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Americans for Peace Now: January 15, 2020
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"We run a risk each time we come here. Settlers unleash dogs on us on our way to school. I try to run fast to escape them."
Abeer, an 11 year-old from Yanoun near Nablus in the West Bank, from the article in Al-Monitor Small West Bank school holds firm despite settler attacks [ [link removed] ].
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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.
January 13, 2020, - As the Post-Soleimani Smoke Clears... [ [link removed] ]
Q. Where does Israel stand with regard to the controversies that have arisen over the past ten days: the legitimacy of the Soleimani assassination, the Iranian low-key response of firing missiles at US bases in Iraq, the downing of the Ukrainian plane, Iraq's demand that the US remove its troops, and Iran's new steps toward abandoning the JCPOA and upgrading its nuclear enrichment program?
A. Iraq's demand to remove US troops from its territory is very important from Israel's standpoint. The other issues are secondary...
Q. And Baghdad and Washington? From Israel's standpoint, why is the future of US force deployment in Iraq now a central issue?
A. From Israel's perspective, Iraq's Shiite-majority government tolerated Soleimani and the numerous pro-Iranian Shiite militias he helped organize and arm...
Q. Finally, is Iran's final abandonment of the 2015 nuclear deal, the JCPOA, "secondary" for Israel?
A. It is in the sense that this is an outcome ostensibly desired by both President Trump, who pulled the plug on the JCPOA in 2018, and PM Netanyahu...
Q. Apropos Netanyahu, what's new on the Israeli electoral scene?
A. ...two key developments were registered on Sunday, January 12. Both work against Netanyahu's interests...
Q. Will there be anything truly unique about the next Knesset?
A. ...the next Knesset will have fewer factions, or parties, than any previous Knesset.
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Yossi Alpher responds to critique of "Israel and U.S. Jews must break their shared silence"
"It's a complex, nuanced situation that you simplify in ultra-nationalist terms at your own risk, and mine..." So writes expert Yossi Alpher in the Washington Jeweish Week, responding to a letter to the editor.
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Government Relations [ [link removed] ]
APN Legislative Round-Up: January 10, 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, & Letters
* Hearings
* On the Record
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Action Alert
REGISTER NOW - Voting begins in less than one week
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Election year 2020 begins on January 21, when the voting opens for the World Zionist Congress. Help determine the future of the Jewish state and the Jewish people and vote for the new HATIKVAH: Progressive Israel Slate, which APN and 10 other organizations have formed.
Voting for HATIKVAH means voting for:
* A two-state solution and ending the occupation
* Social justice and protection of democratic rights for all Israeli citizens
* Religious and cultural pluralism
* Gender equity
* Full legal and social equality for the LGBTQ community
* Dignity for refugees, asylum seekers and foreign workers
* Environmental sustainability and regional cooperation
Go HERE [ [link removed] ] for more information on HATIKVAH, how to register to vote, and how you can help promote the slate.
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APN Audio
PeaceCast Episode #103: Omar Shakir on Human Rights Watch's New Report
This episode features a conversation with Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch recently deported from Israel. Shakir talked about the deportation and Human Rights Watch's new report, Born Without Civil Rights.
LISTEN > [ [link removed] ]
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NEW ENTRY - The Friedman File: APN Watch on US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman
On January 8, Friedman gave a speech in Jerusalem to a right-wing Israeli organization making the case for Israel's right to the West Bank (always referring to it as Judea and Samaria), and Jews' right to live there, while intentionally ignoring Palestinian historical and legal claims to the West Bank.
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APN Events
Washington, DC - Friday, January 24, 9 am
Tagheer (Change) - Nonviolent Resistance and Palestinian Self-Development: A Conversation with Ali Abu Awwad
At this APN co-sponsored event, Pro-peace Palestinian activist Ali Abu Awwad will discuss his work in the occupied Palestinian territory to mobilize a movement of nonviolent resistance to the occupation.
Go HERE [ [link removed] ] for more information and to RSVP.
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Washington, DC - Monday, January 27, 10 am
Demolishing Democracy: How Annexationism Is Bulldozing Israeli Institutions
Israel's democratic institutions are under ever-growing threat, including attacks and delegitimization from Israeli political leaders, with a final push to formal annexation looming.
Come hear Yehuda Shaul, Co-Founder of Breaking the Silence, in conversation with Debra Shushan, Director of Government Relations, J Street. APN is a co-sponsor of this Foundation for Middle East program.
Go HERE [ [link removed] ] for more information and to RSVP.
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