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Americans for Peace Now: September 18, 2019
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"Israel's election results offer a glimmer of hope that its slide away from liberal democracy can be stopped"
Gershom Gorenberg, Israeli author and journalist, in his Washington Post piece [ [link removed]
] following Israel's elections.
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Issue Briefs
Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher [ [link removed] ]
September 18, 2019 - Israel's Elections [ [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. Stalemate? Dead heat?
A. Based on near-final results of vote-counting, that is the picture...
Q. Let's start with the spectrum of options. A third round of Knesset elections?
A. Very unlikely...
Q. Can't Likud try to coopt a small center-left party like Labor-Gesher, which apparently has six mandates? That would push the right over the 61 mandate threshold for a majority coalition. Can't Blue-White abandon some of its principles and do a deal with the 17-or-so ultra-Orthodox mandates, or alternatively even with the 13-mandate strong Joint Arab List?
A. These questions hint at the kind of horse-trading gambits we can expect...
Q. Returning to the fallback position of a Likud-Blue-White-Liberman coalition, how is that effort likely to play out? On the face of it, this suggests a stable centrist coalition? What are the obstacles?
A. The biggest obstacle is liable to be Netanyahu himself...
Q. So ahead of us are weeks and months of horse-trading. You argue that Netanyahu was the most skilled campaigner. How did Gantz's campaign deal with him?
A. Blue-White ran a uniquely laid-back and almost passive and whispered campaign...
Q. So what was this election about?
A. On one important level, it was about Netanyahu, yes or no. On another...liberal "Israeli" Israel against illiberal ultra-nationalist, Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox "Jewish" Israel...
Q. Who are the key actors to keep an eye on in the weeks ahead?
A. Let's start with President Rivlin...
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Government Relations [ [link removed] ]
APN Legislative Round-Up: September 13, 2019 [ [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
* More on Recess Travel to Israel
* On the Record
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Israeli Elections
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The papers were printed after waiting till 2:00AM; that was when the updated poll results declared that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had lost... Nevertheless, neither party could cobble together a coalition government without Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party.
Today's edition of APN's News Nosh summarized the coverage of yesterday's Israeli elections, and as it does every day, APN provides this unique (and free) service for you to stay informed on the news from Israel.
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APN's Debra Shushan interview on Israel elections
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On the day of the election, APN director of policy and government relations Debra Sushan was interviewed on CGTN.
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APN joins other organizations to advocate against an unauthorized war with Iran
APN signed onto a letter from 30 pro-diplomacy organizations to leaders of the congressional Armed Service Committees that calls to prohibit funds for military action against Iran without explicit authorization from Congress.
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Settlement Watch
Israeli Cabinet Approves the 6th New Official Settlement Since Oslo
Mevo'ot Yericho, currently an illegal outpost in the Jordan Valley, was retroactively authorized through the settlement plan approvals process.
Peace Now: The government continues to show blatant disregard for reaching a two-state conflict-ending agreement with the Palestinians. Instead, it prefers to take new strides in formalizing the acquisition of occupied territory and to control the area's resources while permanently keeping the Palestinian population confined without full rights in isolated cantons.
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"The Answer is Peace" - Shaqued Morag, Peace Now Executive Director
APN's new brochure shares Peace Now Executive Director's piece originally printed in Ha'aretz.
When my grandparents were young, they did not ask themselves whether during their lifetime the Jews would have a state in the Land of Israel. They fought to make it happen. The question we need to ask ourselves today is how in our lifetime we will not lose the state that they worked so hard to establish... The answer is Peace.
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