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Americans for Peace Now: November 18, 2020
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"Creeping annexation cannot be a policy that the U.S. government supports if we wish to see peace in the region."
Congressman Mark Pocan, with 40 additional US Representatives, in a letter to Secretary of State Pompeo [ [link removed] ] protesting the Israeli demolition of a Beduin Village, and demanding the US condemn it and commit to preventing future displacement.
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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher [ [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.
Meanwhile, on the periphery (November 16, 2020) [ [link removed] ]
Q. What periphery? Whose periphery?
A. In Israeli strategic, political and economic parlance there are quite a few 'peripheries'...
Q. Does Israel have domestic peripheries?
A. There is the Jerusalem periphery... the Gaza periphery... the periphery of Israeli politics...
Q. Where do we start?
A. Iran...
Q. The al-Masri assassination is an American and Israeli triumph. But elsewhere on the Middle East periphery developments do not appear to be as positive for American interests...
A. Indeed, take Nagorno Karabakh for example...
Q. And Ethiopia?
A. This is yet another area on the Middle East periphery where the US should be deeply involved in restoring tranquility but isn't...
Q. Western Sahara, too?
A. Here we encounter the same presidential-transition timing for renewed fighting...
Q. Is there a bottom line to all this?
A. There is, and it is related to the troubled presidential transition times the United States is going through...
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Government Relations [ [link removed] ]
APN Legislative Round-Up: November 13, 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 SFOPS - Senate
* Hearings and Markups
* On the Record
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APN Events
Webinar with Yossi Alpher: ""Israel and the Biden Administration" "
Tuesday, November 24th at 12:00 Noon EST
As part of our series examining the Middle East policy impact of transitioning from the Trump to the Biden administration, this webinar presents a view from Israel with strategic affairs analyst Yossi Alpher.
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APN to Pompeo: Don't Visit Settlements!
Commenting on what will be a first visit of a US Secretary of State to an Israeli settlement, APN's President and CEO Hadar Susskind said: "Instead of going to a wine tasting in a settlement, Secretary Pompeo should be focused on spending his time working to help ensure a peaceful transfer of power to the incoming administration. His efforts to legitimize the illegitimate and normalize Israel's occupation of the West Bank do nothing to help bring about a better future for Israelis and Palestinians."
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APN Welcomes Resumption of Israel-PA Cooperation
The resumption of security and civilian cooperation between the Palestinian Authority and the government of Israel is good news for Israel, the Palestinians, and all stakeholders in the conflict.
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Settlement Watch
Israel Advances Devastating Jerusalem-area Settlement Project
Israeli authorities opened the bidding process for 1,257 housing units to be built in Givat HaMatos, and unless stopped, it will further block Palestinian contiguity between Jerusalem and Bethlehem and deal a severe blow to a viable two state solution.
Peace Now: "This Netanyahu-Gantz government was established to fight the coronavirus but instead it is taking advantage of the final weeks of the Trump administration in order to set facts on the ground that will be exceedingly hard to undo in order to achieve peace."
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APN to Senators: Settlement Products are not "Made in Israel"
APN strongly condemns an initiative by four Republican Senators - Cotton, Loeffler, Rubio, Cruz - to label products made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as being "Made in Israel." If the West Bank becomes a part of the sovereign state of Israel, Israelis will be forced to choose between becoming an undemocratic apartheid state and becoming a bi-national state that is no longer Jewish.
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APN Audio
PeaceCast Episode #154: Re-fund UNRWA
Elizabeth Campbell, director of UNRWA's Representative Office in Washington, DC, discusses the reasons for UNRWA's current budgetary crisis since the Trump administration defunded the agency, and expresses hope for re-funding under the Biden administration.
UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees.
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