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Americans for Peace Now: November 20, 2019
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"...this decision undermines the safety of both Israelis and Palestinians and undercuts any prospect for a two-state solution. This flagrant disregard for the U.S. role as an honest broker in this conflict further undercuts both U.S. leadership and credibility, and it must be reversed."
Statement from Representatives David Price, Jan Schakowsky, John Yarmuth, Gerry Connolly, Barbara Lee, Peter Welch, Alan Lowenthal, Lloyd Doggett, and Earl Blumenauer, on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's announcement that the Trump administration would no longer consider Israeli settlements built in disputed territory to be against international law.
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Issue Briefs
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.
November 18, 2019 - The amazing interplay between Gazan politics and Israeli politics [ [link removed] ]
Q. Israel assassinated a Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza last week, then fought a brief three-day battle with PIJ in Gaza. Meanwhile, the clock kept ticking on the deadline for forming a new coalition in Israel. What's the connection?
A. More than one connection, actually...
Q. How does the Gaza outcome, whereby Hamas stood aside during the fighting, reflect on Israeli politics.
A. It reflects on Palestinian politics, too...
Q. Gantz's prospects? Not much time left.
A. Gantz has until this Wednesday at midnight to form a coalition. At the time of writing on Monday, his chances of success appeared poor...
Q. Did last week's fighting produce military achievements?
A. Israel demonstrated a capacity for impressive pin-point "needle-in-a-haystack" attacks. Its defenses--Iron Dome and a cooperative public--ensured that no Israelis were killed. It enhanced its deterrent profile toward its rocket-firing enemies on all fronts...
Q. Your bottom line?
A. ...All told, this is almost certainly a tactical and temporary rather than a strategic achievement...
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APN Condemns New Trump Administration Policy Attempting to Legitimize Settlements
On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the Trump administration's latest assault on prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace by renouncing a 1978 letter by the State Department's legal advisor stating that "settlements are not per se illegal under international law." ...This latest announcement by the Trump administration will do further damage to prospects for peace, particularly if it is taken by right-wing Israeli politicians as yet another indication that President Trump will accept Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank.
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Independent: "Trump's decision to drop US opposition to Israeli settlements is an assault on the two-state solution"
by Brian Reeves, Peace Now Director of External Relations
If silence in the face of settlement expansion represents a nod of tacit approval regarding a troubling trend, then the new US stance marks nothing less than a thinly-veiled broadside on the two-state solution.
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APN Audio
PeaceCast Episode #99: Khalil Shikaki on Trends in Palestinian Public Opintion
Hear Palestinian pollster and social scientist Khalil Shikaki review trends in Palestinian public opinion in the past decade and offer some predictions of possible future scenarios in Palestinian society. This episode was recorded in his Ramallah, West Bank office during APN's recently completed 2019 study tour.
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APN's Study Tour in Jordan, Israel, and the West Bank/Palestine
SEE PICTURES [ [link removed] ] from the touring and private meetings with Jordanian, Israeli, and Palestinian officials from the recently concluded Study Tour.
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APN in Action
APN as part of the Progressive Israel Network Calls on Israel to Rescind Its Deportation Order Against HRW's Omar Shakir
As American Jewish organizations deeply concerned about the future of Israel's democracy, we are disturbed and saddened by the decision of the Israeli Supreme Court to uphold the Israeli government's order to deport Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine Director.
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News Nosh Editor Orly Halpern writes about the origins of APN's unique and free service, and why she sees it as "the best daily source of news information from the Hebrew media that is available to the public."
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EVENTS
TOMORROW, Thursday, November 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C.
American-born IDF soldiers break their silence on encountering the Occupation
Join us for an evening of conversation with brave young American veterans of the IDF breaking their silence - for the first time - about the moral costs of the occupation.
APN is one of the co-sponsors for this event sponsored by New Israel Fund, Breaking the Silence, and Temple Sinai in Washington, DC.
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