Jerusalem Report (JPost's magazine) - November 11, 2014
APN's Lara Friedman and Daniel Seidemann: Underlying cause of current crisis is dysfunctional Israeli rule in East Jerusalem
http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/A-divided-city-381450?prmusr=%2feSJO4jmDZNuFM82ZvaN3A%2b73NYOy5wDFQABBMf1X%2b%2bb3bLz4Usb2YZdzQ6R4XBa

Times of Israel - November 12, 2014
Peace Now's Lior Amihai condemns new planned construction in East Jerusalem
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-approves-200-new-homes-in-jewish-e-jerusalem-area/

John Hopkin's Newsletter - November 13, 2014
APN's Ori Nir and ATFP's Ghaith Al-Omari speak at Johns Hopkins University
http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2014/11/13/j-street-panelists-discuss-contemporary-politics-90521/

This week, Alpher discusses the meeting last week between Secretary of State John Kerry, King Abdullah II and PM Netanyahu, and whether that meeting signals a new departure in Israeli-Palestinian and Israel-Arab relations regarding Jerusalem; the talk of new elections in Israel brought on by the government's lack of cohesiveness; how the current borders of the "united" Jerusalem come about and what the rationale was, and whether it is still valid; and why the Shin Bet, an internal security service, is still responsible for intelligence regarding Gaza, from which Israel withdrew in 2005.

APN's daily news review from Israel

Sunday November 16, 2014
 

Quote of the day:

"There is a place for criticism, but whoever is not committed to the principles of the corps - I will assist him in being released (from the corps)."
--Border Police Commander Amos Yaakov tells Border Policemen hints disapproval of the campaign against the Border policeman arrested on suspicion of murdering two Palestinian protesters.**

On November 14 2014, APN hosted Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council and al-Monitor.com, an expert on Iran, for a briefing call on the deal brewing between Teheran and the international community, as they approach the November 24 deadline for a comprehensive solution to Iran's nuclear program.

Most American Jewish tour groups are shown a historical-religious theme park version of a nominally 'united' Jerusalem - in which the Arabic-speaking, Palestinian east of the city and its grievances is simply invisible.

Imagine this is your city.

Imagine that one of its neighborhoods is Shuafat, a walled-off refugee camp with 80,000 people and no legal order or adequate city services, where zealots who recognize the rule of a Supreme Being not a Supreme Court judge, take actions that are daily heightening tensions in the city and new tenants take over the top floor of a home under the veil of darkness and proclaim that they are "Judaizing" the street of an overwhelmingly Arab neighborhood, throwing out the belongings of the family who is living there and camping on the top floor with their children, and their guns.

Welcome to Jerusalem, yes, Jerusalem.

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Please join us for a briefing call with Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council, an expert on Iran. Ms. Slavin will share her analysis of the current negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program, and help us beter understand the state of affairs as the negotiating parties approach the November 25 deadline.