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Peace Now in the Press: April 2008 Archives

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's relaxing vacation in the Golan is just bad timing. It serves to fuel the conflict that exists within Israeli society which grapples between staying in the Golan Heights and the need for a peace agreement with Syria.
Research by the Israeli group Peace Now found that 94% of Palestinian permit applications for Area C building were refused between 2000 and September 2007.
Peace Now: Government destroying chances for peace.

Israel Hayom: "Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on May 15"

...the main event marking 30 years since the founding of Peace Now was held yesterday at Rabin Square, under the name "Peace Now-Leading to Peace for 30 Years."

Jerusalem Post: "Sheetrit: Negotiate with Arab League"

Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit (Kadima) told hundreds of Peace Now members gathered in Tel Aviv on Tuesday night to mark the group's 30th anniversary.
Israel's largest peace group marked what it called a bittersweet milestone Tuesday, 30 years since its foundation.
Read the articles from Yedioth Achronoth, YNET, AFP, Ha'aretz, and Asia News...
Sources involved in settlement affairs said Monday that even though Peace Now has argued that Ofra is built mostly on private land, Ramon's official statement has both political and legal implications.
While the negotiating teams are discussing the ways and principles for partitioning the Land of Israel, the reality on the ground makes it increasingly difficult to establish a sovereign Palestinian state.
The report published by Ir Amim bolsters earlier data issued by the Peace Now organization last week.

Daily Star: "Rice misses the obvious in peace-making"

The Israeli Peace Now movement monitors settlement activity more diligently than the US government does, as it does Israeli and Palestinian compliance with the 2003 "road map" requirements.

Gulf News: "Arab world deceived by empty promises"

Debra DeLee, president of Americans for Peace Now declared that "These large scale construction projects underscore the disturbing findings of Peace Now's new report that the so-called 'settlement freeze' is a farce."
The state's response came as part of a hearing on a petition to the High Court filed by Peace Now...
The League of Arab States has re-adopted its six-year-old peace initiative, offering comprehensive peace and normal relations with Israel by all its members in return for an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders, and a resolution of all outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinians.
According to a report published Monday by the Israeli Peace Now organization, Israel wants to build another 3,600 apartments in East Jerusalem.

Peace Now presses Olmert, Barak on settlement freeze

"Had Peace Now not published reports from time to time, it is doubtful anyone would have been aware of the continuing construction in the settlements..."

Jerusalem Post: "J'lem okays 600 homes over Green Line"

"...Peace Now issued a report which claimed that the number of new construction tenders in east Jerusalem had risen sharply since the Annapolis conference in November which formerly relaunched the peace process."

Ha'aretz Editorial: "Fooling ourselves"

"Had Peace Now not published reports from time to time, it is doubtful anyone would have been aware of the continuing construction in the settlements."
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