--Prof. Asa Kasher, who wrote the IDF's ethics code told a special Knesset discussion on purity of arms that Sgt. Elor Azaria was wrong to kill Palestinian assailant Abdul Fattah Al-Sharif.**
Peace Now reports:
Last night, Channel 2 News reported that Prime Minister Netanyahu intends to argue to American officials that the
new settlement for the Amona outpost evacuees should not be considered as such. Yet based on its proposed location,
the new settlement, often referred to as “Geulat Zion,” cannot be considered as anything but a new settlement.
Geulat Zion is located approximately 2.5 kilometers east of Shilo, on an empty hilltop, and beyond the settlement’s
jurisdiction.
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 Trump's plan to bring Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to Washington and to send special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt to Israel and Palestine; possible advantages this administration might have over its predecessors in sponsoring a peace process; Trump's drawbacks as a peace mediator; possible collaboration with the region’s Sunni Arab states that need Trump's support against both Iran and ISIS; whether peace process issues are flexible enough to sustain concessions and enable creative compromise in the spirit of Trump’s brand of deal-making; and whether Trump's emerging team of negotiators are aware of important nuances.
Americans for Peace Now on February 27th 2017 sponsored a panel discussion at J Street’s national conference on West Bank settlements with MK Tamar Zandberg, APN’s Lara Freidman, Peace Now’s Lior Amihai and moderated by Haaretz’s Amir Tibon.
APN Panel on Settlements 27 February, 2017 from Americans for Peace Now.
Americans for Peace Now’s Ori Nir on February 27th 2017 delivered a talk at J Street’s national conference on the basics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
APN: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 101 from Americans for Peace Now.
Since the mid-1990s, the settlers established nearly 100 illegal outposts and built dozens of neighborhoods and illegal projects in many settlements. In 2015 alone 15% of the units constructed in the settlements was illegal.
During the past year, Settlement Watch conducted extensive research on illegal construction in settlements and outposts. The data collected exposes a process parallel to the official planning process in the settlements – that of illegal construction. This parallel process is what allows for thousands of housing units to remain on the ground, and be connected to roads and infrastructure.
Peace Now's study reveals that three main bodies operate this parallel and illegal process: (1) Settlement Regional Councils, (2) Settlement Division and (3) Amana. The Israeli government enables the illegal system to exist by cooperating directly with these three bodies, by abstaining from law enforcement or prosecution, and by retroactively legalizing the illegal constructions.
Through this illegal mechanism, Israeli governments have allowed a small group of settlers to set Israel's settlement policy and thereby determine the future of Israel.
Key Findings:
Haaretz: March 9, 2019
"Am I Too Dangerous to Enter Israel?"
By Letty Cottin Pogrebin
If supporting a non-violent boycott of the settlements makes me an enemy of the Israeli state, so be it. But Israel's border officers will have to hear my story before they turn me away for good. Continue reading...
Times of Israel: March 8, 2017
"UK's
Johnson tours West Bank settlements with Peace Now," UK Foreign Secretary receives briefing on West Bank
settlements from Peace Now
Associated Press: March 8, 2017
"Johnson
says Britain still backs 2-state solution in Mideast," UK Foreign Minister tours the West Bank with Peace Now
New York Times: March 7, 2017
"New
Israel Law Bars Foreign Critics From Entering the Country," APN's Lara Friedman quoted on new Israeli
"Entry Law"
Voice of America: March 7, 2017
"Israel to Close
Borders to Backers of Pro-Arab Boycott," APN calls Israel’s new anti-BDS bill a “severe blow to Israeli
democracy.
Jerusalem Post: March 7, 2017
"Settlers
call on UK's Foreign Secretary Johnson to Visit," After learning that UK Foreign Secretary will meet with Peace
Now for a briefing, settler leaders say they want to meet him, too.
Jewish Telegraph Agency: March 6, 2017
"Knesset
bans entry to foreigners calling for boycotts of Israel," APN’s CEO, Debra DeLee, warns that Israel’s new
anti-BDS bill violates of its own democratic principles, most notably the freedom of political expression.
Jerusalem Post: March 6, 2017
"Anti-settlement
Peace Now to Brief UK's Boris Johnson on Settlements," Peace Now’s Lior Amihai to brief British Foreign
Secretary, Boris Johnson, on the status of settlements on Wednesday, March 8.