Join us for our upcoming live webinar (accessed via computer
or phone), co-sponsored by APN and Partners for Progressive Israel:
"Deal of the Century": What Now for the Israeli Left?
Discussion with:
· Aluf Benn, Editor-in-Chief of Haaretz
· Akiva Eldar, columnist for Al-Monitor’s Israel
Pulse
Moderator: Jodi Rudoren, Editor-in-Chief of The Forward.
Thursday, March 12
12:30 - 1:30pm Eastern Time / 9:30 -10:30am Pacific
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The Jerusalem Post: "Bennett advances 1,800 new settler homes, says won’t give land to Arabs" (February 27, 2020)Peace Now said of the plans, “The caretaker government, without a public and moral mandate, sets facts on the ground for a small and extreme minority, against the will of the majority. In the battle over the settler right-wing vote, Bennett and Netanyahu are dragging Israel to invest in thousands of harmful and unnecessary settlement units. This is how a cynical and irresponsible leadership that is willing to abandon the Israeli interest for its political survival behaves." Read >> |
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San Francisco Chronicle (AP): "Watchdog: Israel moves ahead with hundreds of settler homes" (February 27, 2020)Israel is moving forward on plans to build more than 1,700 homes for settlers in the West Bank, the settlement watchdog Peace Now said Thursday. Read >> |
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The Times of Israel: "UN slams ‘worrying’ Israeli plans to build in West Bank, East Jerusalem" (February 26, 2020)The Peace Now settlement watchdog reported that Defense Ministry officials met with planners last week to prepare an outline for a new road for Palestinians that would go around E1 and Ma’aleh Adumim and allow Israel to annex the area. “The only roads Israel paved for Palestinians in its 52 years of control over the Territories were designed to allow Israel to build settlements or barriers that block existing Palestinian routes,” Peace Now said, blasting the road plan. Read >> |
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Jerusalem Post: "Peace Now: Tender issued for 1,077 homes in Givat Hamatos" (February 25, 2020)Peace now warned that the settlement would “sever” the territorial contiguity of a Palestinian Jerusalem-Bethlehem metropolitan area. Read >> |
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New York Times (AP): "Netanyahu Plans Settlement in Contentious West Bank Area" (February 25, 2020)Israeli activist group Peace Now said in a statement that settlement construction in E1 “means that Israel is officially choosing to perpetuate the conflict instead of resolving it.” Read >> |
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The Jerusalem Post: "Netanyahu: Mapping process has begun, sovereignty to follow" (February 25, 2020)Netanyahu has pushed forward the project to help cement Israel’s hold on a united Jerusalem. Peace Now has warned that it would “sever” the territorial contiguity of a Palestinian Jerusalem-Bethlehem metropolitan area. “Construction in Givat Hamatos is a serious blow to the two-state solution,” Peace Now said. “This is the last point enabling territorial continuity between Bethlehem and east Jerusalem.” Read >> |
Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived
1.Bills, Resolutions and Letters
2. The 2020 AIPAC Policy Conference
3. Hearings
4. On the Record
Over the past week, Israeli authorities advanced three new
settlement initiatives around East Jerusalem, which would cut it off from the West Bank and deny contiguity to
a future Palestinian state. These initiatives come days before Israel’s national elections and as a
joint Israeli-American committee starts determining the status of West Bank settlements.
Listen to Jerusalem expert and longtime analyst Daniel Seidemann on APN's urgent briefing call from Friday, February 28th when he discussed these developments and the Israeli government’s preparatory measures to annex large swathes of the West Bank.
Danny Seidemann is an attorney specializing in legal and public issues in East Jerusalem. He is widely considered as the leading expert on Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. For over three decades, Seidemann has worked on issues and cases related to government and municipal policies and practices in Jerusalem, representing Israeli and Palestinian residents of Jerusalem before the statutory Planning Boards. Danny is the founder and director of Terrestrial Jerusalem an Israeli NGO that works to identify and track the full spectrum of developments in Jerusalem that could impact the city’s political future or destabilize it.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) is alarmed at the Israeli
government's advancement of three new settlement initiatives around East Jerusalem, which would deny contiguity
to a future Palestinian state.
These are plans that in the past were blocked by US administrations, both Republican and Democratic. Now -- less than a week before Israel's general elections, and as a joint Israeli-American committee starts discussing the status of West Bank settlements – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going ahead with the most consequential settlement plan in years.
