Peace Now Youth Dialogue Coordinators discuss their recent U.S. tour (also published by Common Ground News Service)
Peace Now in the Press: May 2008 Archives
Americans for Peace Now urged the U.S. Jewish foreign policy umbrella to back Israel's negotiations with Syria.
Continue reading JTA Breaking News: "Peace Now: Back Syria talks".
In response, Peace Now Secretary General Yariv Oppenheimer said, "Despite the attempts of settlers to determine the
reality around them, and to exhaust the legal system, even the appeals committee is forced to order an evacuation, due
to their inability to prove ownership of the property."
In the 2000 to 2007 period, 2,900 demolition orders were issued against Israeli settlers in the West Bank, but just
seven percent were implemented, according to Peace Now.
Continue reading AFP: "Israeli demolition threatens 3,000 Palestinian homes".
"We won," said attorney Michael Sfard, who represents both Peace Now and the former Palestinian shop owners, who rented
the space from the Custodian of Abandoned Property until 2000.
"It is fair to say that his foreign policy is much more progressive than you would have expected," said Tzaly Reshef, a
founder of Peace Now and chairman of one of the country's large publishing houses.
Continue reading NY Times News Analysis: "Olmert Peace Effort Elicits Cynicism and Hope".
"...according to Hagit Ofran, settlement expert for the Israeli advocacy group Peace Now, ...the development would
'isolate East Jerusalem and cut the northern West Bank from the southern West Bank'."
Continue reading Washington Post: "Mutual Dismay Over Jewish Settlements".
Americans for Peace Now, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom and the recently established J Street lobby group strongly back the
letter.
Continue reading JTA Breaking News: "End Gaza violence, letter urges Bush".
"While conservative, hawkish groups presume to speak for American Jews, Americans for Peace Now actually represents the
positions held by the majority of our community," said Ori Nir, a spokesman.
Continue reading The National (UAE): "American Jewish groups break with hawks".
The Peace Now movement said in a statement, "The settlers aren't wasting any time and continue to change reality. Every
day which goes by distances Israel and the Palestinians from the possibility of implementing the two-state vision and
makes reality impossible.
Continue reading Ynet: "New outpost in South Mount Hebron".
"...construction in the blocs is clearly barred under Phase I of the road map, which states: '[The government of
Israel] freezes all settlement activity (including natural growth of settlements).'"
The administration has been saying all the right things, but seems to have been avoiding backing up the rhetoric with
action," said Ori Nir, spokesman for Americans for Peace Now.
Americans for Peace Now, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom and the recently established J Street lobby group, strongly back the
letter.
A report issued by the Peace Now movement last month asserts that since the Annapolis peace conference, there have been
tenders issued for the construction of 750 housing units in east Jerusalem and an unprecedented wave of construction is
evident in Jewish neighborhoods on the eastern side of the city.
Continue reading Ynet: "Less-than-diplomatic welcome for Bush".
Article on U.S. visit of Peace Now's Youth Dialogue Co-Coordinators, Noa Epstein and Abed Erekat
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