Americans for Peace Now joins its Israeli sister-organization, Peace Now, in strongly condemning the Israeli government's approval of constructing hundreds of new housing units in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. APN welcomes the Obama administration's statement, issued last night, which states that settlement expansion threatens the two-state solution and calls into question Israel's commitment to a negotiated resolution to the conflict.
Dror Moreh wrote this letter for Americans for Peace Now, because the only reasonable way to resolve the conflict is a two-state solution. And that's the message former Shin Bet directors make in his documentary The Gatekeepers.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday July 30, 2015
Quote of the day:
“At this crucial point of the Iranian issue – which for years has been at the core of Israeli foreign
policy and was described countless times by the Israeli leadership as an existential threat – the Jewish
community in the United States is not standing as a united front behind Israel and important parts of it are on
the fence."
--Israeli consul in Philadelphia wrote in a confidential telegram.
--Israeli consul in Philadelphia wrote in a confidential telegram.
You Must Be Kidding:
"We should send a D-9 [armored bulldozer] to raze the High Court."
--MK Moti Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi) reacts to High Court ruling.
Some are suggesting that Israeli national security experts are uniformly opposed to the Iran deal and support Netanyahu's efforts to block its implementation. In reality, there are more complex, nuanced views in Israel, as in the United States.
We will update this page regularly with new articles and statements from former Israeli military and national security officials and Israeli nuclear experts.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday July 29, 2015
Quote of the day:
“Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon today received the temporary appointment as the responsible adult in
the house of crazies in which we live."
--Maariv's senior political commentator Ben Caspit remarks on Yaalon's decision to stop protesting settlers.
You Must Be Kidding:
“You cannot evacuate outposts. We will plant bombs in judges’ cars."
--Written in letter addressed to High Court justices in the wake of the evacuation of settlers from settler buildings in Beit El that the court ordered destroyed.
You Must Be Kidding:
“You cannot evacuate outposts. We will plant bombs in judges’ cars."
--Written in letter addressed to High Court justices in the wake of the evacuation of settlers from settler buildings in Beit El that the court ordered destroyed.
On Friday, 24 July 2015, Peace Now held it's annual conference in Tel Aviv under the title: Israel Now - Building an Alternative." With 1,200 participants, many of them youth, this was Peace Now's largest conference of all time. Some 60 speakers - including Members of Knesset, journalists, civil society leaders, experts and activists - participated in different panels focusing on the two state solution; international pressure; identity politics; the parliamentary opposition; and the struggle against silencing and de-legitimization of peace organizations. Another issue highlighted at the conference was the struggle against the demolition of Palestinian village of Susya, which is taking place these very days.
Watch highlights of the conference here:
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday July 28, 2015
Quote of the day:
“You would expect to find him in the Palestinian village of Susya because Jesus was not a Jewish
settler. He was a rabbi for human rights.”
--Haaretz commentator Bradley Burston answers the question: ‘If Jesus were alive today, living in the Holy Land, where would you go about looking for him?’
--Haaretz commentator Bradley Burston answers the question: ‘If Jesus were alive today, living in the Holy Land, where would you go about looking for him?’
You Must Be Kidding:
"They have even started arranging them in groups of threes and moving them into rows like in recruit service, or playing with them, making one of them sit and the other stand up alternately."
--From testimony of a Border Police about humiliation of Palestinians, part of a report about wild-scale abuses against Palestinians at two checkpoints in West Bank run by Israeli Border Police.
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Israeli Nuclear/Security Experts on the Iran Deal (updated regularly!)
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This week, Alpher discusses ramifications of the Iran nuclear deal for US-Israel relations, as well as regionally; Israel’s relations with Jordan and Saudi Arabia; how Turkey has exploited the momentum of the Iran nuclear deal; and at this time, two weeks past the conclusion in Vienna of the Iran nuclear agreement with the international community, who is gaining and who is losing in the Middle East.