Americans for Peace Now: Peace Now in the Press: April 2010 Archives

Yariv Oppenheimer in Ma'ariv: Israel has a Strong Palestinian Partner

By APN on April 28, 2010 3:15 PM

"Israel's Palestinian Opportunity" by Peace Now Secretary General Yariv Oppenheimer

Anyone who continues to question whether Israel has a responsible and strong Palestinian partner who has the capacity to sign a peace agreement with us received a clear answer on Sunday on Channel Two News: there is a government in Ramallah, there is a leader in the mukataa, and there is a palpable possibility of ending the peace process with a final status arrangement.

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LA Jewish Journal (jewishjournal.com): "Lag B'omer's Price Tag" by Luis Lainer, Former APN National Chair

By APN on April 26, 2010 8:37 AM

April 23, 2010

Lag B'omer is coming - the 33rd day between Pesach and Shavuot, a day traditionally for throwing off mourning and instead celebrating with music, weddings and bonfires. Lag B'omer is a minor holiday that not many American Jews are aware of. Paradoxically, Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron have it circled on their calendars.

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Washington Jewish Week: "Yes, there are partners for peace" by Ori Nir, APN Spokesman

By Ori Nir on April 23, 2010 12:01 PM

Special to the Washington Jewish Week

On Monday, live on the Internet, the ceremony that ushers in Israel's Independence Day at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl took me back 24 years.

A rookie reporter for the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, I was covering the commemoration ceremony of Zafer al-Masri, the moderate mayor of Nablus, who on March 3, 1986 ‹ my very first day on the job as Ha'aretz's West Bank correspondent ‹ was assassinated by Palestinian radicals.

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NJ Jewish News: "Without negotiations, a dangerous status quo" by Debra DeLee, APN President & CEO

By Debra Delee on April 21, 2010 4:27 PM

The latest assault on Israel's future comes from an unexpected source: Prominent American Jews are demanding that Washington not ask Israel to negotiate over Jerusalem. Nathan Diament's article is one example.

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Ynet: "Wiesel: J'lem is above politics"

By APN on April 17, 2010 5:17 PM

Debra DeLee, president and CEO of Americans for Peace Now, published a statement in response to Wiesel saying, "Your ad in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal brought tears to my eyes, for more than one reason."

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Articles re: Fight over Legalizing / Demolishing Two Illegal Outposts

By APN on April 7, 2010 2:36 PM

- Jerusalem Post: "On W. Bank tour, Landau calls for legalizing two outposts"
- Ha'aretz: "Demolition near settlement likely to be delayed"
- Jerusalem Post: "G. Hayovel outpost status to be reviewed"
- Yedioth Achronoth: "Tearing Down the House"

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Your Letters Published Coast to Coast!

By APN on April 7, 2010 2:11 PM

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Letters to the editor spurred on by the APN Action Alert "AIPAC doesn't speak for me: Obama's leadership on Israel deserves support" have appeared in newspapers from coast to coast! Thanks to all of you who sent in letters and for making a difference.

See links to some of the letters as they appeared online.

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The Nation: "A Visit With Salam Fayyad" by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

By APN on April 5, 2010 1:44 AM

Pogrebin is an author, past president of Americans for Peace Now, and reflects on her participation in APN's recent Fact-Finding Trip to Israel and Palestine

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Before I arrived in Israel a few weeks ago, I'd read that Israeli President Shimon Peres had likened Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, to David Ben-Gurion, Israel's George Washington. So I was intrigued when, on my first night in Jerusalem, the conversation at my Israeli friends' Sabbath table was about the impressive speech Fayyad had delivered to the princes of Israel's security establishment at the recent Herzliya conference.

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Washington Jewish Week: "Netanyahu's 'Producers' moment" by Debra DeLee, APN President & CEO

By Debra Delee on April 1, 2010 4:07 PM

Today's Middle East story comes by way of Bialystock. That's Max Bialystock, the failed theater impresario of Mel Brooks' comic masterpiece The Producers.

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