Four people were shot dead and six badly injured when two young gunmen, Palestinian terrorists, opened fire at a Tel Aviv coffee shop. One of the suspects was shot dead and the other apprehended.
APN Weekly Update - Alpher: From Paris to Entebbe, 49 years, Nir's tough speech, and our "two-slate solution"
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APN's Lara Friedman: "49 years: The difficult
truths of this conflict"
APN's Ori Nir: "Erosion of Democracy: The Greatest
Threat to Israel's National Security"
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday June 08, 2016
Quote of the day:
"This flag will fly again. But never in sympathy with those who are destroying this land, shattering
the Jewish People, and mutilating Judaism itself."
--Haaretz columnist and editor, Bradley Burston, explains why he took down his Israeli flag before Jerusalem Day.**
--Haaretz columnist and editor, Bradley Burston, explains why he took down his Israeli flag before Jerusalem Day.**
On Sunday, June 5th, Americans for Peace Now joined the Progressive Coalition at this year's Celebrate Israel Parade. Although the weather was damp, spirits were not as we joined with T'ruah, Partners for Progressive Israel, and New Israel Fund to show the world that there is a strong and vibrant progressive community supporting Israel and thousands of Israelis working for a just and peaceful society.
Pictures below
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday June 07, 2016
Quote of the day #1:
Quote of the day #1:
“No one is going to fall off their feet by Netanyahu's peace comments."
--Zionist Camp MK Itzik Shmuli said after the Israeli Prime Minister expressed support for parts of the Arab Peace Initiative.*
Quote of the day #2:
“The time has come that the state, its institutions, government offices, and educational and academic bodies integrate Ramadan into the state calendar."
--Directors of the Abraham Fund Initiatives called on the Israeli government to recognize Ramadan as an official holiday in order to create an equal Israeli society.
--Zionist Camp MK Itzik Shmuli said after the Israeli Prime Minister expressed support for parts of the Arab Peace Initiative.*
Quote of the day #2:
“The time has come that the state, its institutions, government offices, and educational and academic bodies integrate Ramadan into the state calendar."
--Directors of the Abraham Fund Initiatives called on the Israeli government to recognize Ramadan as an official holiday in order to create an equal Israeli society.
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 what has happened since his earlier expression of skepticism regarding the willingness of the Arab world to sponsor an Israeli-Palestinian peace process that corresponds with the demands of the right-wing Netanyahu government; what would happen -in a best case scenario - if Netanyahu brought Labor into the coalition, he and Lieberman continued to preach “two states for two peoples” and the Egyptians and Saudis agreed to launch a peace process; a summary of the Six-Day War’s overall effect on Israel-Arab peace as we enter its 50 year anniversary; and in the 40 years to the Entebbe rescue, what does he think of the recent assertion in an interesting new book, that the raid “made peace less likely. . . .[and made] it harder for Israeli politicians to push through the compromises required for peace.”
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday February 22, 2016
Quote of the day:
“To the Wailing Wall and Al-Aqsa Mosque they travel in the same train, so why not smile on the way one
to the other?"
--Daniel Halevy, Director of the 'True Spirit' pre-military academy said about his gap year students' choice of activities for Jerusalem Day.*
--Daniel Halevy, Director of the 'True Spirit' pre-military academy said about his gap year students' choice of activities for Jerusalem Day.*
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday June 05, 2016
Quote of the day:
“The Netanyahu administration loves being the victim. My feeling is that the current Israeli government
cultivates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in all its forms and it grasps onto the BDS movement because
perpetuating the conflict and the boycott movement strengthens its hold on power.”
--Daniel Birnbaum, CEO of SodaStream International Ltd., said in an interview. SodaStream was a target of BDS for operating its factory in the West Bank. The company relocated to inside Israel.
--Daniel Birnbaum, CEO of SodaStream International Ltd., said in an interview. SodaStream was a target of BDS for operating its factory in the West Bank. The company relocated to inside Israel.
Earlier we offered this cartoon as a reminder that the two-state solution is anchored in a two-slate solution. Soon, Shavuot begins again. It has come to represent the importance of the Torah and the 10 commandments. This Shavuot, may the two slates help us find a way to two states.
Americans for Peace Now wishes you a Hag Sameah, happy Shavuot.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to APN on this holiday, to help us work even harder to advance the two-state solution – the only way to achieve long-lasting peace, security, stability and dignity for both Israelis and Palestinians.
Thank you from all of us at APN.
On May 26th, 2016, Ori Nir spoke at the embassy of Israel at an event organized by
the Washington DC area chapter of to a group of Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT), the historically Jewish-Zionist
fraternity. This was a panel discussion that focused on threats to Israel’s national security. Other panel
participants were Reuven Azar, the Deputy Chief of Mission at Israel’s embassy in Washington, and Aaron David
Miller of the Wilson Center, a former advisor to Republican and Democratic Secretaries of State on
Arab-Israeli negotiations. Following are his opening remarks.
For years, Israel’s national security has been defined by the combination of its military strength and its international standing – diplomatically, economically etc.
Recently, it is becoming clear that Israel’s National security – like that of any other country and maybe more than most countries -- is not only defined by tanks and fighter jets. And not only by international alliances and secure borders, but also by what goes on within its borders.
Increasingly, I think, it is becoming clear that what goes on within the borders of the territory that falls under Israeli rule – Israel proper as well as the West Bank, and to an extent the Gaza Strip – is more of a risk to Israel’s national security than are any external threats.
It is this notion that prompted Israel’s current IDF Chief of Staff, the Deputy Chief of Staff, its outgoing Minister of Defense, and a whole slew of former generals, former chiefs of Shin Bet and Mossad, as well as politicians – including hawks like Benny Begin and Moshe Arens -- pundits, professors, and people in the press to raise red flags and warn against alarming threats to democracy and trends of budding fascism – no less – in Israeli society.
People – not only on the “left” -- are alarmed at a situation in which national leaders – including the prime minister of Israel – are pandering to the sentiments of the street, acquiescing to nationalistic extremism and national-religious fanaticism. Well, not only pandering, but actually fanning the flames of what once was a small noisy minority on the right margin of Israeli society, and today is a powerful force in Netanyahu’s ruling coalition.