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APN Leadership Meets with Fayyad, Livni

Livni - Fayyad - Bresler - DeLee b 3-10 320x265.jpgA leadership delegation of Americans for Peace Now, on a fact-finding trip to Israel and the West Bank, met today in Ramallah with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and in Jerusalem with Israel's Opposition Chair MK Tzipi Livni.

(Pictures on left: Livni with APN's Debra DeLee & Martin Bresler; right: Fayyad with Bresler)


APN's leaders urged Prime Minister Fayyad to stay focused on the two-state solution, the best hope for Israel and the for the Palestinians  to live in peace, security, democracy and independence. 

APN's delegation urged Fayyad to make sure that the Palestinian authority stays committed to the diplomatic process, despite the challenges. "Peace is too important for any of us to despair," APN's President and CEO Debra DeLee told Fayyad.

The delegation's members told Fayyad that Prime Minister Netanyahu's rhetoric of peace must be backed up by action, and such action necessitates Palestinian commitment to the political process brokered by the US administration. "The Israeli public needs to know whether Netanyahu means what he says," said DeLee.

Members of APN's delegation met with Fayyad at the Palestinian government's compound in Ramallah.
 
APN's leaders raised concerns about statements made recently by some members of the Palestinian government, which were not consistent with the parameters of achieving a two-state solution.

In meetings that APN leaders held with Palestinian Authority officials on Wednesday, APN's representatives raised deep concerns over the PA's intention to name a major square in Ramallah after Dalal al-Mughrabi, the Palestinian female terrorist who took part in a murderous attack on a bus in Israel in 1978.   On Thursday, the PA announced that it will indefinitely suspend the naming of the square. APN hopes that the PA will not go ahead with naming the square after al-Mugrabi.

Members of APN's delegation also met today with Israel's Opposition Chair Tzipi Livni of Kadima and with other Israeli Knesset members. MK Livni said that the main challenge facing Israeli leaders today is to convince the Israeli public that "a safe, Jewish, democratic state in the Land of Israel can only be established on a part of the land of Israel."