Americans for Peace Now: Recommended Readings: March 2010 Archives

The New Yorker: "Special Relationships" by David Remnick

By APN on March 29, 2010 6:05 PM

For decades, mainstream Israeli politicians have taken pride in their fingertip feel for the subtleties of American life and politics. Israeli diplomats know the meeting halls of the Midwest almost as well as they do the breakfast room at the Regency Hotel. So it has been disturbing to see, during the 2008 Presidential race and after, that some right-wing members of the Israeli political élite, along with some ordinary Israelis, often seem to derive their most acute sense of Barack Obama from Fox News and the creepier nooks of the blogosphere.

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Huffington Post: "Eyewitness Report on the Judaization of East Jerusalem"

By APN on March 26, 2010 3:05 PM

by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, founding editor of Ms. magazine and the author of 10 books, and a past president of Americans for Peace Now.

"From now on, I can never say I didn't know. This, thanks to Hagit Ofran, director of Peace Now's "Settlement Watch," who spends four hours schlepping us around East Jerusalem to see Palestinian properties that have been expropriated by the Israeli government or by Jewish settlers." We're a six-member delegation from Americans for Peace Now, the U.S. counterpart of Ofran's group, and we've come to assess the damage.

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Ynet: "Israeli settlements an economic choice, says study"

By APN on March 23, 2010 2:48 PM

Data collected by Macro Center indicate main bulk of West Bank construction during Sharon, Olmert terms conducted west of separation fence in order to promote convergence plan. Yesha Council elements say data utterly groundless.

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Buildings for Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem: More to Come

By APN on March 11, 2010 4:04 PM

By Jo-Ann Mort, March 11, 2010

(Originally posted on TPM Cafe)

The announcement by Israeli Interior Minister that Israel is building 1600 more housing units in East Jerusalem made during VP Biden's visit was probably not an accident--hard to imagine otherwise. But, not simply because Eli Yishai, the Minister, wanted to embarrass the VP; also because he honestly has little interest in listening to any elected official--from his own Prime Minister to our nation's VP.

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Ha'aretz Editorial: "Editorial / U.S. is proving it wants Mideast peace - now it's Israel's turn"

By APN on March 8, 2010 1:40 PM

"Israel is not entitled to simply shrug its shoulders at the revival of the peace process."

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The visit to Israel this week by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, along with American Middle East envoy George Mitchell's meetings here, testify to the United States' readiness to not miss the opportunity to advance the peace process.

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The Silwan/Bustan Drama - two new articles from the Hebrew press

By Lara Friedman on March 5, 2010 11:18 AM

Earlier this week I blogged about Mayor Barkat's efforts to implement a grandiose settler-friendly development scheme in the Bustan area of Silwan (which Barkat calls the "Kings' Garden"). Today there are two important pieces in the Hebrew-language press today on Silwan/Bustan drama.

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