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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher - September 24, 2012

By APN on September 24, 2012 12:52 PM
Alpher186x140.jpgAlpher 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.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher - September 19, 2012

By APN on September 19, 2012 11:28 AM
Alpher_Letter186x140.jpgAlpher 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.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher - September 10, 2012

By APN on September 10, 2012 1:28 PM
Alpher186x140.jpgAlpher 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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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher - September 4, 2012

By APN on September 4, 2012 12:36 PM
Yossi Alpher 186x140.jpgAlpher responds to questions on:

  • Ramifications of the Netanyahu government obeying High Court orders and dismantling the "unauthorized" settlement of Migron
  • Israeli court decision to clear the Israel Defense Forces of responsibility for the death in 2003 of Rachel Corrie
  • Egypt's new Muslim Brotherhood leaders and some of Gaza's Hamas leaders encouraging the Gaza Strip to function as a separate Palestinian state; impact on two state peace activists
  • Muslim Brotherhood's likely behavior towards Israel
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