"...in attempting to limit the Arab reaction [to Trump's "Peace" plan], it will also find itself increasingly backing Arab governments’ repression of their own people. Is this what America stands for?"

Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland Professor and Non Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings, in Trump's Middle East plan: What does America stand for?

Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.

February 17, 2020, - On Security and Hypocrisy

Q. Israel is in the midst of its third Knesset election campaign in a year. Obviously, politics and hypocrisy go together, especially at election time when empty promises are fast and free. But hypocrisy and security?

A. Yes, and not just in and around Israel...

Q. Still, start close to home. Where is the hypocrisy in recent developments regarding Israel-Palestine?

A. Listen to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) speaking at the United Nations last week, with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert at his side...

Q. And hypocrisy more directly touching on Israel’s security?

A. We can start with Abbas’s recent announcement...

Q. Moving further afield in the region?

A. Idlib, in northwest Syria, is the current focus of fighting and massive humanitarian suffering...

Q. Is Russia any less hypocritical in its attitude toward Israeli attacks against Iranian weapons shipments and weapons depots in Syria?

A. No...

Q. Further afield, on the margins of the Middle East?

A. Afghanistan and Ethiopia offer two classic examples of hypocrisy at work...

APN Legislative Round-Up: February 14, 2020

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, and Letters
2. Hearings
3. On the Record

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PeaceCast #109: "Home Demolitions in the West Bank"

This episode features a conversation with three women, two Palestinian and one Israeli, who are at the forefront of the struggle against Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes in Area C of the West Bank. The three were in Washington as a part of Oxfam’s new initiative to raise consciousness in the United States to the problem of Palestinian home demolitions in the West Bank.

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Trump was put in the White House by God - so says U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman

New entries to The Friedman File: APN Watch on US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, cover his recent statements such as Israel need not wait "to annex settlements in the West Bank," that recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and all settlements in the West Bank is “a small price to pay” for the US, and that President Trump was put in the White House by God.

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