Leading Palestinian pollster and scholar Khalil Shikaki, in a
conversation from his Ramallah office, reviewing key challenges facing Palestinians and their leaders, and
explaining the dwindling support among West Bank and Gaza Palestinians -- particularly the younger generation
-- for the creation of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state.
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On Thursday January 11, 2018, APN hosted leading Palestinian political scholar and pollster
Khalil Shikaki for a briefing call on current challenges facing the Palestinians and on trends in Palestinian
public opinion.
In Arabic, Fauda means chaos. It's also the name of a popular
Israeli TV series that has made it on the international scene. Fauda's co-creator Avi Issacharoff, an Israeli
journalist, talks about the show's surprising success, about the message that he and his co-creator Lior Raz are
trying to convey to the Israeli audience and to the world through the show, and about the odd reactions to
Fauda's second season's publicity campaign.
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On December 7th, 2017, APN hosted former US consul General in
Jerusalem, Jacob (Jake) Walles. Ambassador Walles spoke about the repercussions of President Trump’s recognition
of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and his decision to start preparations for transferring America’s Israel
embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Jacob Walles is a nonresident senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Israeli-Palestinian issues, Tunisia, and counterterrorism. Throughout his 35-year career in the foreign service, he was U.S. ambassador to Tunisia (2012 to 2015), consul general and chief of mission in Jerusalem (2005 to 2009), and served as senior adviser in the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism (2015 to 2017). During his long career at the State Department, Walles was actively involved in Middle East peace negotiations, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991 and continuing through the Obama administration.
On December 7th, 2017, APN hosted former US consul General in Jerusalem, Jacob (Jake)
Walles. Ambassador Walles spoke about the repercussions of President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital and his decision to start preparations for transferring America’s Israel embassy from Tel Aviv
to Jerusalem.
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.
Daniel Seidemann, director of Terrestrial Jerusalem, is one
of the world’s leading experts on Jerusalem, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and Jerusalem-related requirements
for a future Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.
On November 14th 2017, APN hosted Seidemann for a discussion about the current situation in Jerusalem and the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
On November 2nd 2017, APN hosted a briefing call on efforts to confront anti-boycott legislation
that violated Americans’ First Amendment liberties and conflates Israel and West Bank settlements. Our briefer
was ACLU Staff Attorney Brian Hauss, who leads the American Civil Liberties Union’s litigation on this issue.
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After a hiatus of about a month (vacation, Jewish High Holidays, heavy workload), PeaceCast is returning with a
special episode, marking the 30th anniversary of the first intifada, the Palestinian popular uprising that started
on December 9th 1987.
This episode features conversation between three reporters who covered the first intifada: Mary Curtius, who then reported for the Christian Science Monitor and later for the Boston Globe, Joel Greenberg, who then worked for the Jerusalem post (and later covered Israel for the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and other US and British newspapers) and Ori Nir, who then covered Palestinian affairs for Israel’s Haaretz.
You might expect Daniel Shapiro, Barack Obama’s ambassador to Israel, to dismiss the Trump administration’s rickety
Israeli-Palestinian peace brokering efforts.
Surprisingly, Shapiro believes that Trump and his aides have only marginally strayed from traditional U.S. policies on the issue. In fact, he says, more than in any other policy arena, the Trump administration is exercising more continuity and adherence to past administrations’ policies in the field of Israeli-Palestinian relations.
This episode is based on a September 14th 2017 APN briefing call with Ambassador Shapiro. It is preceded by a conversation between APN’s Stephanie Breitsman, Debra Shushan and Ori Nir, PeaceCast’s host.
