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March 2007 Archives

APN Legislative Round-Up - March 30, 2007

I. New bills and resolutions II. Deja Vu? New PATA Bill in the House; III. Final Update on Nelson-Ensign Letter; IV. New ME Initiative from Rep. Wolf

New Palestinians Sanctions Bill Introduced - 3/29/07

APN Provides a table comparing the new text with both HR 4681 (as passed by the House) and S. 2370, as passed by the House and Senate to become PL 109-234.

Q. Between Condoleezza Rice's visit and the Arab summit in Riyadh, where is the Israeli-Palestinian peace process heading? Q. Is Shimon Peres running for president or for prime minister of Israel?

APN welcomed the Arab League's reaffirmation of its land-for-peace plan and urged the United States and Israel to engage with the plan as a basis for negotiations.

Write your Senators to thank them / make you voice known about the important "Nelson-Ensign Letter...

APN Passover Haggadah Readings

On Passover, we acknowledge the struggle that Israel and her neighbors still wage for peace and security.

Preamble The State of Israel (hereinafter "Israel") and the Palestine Liberation Organization (hereinafter "PLO"), the representative of the Palestinian people (hereinafter the "Parties"): Reaffirming their determination to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict, and to live in peaceful coexistence, mutual dignity and security based on a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace and achieving historic reconciliation; Recognizing that peace ...

March 26, 2006 - Vol. 8, Issue 21

OCCUPATION ATROPHIES IDF; SUPPORT FOR SAUDI PEACE INITIATIVE; PALESTINIANS SUPPORT ARAB LEAGUE PLAN, JEWISH STATE; GAZA INVASION NOW?;

Q. The relevant parties worldwide all seem to have formulated different criteria for deciding whether and when to talk to the new PA unity government. Can you make sense out of this? Q. What was the commotion over the "naming" of last summer's war in Lebanon?

APN Legislative Round-Up - March 23, 2007

I. Update on Senate Letter to Rice; II. APN on the revised Senate letter; III. AIPAC on Senate letter; IV. Update on House letter(s) to Solana; V. Update on Palestinian Security Assistance VI. New bills and resolutions

Q. What are the prospects for the new Palestinian government to succeed? Q. How is the Likud party under Binyamin Netanyahu positioning itself...?

March 19, 2006 - Vol. 8, Issue 20

BOYCOTT THE PA; TALK TO ABU MAZEN; THIS LAND IS MY LAND; SECOND CHANCES...

APN welcomed changes made to a letter circulating in the Senate to be sent to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The revised letter is a step in the right direction,

APN Legislative Round-Up - March 15, 2007

I. Bills and Resolutions II. APN on the Nelson-Ensign Letter III. APN on Iran

A central "ask" for AIPAC lobbying is to sign this letter re: expanded sanctions for the Palestinian Authority

Letter relates to expanded sanctions against the Palestinian Authority...

Israel's Peace Now movement today released official data it received from the Israeli government, validating the findings of its November 2006 report that vast portions of Israeli settlements in the West Bank are built on land which the government recognizes as privately owned by Palestinians.

APN urges Senators to take a careful look at the letter in preparation of being lobbied on it as part of the AIPAC policy conference

Arab Peace Initiative - Resources

Transcripts, Documents, etc relating to the Saudi Peace Plan which was later passed by the Arab Summit in 2002

See the Saudi initiative from 1981 and a Time magazine article about it

A. Sharm el-Sheikh, March 1, 2003: See: Letter dated 3 March 2003 from the Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Councilhttp://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/c25aba03f1e079db85256cf40073bfe6/66233ae203a6f59385256ce6005694c4!OpenDocument "Pursuant to Article 54 of the Charter of the United Nations, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith the resolutions of the fifteenth session of the Council ...

This article made public the existence of a Saudi Peace Plan

Saudi Crown Prince speech before the Fourteenth Arab Summit

For sake of comparison only to final text

Text of Arab League Peace Initiative, Beirut

From the Summit of the Council of the League of Arab States

APN called on the Bush Administration to change course on Iran in favor of limited, constructive engagement, characterized by a combination of carrots and sticks.

Q. What can we learn from PM Ehud Olmert's Winograd Commission testimony? Q. Can you expand amending the refugee/right of return clause in the Saudi Initiative?

March 12, 2007- Vol. 8, Issue 19

ISRAELI PRAISE FOR ARAB PEACE PLAN; MAKING PEACE WITH HALF OF THE PALESTINIANS; REMEMBERING THE SASSON REPORT...

APN Legislative Round-Up - March 9, 2007

I. Bills, Dear Colleagues, and Letters II. AIPAC on the Hill: Doubling Down On the Palestinians... III. ...And on Iran

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APN commended King Abdullah II of Jordan for urging the Bush administration and Congress to take the lead in making Israeli-Palestinian peace a reality.

Transcript of the speech given by the Jordanian King on March 7, 2007

Peace Now's Special Purim Shpiel...

Following in the tradition of Purim satire, Peace Now held a mock Cabinet meeting...

Q. ...era of multilateralism in dealing with Middle East conflicts/crises? Q. ...where do key Labor figures stand with regard to peace process issues...?

March 5, 2006 - Vol. 8, Issue 18

NOT YOUR FATHER'S SAUDI INITIATIVE; NEW QUARTET TACT; ET TU, BAKER?; U.S. AID TO ISRAEL REVISITED; PERETZ ON THE ROPES...

APN Legislative Round-Up - March 2, 2007

I. Bills and Resolutions II. Bush's Double-Standard on Engagement with Syria

Write to Rice! Pressuring Israel not to even talk with Syria was unjustified all along. Continuing this pressure now is plain hypocrisy.