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APN Weekly Update - APN on Trump Election, Alpher on Israeli Impact, Peace Now remembers Rabin, and More
As Israelis and Palestinians struggle to make sense of this week’s presidential election results, so are we, Americans who support Israeli-Palestinian peace, anxiously wondering about the fate of our mission under President-elect Donald Trump.
The American people have spoken. We at APN obviously acknowledge the results. We doubt, however, that by electing Trump, the people have spoken about their desired foreign policy priorities. Candidate Trump did not clearly indicate such priorities. His foreign policy agenda was sparse and ambiguous, often confused. What will President Trump’s foreign policy be? What will his Middle East Policy be?
--Tzvia Greenfield, peace activist, leftist, and Israel's first female ultra-Orthodox MK examines what motivates right-wing US and Israeli voters.*
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.
This week, Alpher discusses the Netanyahu government’s most immediate preoccupation regarding the outcome of the US presidential election; how it depends on who wins, Trump or Clinton; the possibility of Obama intending to launch a last-minute policy initiative; and the number of heavy controversies on the Netanyahu government’s near-term agenda: the High Court, the media, and religious pluralism .
--Yedioth commentator Yaron London writes that the bill to legalize outposts built on privately-owned Palestinian land a blatantly illegal and must be defied.**
Ten thousand people came yesterday to Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv to remember the former prime minister who was
assassinated as he worked for peace, moments after he sang "Shir LaShalom" (Song for peace), the lyrics of which
were found, blood-stained, in his pocket.
--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp chief, Isaac Herzog, said at the commemoration rally marking 21 years since the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.*
--Chief Justice Miriam Naor struck back at Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked's attempt to curb the power of the High Court.**
