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Recommended Readings: November 2011 Archives

NPR / AP: "Israel Shuts Down Dovish Radio Station"

By APN on November 21, 2011 11:47 AM

All_For_Peace_Radio186x140.jpgBy Amichai Atali

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel has ordered the shutdown of a dovish Israeli-Palestinian radio station, officials and the station's operators said on Sunday.

(NOTE: The station's director Mossi Raz is a former director of Peace Now in Israel)

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We are the real patriots

By APN on November 21, 2011 11:06 AM
Thumbnail image for Yariv Maariv.jpg(Interview with Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer; Maariv, 11/20/11, by Amichai Atali - Translation by Israel News Today)

If the series of bills whose purpose is to place restrictions on left-wing organizations in Israel is approved by the Knesset in the near future, one of the organizations that can be expected to be hit hardest is Peace Now.

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Pro-settlement attacks by Israeli militants endanger any hope of peace

By APN on November 14, 2011 11:31 AM
By Trudy Rubin

JERUSALEM - When Hagit Ofran woke up Tuesday - within days of the 16th anniversary of the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin - she found death threats spray-painted on her door.

"You are dead. Ofran, Rabin is waiting for you," was the message scrawled in red against the white walls of her stairwell.

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Smearing Israel's 'Peace Now' Movement

By APN on November 14, 2011 11:08 AM
By Ted Lieverman

During the Vietnam War, many Americans held the notion that all antiwar activists were naïve pacifists, draft-dodgers or ungrateful traitors. That was largely a myth that allowed members of the public to ignore the content of the activists' messages about the war.

There may be a similarly mistaken notion about the peace movement in Israel, as the Israeli right-wing repeatedly castigates those who favor a two-state solution that would create a viable Palestine as an independent nation. In the last two months, criticism has moved to more dangerous attacks against Shalom Achshav (Peace Now), the oldest and most active peace organization in Israel.

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Why We Have Taken a Stand with the US Supreme Court

By Debra Delee on November 7, 2011 2:33 PM
Supreme_Court_w_APNlines_186x140.jpgBy Debra DeLee

An important case, Zivotofsky v. Clinton, is about to come before the U.S. Supreme Court.  It relates to U.S. policy on Jerusalem, but isn't really about Jerusalem.  Rather, it is about longstanding efforts by the U.S. Congress to wrest foreign policy-making authority away from the executive branch.  How this case is decided will have far-reaching ramifications for America's policy, far beyond Jerusalem.

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