An edited version of a briefing call with Yossi Alpher on the coalition agreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. The focus is on the West Bank annexation provision in the agreement.
This is the second part of our first “Virtual Dove” episode, featuring stories by former ambassadors to Israel. Our first part featured stories by former US Jerusalem consul generals Jake Walles and Ed Abington.
This part features stories by former Canadian ambassador to Israel Jon Allen and former US ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer.
Recordings of past “The Dove” shows: here, here, here and here.
This special episode of PaceCast is our first “Virtual Dove” episode, featuring personal, human stories, vignettes, anecdotes, and experiences that underscore positivity in and around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Maybe even hope.
The first show of Virtual Dove features stories by former ambassadors to Israel and former US Jerusalem consul generals.
The show is split into two parts. The fist part, this episode, features two former US Consul generals to Jerusalem, Jacob (Jake) Walles and Edward (Ed) Abington. Their stories shed light on two of the most promising chapters in Israeli-Palestinian relations.
The second part will be uploaded soon. It will feature stories by two former ambassadors to Israel.
Stay tuned.
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Recordings of past “The Dove” shows: here, here, here and here.
This episode, recorded on April 13th 2020, is an edited version of a briefing call with Shaqued Morag and Brian Reeves of Israel’s Peace Now movement. Shaqued Morag is the Executive Director of Peace Now. Brian Reeves is the Director of External Relations at Peace Now. The briefing focused on the prospects of West Bank annexation and how the specter of West Bank annexation impacts Peace Now and Israel’s peace movement.
This episode is an edited version of the audio from a webinar co-sponsored by the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) and Americans for Peace Now. The webinar featured Brian Reeves, the director of external relations at the Israeli peace movement, Shalom Achshav, Peace Now, and Lior Amihai, the executive director of the Israeli organization Yesh Din. Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, moderated the conversation.
A video recording of the webinar
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Hagar Shezaf is the new West Bank correspondent of Haaretz. In this episode she discusses her current reportage on the spike in violent attacks by West Bank settlers against Palestinians.
Hagar also spoke about an explosive expose she published in Haaretz last summer, where she revealed that Israel’s security establishment was systematically combing through archives and picking out embarrassing or incriminating documentation of what could ebe considered as war crimes against the Palestinian civilians during the 1948 war, the so-called Nakba.
Hagar’s story on settler violence.
Hagar’s piece on purging the archives.
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Haaretz Columnist Bradley Burston talks about recent developments and future prospects in Israel's political arena as the Coronavirus creates a new reality.