Impressions from a Peace Now volunteering action at the Gaza border community that suffered the heaviest toll on October 7th.
A recording of a November 30th APN webinar.
Dave Harden and Larry Garber are former directors of the West Bank and Gaza office of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In this episode, they discuss the challenges of addressing the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and the rebuilding of Gaza after the war ends.
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Ideological settlers are seriously talking about plans to resettle the Gaza Strip, to re-establish Gush Katif and turn back the clock on the 2005 disengagement, which they perceive as a national trauma. Eyal Lurie Pardes, a visiting fellow at Washington's Middle East Institute, discusses this matter.
Eyal's article on this topic in the Forward: https://forward.com/opinion/568553/israel-settler-movement-gaza-reoccupy/
Eyal's article on the Israeli government's curtailing the freedom of expresion during the Gaza war: https://www.mei.edu/publications/amid-gaza-war-palestinian-citizens-israel-feel-target-witch-hunt
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A recording of an APN November 9th webinar with Hagit Ofran and Yonatan Mizrachi, the co-directors of Peace Now's Settlement Watch Project.
Arnon Avni, an Israeli cartoonist and graphic designer, is a member of kibbutz Nirim, near the Gaza border. He is a longtime peace activist with Peace Now, Israel’s preeminent peace movement. On October 7th 2023, he hid in his home’s bomb shelter with his wife and two grandchildren, escaping the terrorist attack. Five people were killed in Nirim that day. Others were kidnapped to Gaza. Despite the shock and the pain and the grief, Avni still believes in peace and is determined to pursue it.
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This episode’s guest is Dr. Michael Robbins of Princeton University. He is the co-author of an article that was published on October 26th 2023 in Foreign Affairs, titled What Palestinians really think of Hamas.
Dr. Robbins is the director and co-principal investigator of the Arab Barometer.
Link to the article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/what-palestinians-really-think-hamas
Link to the Arab Barometer: https://www.arabbarometer.org/
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Recording of an October 11th 2023 APN webinar with Strategic expert Yossi Alpher.
Recording of a September 28th 2023 APN webinar with Haaretz's diplomatic correspondent Amir Tibon.
Recording of a September 21st 2023 APN webinar with Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin.
Dr. Arnon Degani, a scholar who focuses on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the producer of a Hebrew language podcast on the Oslo process, comes back to PeaceCast for a deeper dive into the topic on the 30th anniversary of the Oslo agreements.
Arnon was our guest a year ago on episode # 255.
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Recording of an August 31rd APN webinar with Letty Cottin Pogrebin, discussing her new book.
Amos Guiora is a professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel, and in the past few months has become very active in Israel’s pro-democracy protest movement, both in the US and Israel.
Here are links to the two articles he mentions in this episode, published in The Hill:
And here is a link to the University of Utah College of Law’s Bystander Initiative, which Prof. Guiora founded and runs: https://sjquinney.utah.edu/news-articles/new-initiative-studies-ecosystem-of-abuse/
Recording of an August 14th APN webinar.
Shahira Shalabi is the Co-Deputy CEO for Programs of the Abraham Initiatives, where she runs the mixed cities program. Before joining the Abraham Initiatives, she served as the Deputy Mayor of Haifa, was a member of the Haifa city council, and was among the founders of the Palestinian feminist movement in Israel.
Adam Rasgon, a journalist specializing in covering Palestinian affairs, is the co-author of a recent Foreign Policy profile of Hussein Al-Sheikh, the chief assistant of the Palestinian Authority's President Mahoud Abbas. He is also the chief PA's liaison to Israel. In this episode he discusses the story he co-authored with the New York Times' Aaron Boxerman.
Link to the Foreign Policy story: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/31/palestine-hussein-al-sheikh-nationalism-fatah-west-bank-palestinian-authority-israel/
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Recording of a July 31st APN webinar with Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Albanese's new report is available here: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session53/advance-versions/A_HRC_53_59_AdvanceUneditedVersion.pdf
A recording of a July 24th APN webinar to discuss the repercussions of the Isaeli government's assault on democracy.
Sally Abed, a social activist, and Dina Kraft, a journalist and author, are the anchors of Groundwork, a successful podcast co-sponsored by the New Israel Fund and the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). In this episode they talk about the second season of their podcast.
Link to Groundwork: https://groundworkpodcast.com/
Links to past PeaceCast episodes that featured Salli and Dina:
- https://peacenow.libsyn.com/2001-introducing-groundwork
- https://peacenow.libsyn.com/100-accentuating-the-positive-with-dina-kraft
- https://peacenow.libsyn.com/232-standing-together
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A recording of a July 10th 2023 webinar with Peace Now's Executive Director Lior Amihai.
APN intern Rochelle Berman spent her gap year in the West Bank, observing occupation friction points. In this episode, she reflects on this unique experience.
A recording of a June 29th 2023 APN webinar with Hady Amr, the US Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs.
A recording of a June 16th 2023 APN webinar.
Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal is one of the world's leading experts on intractable condlicts. In his new book, Sinking into the Honey Trap - The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bar-Tal lays out his analysis of Israeli society's attitude toward its conflict with the Palestinians. The book is available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Sinking-into-Honey-Trap-Israeli-Palestinian/dp/1637237162.
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A recording of a June 5th 2023 APN webinar.
On the 56th anniversary of the Six Day War, which marks the beginning of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, this episode features a small story that may inspire some hope for ending the occupation, for Isreali-Palestinian peace and reconciliation. This episode's guest is Yair Barak, who at the time of the war was a reserves soldier in the IDF and participated in the fighting in Jerusalem. He recently returned to the Muslim Waqf in Jerusalem's Old City a key to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which he took during the war, 56 years ago.
His story was recently featured in a Haaretz magazine piece by Nir Hasson.