Avner Gvaryahu is the executive director of Breaking the
Silence, an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the
Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life
in the Occupied Territories.
APN’s Debra Shushan and Ori Nir spoke with Avner on October 30th, 2019.
Vist Breaking the Silence’s website and follow Avner on Twitter at @AGvaryahu.
Dr. Marwan Muasher, currently the Amman-based Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, was Jordan's foreign minister, deputy prime minister, information minister, Jordan's
ambassador to the United States and its first ambassador to Israel. He was deeply involved in the peace process,
and helped compose the Arab Peace Initiative.
We met him in Amman as part of Americans for Peace Now's study tour to the region.
This episode is an edited version of our conversation with him. Due to technical difficulties, questions asked by members of our group could not be recorded. Some of Dr. Muasher's comments are in reply to questions that are not in this recording, which sometimes makes his remarks a bit difficult to follow.
Dr. Muasher, recorded on November 5th 2019, refers to meetings that our group was to have the next day (in his words "tomorrow") with Jordanian government officials.
This episode features the panel discussion that Americans for Peace Now sponsored at the J Street National conference in Washington DC on October 27th, 2019.
Included are the full presentations of the three panelists -- former Palestinian ambassador to Washington Maen Areikat, Peace Now's director Shaqued Morag, and Yesh Din director Lior Amihai -- as well as the introduction by Debra Shushan, APN’s policy and government relations director.
An edited recording of a panel that APN hosted on Capitol Hill
on 10/26/19, featuring two representatives of our Israeli sister organization, Peace Now (Shalom Achshav),
Israel’s peace movement.
Peace Now’s Shaqued Morag and Brian Reeves spoke about the danger to Israel that West Bank annexation poses – both the de-facto annexation that is being advanced every day on the ground in the West Bank and the de-jure annexation that Israel’s right-wing government is vowing to advance.
Their talk was a window into the current agenda and the emphases of Israel’s peace movement, as well as the challenges that the Israeli peace camp faces.
This episode features a conversation with Menachem Klein, a
professor of Middle Eastern studies at Bar Ilan University, who specializes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He is the author of several books on the topic. His new books is Arafat and Abbas: Portraits of
Leadership in a State Postponed.
Yuli Tamir is one of the founders of Israel’s peace movement, Peace Now. She is a former minister in the Israeli government and a former Knesset member. She is a professor of philosophy and now the President of the Shenkar College near Tel Aviv.
This episode of APN's podcast features a presentation that Nizar
Farsakh and Ori Nir gave at Ithaca College on September 17th. The talk was an attempt to make the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict more accessible to young people by weaving personal narratives of an
Israeli-American and a Palestinian-American into the collective national narratives of Israelis and
Palestinians.
In this special episode of PeaceCast, APN’s Debra Shushan and Ori
Nir are the interviewees rather than the interviewers on the Bill Press Pod. A co-production.
Erez Maggor, an Israeli social scientist who specializes in the history and the political economics of the West Bank settlement, says that the impetus for the West Bank settlement policies of the Likud government in the late 1970s and 1980s is largely misunderstood.
What chiefly pushed the Israeli government to build across the Green Line, he says, was not an ideological Greater Israel zeal but rather a demand by the Likud’s low-income electoral base for affordable housing.
Maggor is a doctoral candidate at New York University’s Department of Sociology.
On June 14th 2009, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a major policy speech at Bar Ilan University, in
which he endorsed the two-state solution. 
On its face, it was a revolutionary statement. Until then, Netanyahu was the most visibly identified Israeli politician with opposition to Palestinian statehood.
Today, ten years later, it is clear that Netanyahu’s political worldview did not undergo a metamorphosis. Rather, it was a rhetorical ploy to deflect US pressure under President Obama.
A new article by Dr. Guy Ziv of American University documents and analyzes what led up to the landmark Bar Ilan
Speech, and what happened in the past decade to Netanyahu’s stated endorsement of an idea that has always been
anathema to him.
Yuli Tamir is one of the founders of Israel’s peace movement, Peace Now. She is a former minister
in the Israeli government and a former Knesset member. She is a professor of philosophy and now the President of
the Shenkar College near Tel Aviv.
