Americans for Peace Now: Recommended Readings: August 2011 Archives

Israel's Image Won't Improve Without Policy Changes

By APN on August 30, 2011 1:54 PM

By Gary Wexler

The thousands of scantily clothed bikers, skateboarders, walkers, hawkers, gawkers and performers were simply taking advantage of another breezy, crystal clear Southern California day. They had fought their way valiantly through relentless freeway traffic to participate in the year-round weekend ritual of parading down Los Angeles' bohemian thoroughfare, the Venice Beach boardwalk.

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The New Republic: "Why the Protests in Israel Are Cause for Hope" by Michael Walzer

By APN on August 15, 2011 1:21 PM

"This is a protest against what Israel has become, in the name of what it once was. It is an effort by the youngest Israelis to recapture an older, more egalitarian, more idealistic, country that their parents lost."

Michael Walzer is a contributing editor for The New Republic, professor emeritus of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a board member of Americans for Peace Now.

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Ha'aretz: "In his father's name" by Michael Sfard

By APN on August 10, 2011 1:06 AM

"Israel Harel defends the crime, not the criminal, and in his effort to help his son, he justified an immoral, illegal and un-Jewish act."

Attorney Michael Sfard represented the petitioners on behalf of Peace Now in the Migron case both at the High Court of Justice and at the Magistrate's Court.

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Palestinians and the UN- New York Times Editorial

By APN on August 8, 2011 5:26 PM

In little more than a month, the Palestinians are expected to ask the United Nations to recognize their state. We have sympathy for their yearning and their frustration. For years, they have been promised a negotiated solution -- President Obama called for a peace deal by September -- and they are still empty-handed. But the consequences could be profoundly damaging for all involved.

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Ha'aretz: "We are brethren" by Amos Oz

By APN on August 1, 2011 7:53 PM

The resources required for establishing social justice in Israel are located in three places:

First, the billions Israel has invested in the settlements, which are the greatest mistake in the state's history, as well as its greatest injustice...

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Housing and the Settlements: The Dilemma of the Encampments

By Lara Friedman on August 1, 2011 12:54 PM

By former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin

The housing problem in Israel is not new. It will also not be solved now. It has no magic solution, and this is not the sort of thing that changes dramatically following a cabinet resolution or a Knesset law, unless somebody decides to build social housing on an unprecedented scale. There is no such person, and if there were, I would suggest that he beware of such a move.

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