Gilad recognized," Quotes Hagit Ofran's explanation and
analysis of the government's adecision to legalize the illegal outpost after Rabbi Raziel Shevach's murder.
The Daily Star (Lebanon): February 5, 2018
"PLO to mull revoking recognition of Israel," Cites Peace Now calling the effort to
legalize the outpost a “cynical exploitation of the murder.”
Al Arabiya: February 4, 2018
"Israel begins distributing deportation notices to Africans, legalizes West Bank
settlement," Cites Peace Now saying the effort to legalize it is a “cynical exploitation of the murder.”
New York Post: February 4, 2018
"Israel to legalize settlement outpost deep in West Bank," Cites Peace Now calling
the effort to legalize the outpost a “cynical exploitation of the murder.”
Jerusalem Post: February 4, 2018
"Cabinet expected to give not to settlement status for Havat Gilad," Peace Now
warned sucha move would be a grave mistake and that it would need to be evactuated in a final status agreement.
Americans for Peace Now condemns in the strongest possible terms the murder of Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal, who was stabbed to death outside the West Bank settlement of Ariel. A teacher and father of four, Ben-Gal was a resident of the settlement of Har Bracha outside Nablus. A Hamas spokesman praised the killing as “a continuation of the resistance to Trump’s Jerusalem declaration.”