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APN Publications: September 2012 Archives
Alpher considers why the Israel Foreign Ministry campaign to portray the "Jewish refugee issue"
as "somehow akin to the narrative of the 1948 Palestinian refugees" is"yet another classic instance of misjudgment and
phony nationalism on the part of the Foreign Ministry under extremists
Avigdor Lieberman and Danny Ayalon, and why he predicted that if the Arab revolutionary virus strikes anywhere that we haven't seen it yet, his candidate would be Jordan.
Alpher offers a review of the outgoing year, 5772, on domestic issues, including the economy and the social justice movement, international affairs of the past year, including Netanyahu's failures, and a forecast for 5773.
Alpher discusses whether Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in trouble politically, how the shrinking in size and domination by right-wing tycoons and
bureaucrats of Israeli print media, television and radio is affecting freedom of information and opinion
about sensitive issues like Iran and the Palestinians, and if an Egyptian demand to amend the
military annex of the peace treaty with Israel to allow for full
Egyptian military deployment in Sinai or the violence and anarchy in the Golan threatening Israel's
demilitarization agreement with Syria could affect Israeli thinking on the territories-for-peace principle that
underlies past and, hopefully, future peace agreements.
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