OpEd by Arthur Stern, APN National Executive Committee Member and Southern California Regional Chair
Peace Now in the Press: October 2008 Archives
Hagit Ofran of Peace Now said the High Court of Justice had determined that the outpost was illegal more than a year
ago and had told the families that they needed to leave.
Continue reading Jerusalem Post: "Settlers rebuild evacuated outpost".
"Whoever expresses himself in such a manner belongs in jail," Olmert said during yesterday's weekly cabinet meeting.
"We've had enough of all this violence
Continue reading Ha'aretz: "Settlers: We hope IDF soldiers die, become like Gilad Shailt".
Israeli leadership "are leaving the impression that nothing can be done...they who view Peace Now's attempts to visit
Hebron as provocative."
Continue reading YNET: "Sternhell on settlers: Enough talk, do something".
Profile of Hagit Ofran appeared in the women's magazine
Continue reading Peace Now Settlement Watch Director in French Marie Claire Magazine!.
Israeli law enforcement authorities are connecting the dots. So are Israeli politicians, the media and most of the
Israeli public. It's time for American friends of Israel to also sober up to the straight line that leads from the
systemic lawlessness among Jewish West Bank settlers to political terrorism inside Israel.
Michael Sfard, a human rights lawyer for Peace Now...said the price tag campaign of the settler extreme has been
discussed for months on Internet forums and in weekly pamphlets circulated within the movement.
Continue reading New York Jewish Week: "New Tactics By Settlers Worrying Authorities".
Includes mention of attack against Prof. Sternhell, the Peace Now "bounty" leaflet, and death threats against Peace
Now's Yariv Oppenheimer
Continue reading Jerusalem Post: "Olive harvest has become more violent".
Articles and briefs on the graffiti death threats against Yariv Oppenheimer...
Continue reading Peace Now Secretary General Received Death Threats.
"...Peace Now...revealed that since the Annapolis peace talks last October, the number of construction tenders issued
in East Jerusalem has increased by a factor of 38 compared to the previous year.
Continue reading Daily Star: "A comeback by the one-state solution?" By Sari Nusseibeh.
PM Olmert: "An evil wind of malice, of hatred, of extremism, of lawlessness is blowing through certain sectors of the
Israeli public and threatens Israeli democracy," he told his cabinet.
Continue reading Washington Post: "W. Bank Settlers' Rage Grows".
In the past few weeks, the Settlers Council has launched an advertising campaign under the heading "Judea and
Samaria-every Jew's story,"
"Leaflets left at the scene (Professor Sternhell bombing) offered a NIS 1.1 million bounty for anyone killing a leader
of Peace Now."
Peace Now, an Israeli group that monitors settlement building, says that 493 new housing units have gone up east of the
planned barrier in the past year, in outposts and older settlements.
Continue reading Economist: "Settlers against a settlement".
Oscar-winning director Ari Sandel ("West Bank Story") racked up yet another prize when Americans for Peace Now
presented him the 2008 Cine-Peace Award.
Continue reading L.A. Jewish Journal: "Oscar-winner Sandel gets Cine-Peace Award".
"...the settlement population in the West Bank has doubled to 260,000 inhabitants since the construction of the last
official settlement 12 years ago, according to Peace Now,..."
Seattle Post Intelligencer: "As they leave office, national leaders let it slip out" by Helen Thomas
"Olmert's turnaround is remarkable, but in line with Peace Now, the Israeli pro-peace group."
"...Hagit Ofran of Peace Now said she did not believe the initiative ('Yehuda and Shomron: Every Jew's Story') would be
able to sway the public"
Continue reading Jerusalem Post: "Vandals hit Judea and Samaria PR campaign".
According to the latest data from the Peace Now movement, during Ehud Olmert's term of office, at least 4,056 new
housing units were built in the West Bank, and tenders were published for another 1,433 units.
Continue reading Ha'aretz: "Olmert's words got lost between Beit El and Ariel".
"...the Yesha Council (Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip) launched a new campaign by
the name of 'Yehuda and Shomron - Every Jew's story'"
According to the Israeli watchdog group Peace Now, some 2,600 new housing units are currently under construction
throughout the West Bank.
Continue reading Newsweek: "A Piece Of The Peace".
Extremist Israeli settlers damage peace prospects just as Palestinian terrorists do
Continue reading Columbus Dispatch: "Equally destructive".
Yariv Oppenheimer, the head of Peace Now: "Whoever doesn't enforce the law on the violent settlers in the territories,"
he said, "will find himself facing a Jewish terrorist organization operating in the heart of Israel."
Settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem doubled their construction of houses this year, according to the Israeli
group Peace Now.
The mind reels: The State of Israel is their enemy? A reward for dead Peace Now members? A halachic kingdom?
Continue reading Forward: "The Kingdom of Judea vs. the State of Israel" by Leonard Fein.
Peace Now secretary-general Yariv Oppenheimer said he was glad that Netanyahu was admitting publicly that he would
build in the settlements instead of moving to the center of the political map.
Continue reading Jerusalem Post: "Netanyahu vows to expand settlements if elected PM".
The attack against Sternhell came less than a month after right-wing Rabbi Yisrael Rozen attacked Peace Now in a weekly
pamphlet that is distributed to synagogues
Continue reading Jerusalem Post: "Pines: Stop compassion for Jewish terror".
JPost Blog: "The radicalization of the right-wing" by Yariv Oppenheimer, Peace Now Secretary General
From the moment I joined 'Peace Now', threats, hate mail and hostile telephone calls have become the norm.
Peace Now supporter Ze'ev Sternhell was "the target of the highest-profile attack inside Israel by far right-wing
Jewish extremists since Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995."
"...police found posters offering a 1 million shekel reward [close to $300,000] to anyone killing a member of Peace
Now, which opposes Jewish settlement in the land seized in the 1967 Six-Day War."
Continue reading Christian Science Monitor: "Why Israeli settlers are lashing out".
Nearly a thousand housing units are being built in Maale Adumim, according to Peace Now's Settlement Watch project.
In a shocking incident, Peace Now activist and renowned Professor Zeev Sternhell was wounded by a pipe bomb outside his
home in Israel last week.
Continue reading Firedoglake Blog: "Terrorists target Peace Now".
Global News Blog: "MIDEAST: Final Hours Find Newly Conciliatory Olmert";LA Times Blog Babylon Beyond "ISRAEL: Olmert's
intriguing swan song";
Continue reading APN in the Blogoshphere in pieces re: Olmert's Interview.
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