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Peace Now in the Press: May 2010 Archives

JTA: "U.S. Jewish groups weigh in on flotilla"

APN and Peace Now's statements are quoted extensively in this article covering initial responses to the Gaza Flotilla confrontation.

By TIA GOLDENBERG (AP)

JERUSALEM -- When Devorah Adler's children go to school, they pass underneath the gun-toting security officer who stands on their roof 24-hours a day, walk down a path dotted by surveillance cameras and get in a van manned by another armed guard.

by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor

Ori Nir grew up in Israel, but now lives in the United States. He wrote for Israeli newspaper Haaretz, but is now the spokesman for Americans for Peace Now. When it comes to understanding the U.S.-Israeli relationship, views don't come more two-sided than Nir's.

Rally 5-15-10 320x265.jpgJerusalem Post: "Thousands join left-wing J'lem rally"

by Abe Selig

National Left, Peace Now groups call for "an end to the occupation."

Under the banner "Zionists are not settlers!" thousands of people demonstrated near Zion Square in Jerusalem on Saturday night to voice their disapproval of government policy and declare their support for a "Jewish state, for the Jewish people, with clear and recognized borders."


Ha'aretz: "The facts on the ground"

Hagit Ofran leading tour in E J'lem 186x140.jpgOnce a week, Hagit Ofran − granddaughter of the late Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz − tours the West Bank as head of Peace Now's Settlement Watch project. Israel's policy in the territories, she says, is putting us all at risk.

By Gitit Ginat

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