Americans for Peace Now: Peace Now in the Press: October 2009 Archives

Huffington Post: "What Is Going on Today in the Settlements?" by Hagit Ofran

By APN on October 28, 2009 10:59 PM

The talk and the press reports over the last few months about settlement construction and a settlement freeze have left many confused.

If you listen to the Americans, well, you don't learn much, since they aren't leaking anything about their talks with Netanyahu, Barak, Molcho, and Herzog. So all we know for sure is that it is still the US policy to oppose all settlement activity and that the US expect Israel to stop the settlements. So far so good.

Continue reading Huffington Post: "What Is Going on Today in the Settlements?" by Hagit Ofran.

Slate: "The New Israel Lobby Jim Jones tells J Street that achieving peace is a top priority. But how?"

By APN on October 27, 2009 10:53 PM

Another strategy would be to pitch peace in Israel not as a foreign policy issue but as a U.S. national-security issue. President Obama should approach peace as President Bush would approach a war. Or, as Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace Now puts it, as a "peace of necessity."

By Christopher Beam

Continue reading Slate: "The New Israel Lobby Jim Jones tells J Street that achieving peace is a top priority. But how?".

Ha'aretz: "Despite promises to Obama, construction continues in dozens of W. Bank settlements"

By APN on October 16, 2009 12:10 AM

"The Peace Now movement last week reported that ground preparing work for the construction of 800 housing units was being carried out in 34 settlements."

By Akiva Eldar and Chaim Levinson

Human rights activists monitoring the West Bank report that despite commitments Israel made to President Barack Obama's administration last month, widespread building activity commenced three weeks ago in at least 12 settlements.

Continue reading Ha'aretz: "Despite promises to Obama, construction continues in dozens of W. Bank settlements".

Ynet: "Carpenter in illegal outpost in Susiya"

By APN on October 15, 2009 12:14 AM

Peace Now Secretary-General Yariv Oppenheimer said, "The outpost industry will stop at nothing in order to continue thriving."

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Guard at ancient West Bank synagogue site builds illegal shed from which he carries out carpentry work defense officials believe is used for construction of caravans, outposts by settlers. Civil Administration says execution of demolition order pending authorization of political echelon

By Efrat Weiss

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Ha'aretz: "Flirting with the apocalypse"

By Lara Friedman on October 9, 2009 1:42 PM

Co Authors Daniel Seidemann is a Jerusalem attorney and founder of Ir Amim, an Israeli nongovernmental agency, and Lara Friedman is director of policy and government relations for Americans for Peace Now.

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Jerusalem has once again emerged in recent days as the focal point of dangerous tensions that threaten to erupt into violence or even a third intifada. Much of the media analysis has overlooked the fact that this situation did not arise out of a vacuum, but is the latest manifestation of tensions that have been steadily growing for months.

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JTA: "Mideast peace push cited in Obama Nobel"

By APN on October 9, 2009 12:52 PM

The first pro-Israel group to praise Obama was Americans for Peace Now.

"President Obama deserves recognition and praise for making Middle East peace a top U.S. foreign policy priority from his first moments in the Oval Office," said Ori Nir, its spokesman

By Ron Kampeas · October 9, 2009

(JTA) -- The chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee cited President Obama's outreach to the Muslim world and his push for Israeli-Arab peace in explaining the shock decision.

Continue reading JTA: "Mideast peace push cited in Obama Nobel".

Jerusalem Post: "Peace Now: Accelerated construction has begun on 800 settlement homes in 3 months"

By APN on October 6, 2009 2:05 PM

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by Tovah Lazaroff , THE JERUSALEM POST

Peace Now charged Monday that settlers had accelerated the pace of construction and started work on more than 800 new homes in the last three months to thwart US demands that they stop building.

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Jerusalem Post: "State agrees to court order temporarily halting illegal construction in Kiryat Netafim settlement"

By APN on October 6, 2009 1:58 PM

Dan Izenberg , THE JERUSALEM POST

A government decision to oppose Peace Now's request for an interim injunction against the illegal construction of 15 houses in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Netafim, about 30 km. east of Tel Aviv, proved mistaken when building continued despite stop-work orders issued by the civil administration.

Continue reading Jerusalem Post: "State agrees to court order temporarily halting illegal construction in Kiryat Netafim settlement".

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News: "Israel builds 800 housing units in West Bank settlements"

By APN on October 6, 2009 1:49 PM

by Mohammed Mar'I, Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Oct. 6--RAMALLAH -- The anti-settlement Israeli watchdog Peace Now on Monday said 800 housing units have been built in West Bank settlements in the last three months. The movement said in a press statement, after its activists toured a construction site in the West Bank settlement Nokdim not far from Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's home,...

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Peace Now in the Press: October 2009 Archives