Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
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Avner Gvaryahu is the executive director of Breaking the
Silence, an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the
Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life
in the Occupied Territories.
APN’s Debra Shushan and Ori Nir spoke with Avner on October 30th, 2019.
Vist Breaking the Silence’s website and follow Avner on Twitter at @AGvaryahu.
Dr. Marwan Muasher, currently the Amman-based Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, was Jordan's foreign minister, deputy prime minister, information minister, Jordan's
ambassador to the United States and its first ambassador to Israel. He was deeply involved in the peace process,
and helped compose the Arab Peace Initiative.
We met him in Amman as part of Americans for Peace Now's study tour to the region.
This episode is an edited version of our conversation with him. Due to technical difficulties, questions asked by members of our group could not be recorded. Some of Dr. Muasher's comments are in reply to questions that are not in this recording, which sometimes makes his remarks a bit difficult to follow.
Dr. Muasher, recorded on November 5th 2019, refers to meetings that our group was to have the next day (in his words "tomorrow") with Jordanian government officials.
Today, thirteen organizations – the coalition members of The Progressive Israel Network (PIN), the Israel Policy Forum, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association – sent a letter to the heads of Israel’s political parties calling on them to refuse any kind of unilateral annexation of the West Bank or parts of it.
Letter to Israeli Political Leadership Opposing Annexation
As heads of American Jewish organizations who care deeply about the State of Israel and are committed to safeguarding its future as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people, we implore you to consider the costs of any unilateral annexations in the West Bank, and ask that you refuse to support annexation as a policy guideline for any government that your party may join.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday November 5, 2019
Quote of the day:
"How tense is the business here right now? It's hanging by the thread. But neither side wants to go down
that slope, and (both) make efforts so it doesn't happen. We want to end incidents while maintaining the upper
hand. They, on the other hand, try to avoid incidents from happening and we try not to give them
reasons."
—Lt. Col. Yoav Schneider commander of Battalion 82 explains why Israel bombs Hamas military
lookout posts when they are empty and why soldiers don't shoot more Palestinians on the border fence.*
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The Jerusalem Post: "Peace Now: Israel Advanced Plans for 2,342 Settler Homes in October" (November 1, 2019)Peace Now: "The next government must put a freeze on the development of settlements and to strive for immediate resumption of negotiations with the Palestinians without preconditions and to end the bloody conflict based on the principle of two states for two peoples." Read >> |
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Forward: "Reform Movement Spurns Iconic Israeli Charity To Protest West Bank Land Buys" (October 31, 2019)Peace Now, the Israeli anti-occupation group, issued a statement last month calling KKL “a settler fund.” Americans for Peace Now, its U.S. sister organization, applauded the Reform movement’s criticisms of KKL Read >> |
