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Americans for Peace Now: July 22, 2020
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"Be kind, be hopeful, be optimistic, never get down. It's all gonna be okay, all gonna be alright. We're one people, we're one family. We all live in the same house, not just the American house but the world house. I wish you well."
John Lewis, Civil rights legend and 30-plus year Georgia Congressman who passed away July 17, in a 2019 video message [ [link removed] ] to a child studying about him in school. (Posted by Elijah Jacob Mears.)
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Issue Briefs
Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher [ [link removed] ]
July 20, 2020 - Annexation? Elections? It's corona and the economy, stupid. [ [link removed] ]
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.
Q. Netanyahu's approval rating is plummeting. There is little talk of West Bank annexation or of a fourth round of elections. What happened?
A. Netanyahu and his unwieldy coalition have been hit by a "triple corona"...
Q. Are the covid-19 figures in Israel really that frightening?
A. The controversy over how to read the figures and how to respond is as prominent in Israel as elsewhere...
Q. So January 2021 is not necessarily a critical date for Netanyahu.
A. ...the next critical date is August 28... If the Knesset has not approved a budget by then, new elections are automatically triggered...
Q. Your bottom line?
A. ...while annexation appears to have dropped off the agenda, Iran has not...
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Government Relations [ [link removed] ]
APN Legislative Round-Up: July 17, 2020 [ [link removed] ]
Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace [ [link removed] ] in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived
* Bills, Resolutions, and Letters
* FY21 NDAA - House
* FY21 Defense Approps - House
* Hearings and Mark-Ups
* On the Record
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Tell your Senators to cosponsor the Van Hollen amendment to prevent US tax dollars going to illegal Israeli annexation. GO HERE [ [link removed] ]
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APN Events
TOMORROW, Thursday, July 23, 2:00 pm Eastern
Zoom Briefing: "Annex and Dispossess: Peace Now's Hagit Ofran on her New Report"
Israel's Absentee Property Law is used to dispossess Palestinians of their properties in East Jerusalem and transfer their homes to settlers.
Hagit Ofran of Peace Now's Settlement Watch team will lay out the way in which Israeli authorities use this law now, and how it could be used if Israel annexes in the West Bank, particularly in the Jordan Valley.
Hagit Ofran is the co-director of Settlement Watch, a project of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now). She has two decades of expertise on issues related to settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
REGISTER HERE [ [link removed] ]
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Peace Now Activists at Pro-Democracy/Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrations
The worsening situation of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, its decimating impact on the economy, and the mishandling of it by Prime Minister Netanyahu (whose corruption trial has now begun), is bringing thousands of protestors to the streets throughout Israel. Peace Now has been actively participating with signs proclaiming "Democracy Now, Annexation Never!"
Go HERE [ [link removed] ] for pictures on Peace Now's English Facebook.
Go HERE [ [link removed] ] to watch a clip of Peace Now demonstrators outside the Knesset (from @peacenowisrael [ [link removed] ] on Twitter)
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In The News
Jewish Insider: "Former Israeli security officials thank Dem House members for opposing annexation"
A group of 41 Israeli former senior security officials have sent a letter of appreciation to Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Brad Schneider (D-IL), Ted Deutch (D-FL) and David Price (D-NC), the authors of a letter signed by 191 House members and sent to Israeli leaders expressing opposition to annexation.
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Go HERE [ [link removed] ] to read the Israeli letter
Go HERE [ [link removed] ] to read the House of Representatives' letter
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