Peace Now in the News: November 18 - December 1, 2017

Haaretz: November 29, 2017
"Israeli Attorney General Seeks to Save Buildings in West Bank Outpost From Demolition," After Peace Now wins Supreme Court petition, Israel's Attorney General seeks ways to save illegal outpost homes from demolition.

Jerusalem Post: November 29, 2017
"AG weighs savings six settler outpost homes," Attorney General tries to save settler outpost homes that Court ordered demolished after Peace Now won Supreme Court petition.

JewSchool (by American Jewish Peace Archive): November 26, 2017
"Israelis Rising Up: Remembering with Yuli Tamir and Janet Aviad," A tribute to Peace Now and two of its founders.

Jerusalem Post: November 23, 2017
"IDF weighs new tool to legalize settler outposts," Peace Now's lawyer rejects Israeli Attorney General's new tool for legalizing illegal outposts.

Times of Israel: November 22, 2017
"AG: Outpost law discriminates against Palestinians, should be repealed," Peace Now criticizes Israeli AG decision to allow expropriating privately-owned Palestinian land for access road to illegal outpost.

APN in the News: November 8 - December 1, 2017

APN Director of Policy and Government Relations Debra Shushan in Haaretz: November 30, 2017
"David Friedman Is Unfit to Be U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Fire Him."

America has a problem in Tel Aviv.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has politicized his diplomatic office and misrepresented U.S. policy on Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians. In the process, he is causing real damage to our country’s interests in the region. Read More >

Washington Jewish Week: November 29, 2017
"Race is on for year-end giving," Like other small Jewish groups, APN is busy with end-of-year fundraising efforts.

JTA: November 22, 2017
"Arab American groups offer PLO office space if it’s shut down," APN among groups urging the Trump administration not to shut down PLO office in DC.

News Nosh 12.1.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
December 1, 2017
 
Number of the day:
26.
--Percentage of Israelis who believe that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is suitable to be Prime Minister. Down from 36% three weeks ago.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Jewish-Arab City of Haifa Refuses to Add Arabic Signage to Stadium Facade
The municipality says it won't add a sign in Arabic to the facade of the Sammy Ofer Stadium because of an 'agreement with the donor.'
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Friedman's recent comments show the 'moderate' positions he adopted during his nomination were entirely fake. How can the U.S. ambassador to Israel smear opponents, act as a representative of Israel's settlers and misrepresent U.S. policy?

America has a problem in Tel Aviv.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has politicized his diplomatic office and misrepresented U.S. policy on Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians. In the process, he is causing real damage to our country’s interests in the region.

Ambassador Friedman has been, to say the least, a controversial figure since before he emerged as President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to serve as US ambassador to Israel. By now, he has provided ample reasons to conclude that he should be fired.

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APN to Trump: Don't Transfer Israel Embassy to Jerusalem

Alarmed by reports that the Trump Administration is considering immediate action to move the US Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Americans for Peace Now is calling on President Trump to eschew this dangerous action.

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News Nosh 11.30.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday, November 30, 2017
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
Plans for expansion of the city of Acre, which is 1/3 Muslim Arab, don't include a mosque.**


Breaking News:
A Jewish settler shot dead a Palestinian farmer in disputed circumstances in the northern West Bank
Settlers and IDF said Palestinians attacked the settlers with stones while the settlers hiked through Qusra village and Israeli media gave settler/IDF version. Associated Press and Israeli NGO Yesh DIn reported that Palestinian farmer Mahmoud Odeh, 47, was working on his land when settlers coming from Esh Kodesh outpost told him to leave. He refused and was shot in the chest, said Palestinian Authority settler watch official Ghassan Daghlas. (Associated Press, Ynet, Haaretz, Maariv)
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As a part of our series on the first intifada, as its 30th anniversary approaches, this episode features a conversation with Mubarak Awad, the Palestinian-American who in the mid-1980s returned to Jerusalem, determined to lead a revolution, to get the Palestinians to shift from armed struggle to nonviolence. Awad got in trouble with both the Israeli authorities, which ended up deporting him, and with the PLO, which at first viewed him as a sellout, a collaborator and a traitor, but ended up embracing and adopting many of the methods he advocated.

Awad is the founder and director of Nonviolence International.

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News Nosh 11.29.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday November 29, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
“Because in Israel there aren’t really political parties. A single governing bloc is made up of interchangeable parts, including everyone who seeks legitimacy by donning right-wing costumes. They’re ready to expel foreigners, support antidemocratic legislation, observe the Sabbath and keep it holy, stick a note in the Western Wall, and let the settlements do as they please.”
—Haaretz journalist Zvi Bar’el writes that the Israeli government is aiming for a one leader, one party, one people. And “if anyone is reminded of a party in a different country that adopted a similar slogan in the 1930s, that’s his problem.”*
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News Nosh 11.28.17

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday November 28, 2017
 
Quote of the day:
"You are not a victim and you are not persecuted. You are the prime minister of Israel, and there are important things on the agenda. It is impossible to take this wonderful country and turn it into the private business of one person with everything aimed to save him from his interrogators."
—Yesh Atid Chairman, MK Yair Lapid, slams Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his government for passing the bill to prevent police from giving recommendations regarding investigations into public officials to the Attorney General.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Calling Palestinian petitions to the High Court of Justice a “legal intifada,” lawmakers from the Netanyahu government moved to raise the fees so that Palestinians and those representing them must pay triple what Israelis pay to petition Israel's High Court.**
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From Peace Now's Settlement Watch:

The past few months have seen unprecedented developments in the settlements, causing severe damage to the chances of a two-state solution. Accelerated population growth, approvals of housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, promotion of bypass roads, advancements of Knesset bills, home demolitions and changes in legal interpretations - all lead to a situation of de-facto annexation of area C. Without any official declarations, the Israeli government is preventing the viability and contiguity of a future Palestinian state, while treating lands in area C as its own. The implications of the abovementioned developments are far-reaching for Israel, the Palestinians and the region as a whole. 

Peace Now's new report summarizes key developments of the last several months and analyzes their impact, individually and together, on the viability of a Palestinian state alongside Israel and the possibility for a two state solution.

Even with the lack of a final status agreement in sight, it is our duty today to struggle in order to prevent silent annexation efforts and to assure the possibility of a two state solution on the ground.
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