Recently, APN Director of Policy and Government Relations Lara Friedman was invited to speak at two events for the American University in Cairo (AUC), organized under the auspices of AUC’s Prince Alwaleed Center for American Studies and Research, part of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. The first lecture, entitled “The Middle East and the 2016 U.S. Elections,” took place on March 13, 2016 at AUC's historic Oriental Hall on the Tahrir Square campus. The second lecture, titled “A Conversation with A Washington Insider: Americans for Peace Now's Lara Friedman,” took place March 14, 2016 at AUC's campus in New Cairo.

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News Nosh 05.18.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday May 18, 2016
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
This year the Jerusalem municipality tripled the budget for a polarizing annual flag march, where right-wing Jews celebrate the conquering of E. Jerusalem by marching through the city - and through the Muslim Quarter, which the majority of the Jewish public opposes.
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News Nosh 05.17.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday May 17, 2016
 
You Must Be Kidding:
Israel's Culture Minister Miri Regev, who supports a bill to end state funding for art institutions that are not 'loyal' to Israel, gave a speech at the Cannes Film Festival meant to encourage foreign film companies to engage in joint ventures with Israeli companies, saying Israel's beauty lies in its contrasts – between left-wing and right-wing, secular and religious, Jews and Arabs. 
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Peace Parsha: A Calculation of Suffering

 Peace_Parsha_Logo185Rabbi Rachel Miller Solomin is a Jewish educator, writer, life coach, and mother living and working in California’s Silicon Valley. She was ordained from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in 2001.

Several years ago, on a bright California Sunday, I had a car accident involving pedestrians.  By maneuvering my car, I had avoided hitting them head-on. The family involved incurred only minor physical damages, but they were traumatized.

Since then, I have been struck by the relationship of these events to the Jewish laws of monetary damages. This week’s Torah portion, Emor, contains the biblical origins of these laws: “If anyone maims his fellow, as he has done so shall it be done to him: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The injury he inflicted on another shall be inflicted on him” (Leviticus 24:19-20, my emphasis). This formula, known variously as the lex talionis, reciprocal or retributive justice, assigns penalties appropriate to the injury. In the Torah, “an eye for an eye” is intended to limit consequences to proportional justice rather than permitting vengeance killings in response to minor injuries. When the accident happened, I ran out of my car and collapsed, sobbing apologies, beside scared, crying children in their stroller. The children’s mother suggested I move away from the kids -- ”If my husband sees you, he’ll kill you.”

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May 16, 2016 - Hamas, Hezbollah, China and BDS

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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.

This week, Alpher discusses the State Comptroller’s report on conduct of the summer 2014 war with Hamas in Gaza and its significance; why, unlike Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon appears to remain highly reticent to engage Israel militarily again; impressions and insights that are relevant to Israel in his travels in Canada and New Zealand; and why Israel is, relatively speaking, smug about dealing with BDS and even the EU boycott of settlement goods.

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News Nosh 05.16.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday May 16, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"This is a significant struggle like no other, perhaps the most vital and important one in many years. Not just over the character of the IDF, but also the character of Israeli society."
--Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon did not mince words in an Independence Day speech last night.**
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News Nosh 05.15.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday May 15, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"...those who don’t want comparisons to historical periods and the identification of trends, should give up the slogan "One People, One State" formed by the marching (IDF) soldiers with flags.”
--Yedioth's Television reviewer Einav Schiff wrote about the controversial slogan used by the Nazis that appeared in Israel's Memorial Day ceremony.
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News Nosh 05.13.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday May 13, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"[But] even in difficult moments, when your blood boils and rage is high, we mustn't lose our way or our values. Our morals and ethics should be sanctified; compromising them could push our society down a slippery slope. We must use force when necessary, but also understand its limitations and its ability to desensitize us. We must maintain our purity of arms and our humanity, we must not lose our heads."
--Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said in a speech marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen.**


Breaking News:
Top Hezbollah commander killed in Syria
In the biggest blow to Hezbollah since Imad Mughniyeh's death in 2008, top commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in an explosion near Damascus. Lebanese media blamed Israel. Hezbollah MP said group will respond at "the appropriate time." (Israel Hayom and Ynet)
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Yesterday morning, as I always do, I began my morning with OJ and News Nosh. I read a terrifying interview by Maariv’s Lior Dayan with extremist settlers of West Bank illegal outposts, and a sober essay by political scientist Revital Amiran, describing why the discussion in Israeli society about the soldier who shot dead the neutralized terrorist in Hebron is a watershed event. Neither article is available in English anywhere else.

News NoshThe day before that, I was outraged to learn that Israel had expropriated land from a Palestinian family and handed it over to Amana, the settlers’ organization that establishes new West Bank settlements.

Every day, what I read in News Nosh helps me to stay informed about the infuriating aspects of the conflict as well as the difficult work of Israelis and Palestinians to resolve it. There is simply no other service that offers so much on the issues I care so deeply about – and it’s free!

This daily news aggregator of the Hebrew press gives you not only the up-to-the-minute news, but also summaries of the top stories and analysis. You can surf the web for Israeli news sites, struggle with Hebrew and pop-up ads, or you can let APN do the work for you. All you need to do is sign up.

 

Thank you,

Mik Moore
Board member, Americans for Peace Now

 

News Nosh 05.11.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday May 11, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“We won’t give up the hope of making peace with our enemies, but first we’ll reconcile within ourselves.”
--Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the opening state Memorial Day ceremony Tuesday evening, recognizing publicly, possibly for the first time, the existence of the growing rifts in Israeli society [between right and left, Mizrachi and Ashkenazi, Jews and Arabs], which many accuse him of making deeper.
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