Today, a group of leading Israel cultural figures, among them winners of the prestigious Israel Prize, gathered in Tel Aviv to announce their welcome of an independent Palestinian state next to Israel, with its borders based on the 1967 borders.
The urgency of the Israeli-Palestinian situation today cannot be
overstated. Current peace efforts have lost all credibility.
Settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem continues,
undermining the viability of the two-state solution. Moderate
Palestinian leaders, unable to deliver progress to their people through
negotiations, are under increasing pressure to pursue alternative
strategies. Violence and tensions on the ground are rising. 
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APN offers the song "Make Those Waters Part" by Doug Mishkin for you to add to your Passover Seder. The song appears on his album Woody's Children, as well as on Celebrate Passover and on Sing Out For Justice (produced by the Union for Reform Judaism). Mishkin is a lawyer, singer-songwriter, and member of Temple Micah in Washington, D.C.
The Netanyahu government has marked the occasion of President Shimon Peres's visit to Washington with some very unwelcome "gifts" to the Obama Administration: on Sunday, the government of Israel let the Jerusalem Municipal Planning Committee approve a plan for massive settlement expansion in the southern part of East Jerusalem 