By: Hadar Susskind

When I served as a combat soldier in the Israeli military, I carried an American-made M-16. I drove American jeeps and fired American missiles.

As a dual American-Israeli citizen who has spent years in both countries, my commitment to Israel did not end with my army service. From my home in the U.S. the past 20 years, I’ve been in the trenches of the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement for nearly all of my life. It is from this vantage point of caring deeply for both Israel and the U.S., and in my capacity as President and CEO of Americans for Peace Now, that I am calling on the U.S. government to condition its annual 3.8 billion dollars of military aid to Israel. We are the first progressive Zionist organization to endorse conditioning aid, and we do not take this step lightly. But what has become abundantly clear, underscored by the horrifying images coming out of Gaza, East Jerusalem and inside Israel last month, is that continuing to give Israel military aid without conditions neither serves U.S. policy interests—nor, I would argue, does it serve Israel.

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.

Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes the swearing in of Israel's new government and wishes it success in addressing the challenges that the state of Israel faces.

APN bids farewell to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and wishes success to incoming Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

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.

Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) is excited to announce the hiring of two new staff members, Madeleine Cereghino our new Director of Government Relations, and Claire Davidson Miller our new Strategic Communications and Development Associate.

Fifty-four years ago this week, the unthinkable happened: Israel defeated Jordanian, Syrian, and Egyptian forces in the Six-Day War, tripling its geographic footprint in less than a week. For Jews, this was unimaginably good news: Jerusalem was won, the Western Wall was liberated, and the myriad of Biblical sites in the West Bank were open to Jewish visitors. As Jewish Israelis flocked to heritage sites long yearned-for, Palestinians continued to lose their own. The West Bank was now under Israeli military occupation, an occupation that has since come to feel indefinite.

It is easy to lose hope fighting to end an occupation that feels never-ending, but in the past days and weeks, as we have prepared to mark the anniversary of the Six-Day War, we have seen another seismic shift in the Israeli political sphere. After twelve consecutive (and fifteen total) years as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be on his way out of office.

Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes the announcement of a new governing coalition in Israel.

Americans for Peace Now (APN) congratulates Isaac Herzog, who was elected today to become Israel's 11th president, and urges him to use his position to advance the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

The American organization Musicians for the Greater Good held a virtual peace concert on May 30th to honor the work of Israel's Peace Now movement and its US sister organization, Americans for Peace Now.