--Michal Peleg, an activist with the left-wing Ta'ayush organization, slams the Israeli media for its collaboration with the Occupation, in a powerful Op-Ed in Haaretz+.
APN's Lara Friedman takes part in discussion following show on Israel-Palestine in DC (1/19/2016, Foreign Policy in Focus)
Peace Now condemns West Bank land expropriation (1/21/2016, AP/Boston Globe)
Peace Now: Netanyahu government expropriates 370 acres in West Bank (1/20/2016, AP/ABC News)
Peace Now: Netanyahu government returning to land expropriations in the West Bank (1/20/2016, Reuters)
Peace Now report: Right-wing Israeli nonprofits hide their funding sources (1/19/2016, Jewschool blog)
News from Peace Now's (Israel) Settlement Watch:
Today, (January 21st, 2016), settlers took over two houses in Hebron near the Cave of the Patriarchs. The settlers broke into the houses claiming to have purchased them from the Palestinian owners. It was reported that the owners deny having sold their houses and plan to take legal measures to force the settlers out and maintain ownership on their property.
Even if the houses were truly bought by the settlers, it is still in the hands of the Israeli government to decide whether to allow them to settle in the houses. The authority to establish a settlement in the West Bank rests exclusively in the hands of the Government of Israel, irrespective of any ownership claim. Every purchase of property in the West Bank by Israelis must be approved by the Minister of Defense, and such an approval have yet to be granted.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) strongly condemns the Israeli government's decision to confiscate some 380 acres in the West Bank. The expropriated land, according to Israeli media reports, is intended for Israeli settlers' use.
In a speech delivered in at a conference in Tel Aviv on January 18th, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro spoke the truths about Israeli policies and about U.S. concerns for Israel’s future.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has criticized Ambassador Shapiro for his comments. Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has demanded that he recant them and apologize. A former aide to Netanyahu went so far as to use an offensive anti-Jewish slur against the Ambassador.
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In a speech delivered in at a conference in Tel Aviv on January 18th, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro spoke the truths about Israeli policies and about U.S. concerns for Israel’s future.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has criticized Ambassador Shapiro for his comments. Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has demanded that he recant them and apologize. A former aide to Netanyahu went so far as to use an offensive anti-Jewish slur against the Ambassador.
Did Ambassador Shapiro get the facts wrong?