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This week, Alpher discusses whether Netanyahu’s new right-wing governing coalition-of-61 survive, or if it is possible that it will expand to include the center-left; why Labor leader Isaac Herzog angrily condemned the new coalition as a “circus;” how the US and the Palestinians are dealing with the fact that this new government is almost certainly not a candidate for a peace process; were US efforts to smooth ruffled Middle East feathers regarding Iran last week (when President Obama hosted Arab leaders from the Persian Gulf at a Camp David summit and he reassured them about American intentions toward Iran and offered more security coordination) in any way significant; and whether Palestinian economic progress promotes peace.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday May 18, 2015
Quote of the day:
“It doesn’t seem like she’ll intervene in content. This is a democratic state. I don’t see this
happening, and don’t believe they’ll intervene in the content of art, because there’s no such thing.”
-- Yaakov Mendel, chairman of the Israeli Union of Performing Artists, said he had trouble believing the
Culture and Sports Ministry would actually implement the censorship policy its new minister, MIri Regev,
suggested.**
Los Angeles Jewish Journal - May 11, 2015
APN's Debra DeLee op-ed: When the Knesset tries to muzzle free speech
http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/when_the_knesset_tries_to_muzzle_free_speech
The Hill - April 27, 2015
APN's Lara Friedman op -ed : 'Pro-Israel' is not 'pro-settlements'
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/240037-dear-congress-pro-israel-is-not-pro-settlements
Haaretz - April 19, 2015
APN's Lara Friedman: Supreme Court decision is a defeat for Israel and a victory for settlers and BDS
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.652586
The Daily Star (AFP story) - May 14, 2015
Peace Now: Israeli government issues tenders for 85 new homes in West Bank settlement
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/May-14/297968-israel-invites-bids-for-85-wbank-settler-homes-ngo.ashx
Politico - May 11, 2015
APN: AIPAC's legitimizing settlements in the guise of defending Israel is "disingenuous and dishonest"
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/trade-bill-israel-aipac-117815.html
The Jewish Week - May 10, 2015
APN comments on House letter regarding Iran diplomacy
http://www.thejewishweek.com/blogs/political-insider/obama-gets-backing-iran-talks
i-24 News - May 8, 2015
Peace Now: More construction planned in East Jerusalem settlemen
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/70306-150507-israel-approves-900-homes-in-contested-east-jerusalem-area
Israel Hayom (Reuters report) - May 8, 2015
Peace Now: Israel planning more construction in East Jerusalem settlement
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=25325
Al-Monitor - May 7, 2015
APN welcomes House letter supporting Iran diplomacy
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/05/senate-iran-review-vote-approval-partisan.html#
Reuters - May 7, 2015
Peace Now: Israel planning new construction in East Jerusalem settlement
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/07/us-israel-palestinians-un-idUSKBN0NS22Q20150507
The Independent (UK) - May 7, 2015
Peace Now: Israel advances new plan for construction in East Jerusalem settlement
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinian-statehood-fears-israels-new-coalition-government-will-bury-the-possibility-of-a-twostate-solution-10233858.html
UK Daily Mail (AFP story) - May 7, 2015
Peace Now: Government approves new East Jerusalem settlement construction
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3071923/Hardline-Israel-government-emerges-angering-Palestinians.html
Times of Israel - May 7, 2015
Peace Now: New East Jerusalem settlement construction approved
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-okays-900-east-jerusalem-homes-peace-group-says/
Arutz 7 - May 7, 2015
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer expresses concern over role of extreme right in government
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/325621#.VVUGsvlVikp
Lobelog.com - April 30, 2015
APN's Lara Friedman refutes Elliott Abrams' case re: Settlement blocs
http://www.lobelog.com/elliott-abrams-shell-game-on-settlements/
Huffington Post - April 23, 2015
APN criticizes Congress vote against European boycott of West Bank settlements
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/congress-israel-settlements_n_7129064.html
Algemeiner - April 24, 2015
Peace Now among Israeli NGO recipients of European government funds
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/04/24/new-report-documents-extensive-foreign-funding-behind-left-wing-israeli-ngos/
JTA - April 24, 2015
APN decries bill amendment discouraging boycott of WB settlements
http://www.jta.org/2015/04/24/news-opinion/politics/auto-draft-86>
Washington Post - April 20, 2015
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer, Israel's biggest critic of settlements, is guarding one on reserve duty
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/20/why-one-of-israels-biggest-settlement-critics-is-now-guarding-one/
Ynet - April 19, 2015
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer on reserve duty securing WB outpost
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4648489,00.html
Arutz 7 - April 19, 2015
Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer gets to know the settlers up close while guarding them at WB outpost
APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday May 15, 2015
Quote of the day:
"After the appointments of Miri Regev as Minister of Culture and Danny Danon as Minister of Science and
Space we're only lacking Benny Gopstein of [anti-Arab] LEHAVA to be appointed Minister for Regional Peace
Issues."
