Israel’s Peace Now movement was one of several Israeli peace and human rights organizations that participated on Tuesday, June 22nd, in an event titled ‘After 54 years: Between Occupation and Apartheid.’
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.
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Webinar Recording - Supporting Peace, Conditioning Aid
Supporting Peace, Conditioning Aid
with APN Staff
APN is unveiling new policy position in support of conditioning United States aid to Israel. This position stems from our conviction that the US aid should not be used to cement and perpetuate the occupation, and thus undermine the long-term prospects for peace and the security of Israelis and Palestinians. Read President and CEO Hadar Susskind's article in Time magazine laying out the new policy here.
Listen below to the recording of a webinar discussing that new position.
Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) today rolled out a new policy position supporting the conditioning of the military aid Israel receives from the United States. The new policy position is laid out in an article published today in Time Magazine by APN’s President and CEO Hadar Susskind.
For the Good of Both Countries, US Military Aid for Israel Must Be Conditional
By: Hadar Susskind
When I served as a combat soldier in the Israeli military, I carried an American-made M-16. I drove American jeeps and fired American missiles.
As a dual American-Israeli citizen who has spent years in both countries, my commitment to Israel did not end with
my army service. From my home in the U.S. the past 20 years, I’ve been in the trenches of the Israeli-Palestinian
peace movement for nearly all of my life. It is from this vantage point of caring deeply for both Israel and the
U.S., and in my capacity as President and CEO of Americans for Peace Now, that I am calling on the U.S. government
to condition its annual 3.8 billion dollars of military aid to Israel. We are the first
progressive Zionist organization to endorse conditioning aid, and we do not take this step lightly. But what has
become abundantly clear, underscored by the horrifying images coming out of Gaza, East
Jerusalem and inside Israel last month, is that continuing to give
Israel military aid without conditions neither serves U.S. policy interests—nor, I would argue, does it serve
Israel.
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.
Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes the swearing in of Israel's new government and wishes it success in addressing the challenges that the state of Israel faces.
APN bids farewell to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and wishes success to incoming Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
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
& Letters
2.
Targeting Ilhan Omar (again)
3. Hearings &
Markups
4. On the
Record
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.