--Singer Aviv Geffen tweets his shock at Netanyahu’s choices for ministers.**
--Singer Aviv Geffen tweets his shock at Netanyahu’s choices for ministers.**
On May 14, 2015, just as Benjamin Netanyahu's new government was being sworn-in in the Knesset, Israeli political expert and Peace Now founder Galia Golan was APN's guest on a briefing call analyzing the domestic and foreign policy challenges facing the new government.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday May 14, 2015
Quote of the day:
“It was after this hit-and-run attack, the app states, that Arab villagers often tried to block Jewish
traffic on the main road. Citing testimony from some of these villagers, iNakba also provides details
pertaining to the reprisal operation that followed the convoy ambush – information not widely available via
official Israeli sources. “
--Haaretz’s Judy Maltz shares stories revealed in a new app that shows two sides of Israel’s independence war story.**
--Haaretz’s Judy Maltz shares stories revealed in a new app that shows two sides of Israel’s independence war story.**
APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday May 13, 2015
Quote of the day:
"The bodies were checked and they were unarmed. They were still listed as terrorists: they were shot
at, so of course they must have been terrorists."
--IDF soldier explains how killed civilians are labeled 'terrorists' in a testimony about how two Palestinian women were killed in Gaza after being spotted talking on their cell phones in an orchard, nearly a kilometer away from an IDF force.** Such testimonies were read in Knesset yesterday.**
--IDF soldier explains how killed civilians are labeled 'terrorists' in a testimony about how two Palestinian women were killed in Gaza after being spotted talking on their cell phones in an orchard, nearly a kilometer away from an IDF force.** Such testimonies were read in Knesset yesterday.**
Israel’s new government - which, at least in its initial composition, is one of the most hardline in Israel’s history - will be sworn in within days.
This government brings together Israel's ultra-nationalist and ultra-Orthodox parties along with a new centrist party. Past positions of this government's members suggest future policies that are the antithesis of what we stand for. This government seems bound to act to further hinder the viability of a two-state solution, to further exacerbate Israel's isolation internationally, to intensify West Bank settlement construction, promote undemocratic legislation and to act to stifle dissent. The Palestinian question is not even mentioned in the government’s guidelines! The cabinet’s super-important Justice portfolio has been given to The Jewish Home’s Ayelet Shaked, who for years has been pushing legislation to dry up the funding sources of Israel’s pro-democracy, pro-peace nonprofit organizations such as Peace Now.
The coalition agreement between the Likud and the Jewish Home party (Bayit Yehudi) reveals the
plans of the new government and indicates its intentions, including:
1. Granting the settlers control over the construction of settlements and
over Israel's authority in the West Bank, while allocating more funds to the settlements.
2. Passing legislation and reforms that change the democratic rules of
the game.
3. Allocating public funds to bolster the political power of the
Israeli Right.
This agreement, which includes a Jewish Home stronghold on a variety of
positions directly related to settlement development, constitutes a clear danger to the possibility of
arriving at a two state solution and illustrates the true intention of the current government - massive
settlement expansion and the silencing of opposition to the occupation.