{"id":5644,"date":"2014-07-18T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2014-08-27T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T03:18:31","slug":"haaretz-conference-provides-platform-for-renewing-peace-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2014\/07\/18\/haaretz-conference-provides-platform-for-renewing-peace-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaretz conference provides platform for renewing peace push"},"content":{"rendered":"

To some, it was a (peace) camp reunion. To others, it served notice that peace with the Palestinians has returned to its place atop the agenda of Israel\u2019s political left following its dalliance with socioeconomic issues. To the more than 2,000 participants in Haaretz <\/em>newspaper\u2019s Israel Peace Conference held last week at Tel Aviv\u2019s David InterContinental Hotel, it was an elegant opportunity to mingle with the iconic stewardship of days past \u2013 topped by Shimon Peres \u2013 while honing the movement\u2019s agenda among those poised to embrace the next wave of leadership, such as opposition head and Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog and activist-turned-politician Stav Shaffir, who personifies the bridge from social activism to the politics of peace.<\/p>\n

The history of the Israeli Peace Conference was itself microcosmic of the fortunes of the movement it supports. The idea began amid optimism born of word of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry\u2019s peace mission, according to conference chief executive officer, journalist Akiva Eldar. \u201cThe original idea was to push [Israeli] Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to say \u2018yes\u2019 to Kerry but, around April, everything came to a halt,\u201d he told this reporter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe kept pushing it off, finally setting it for July,\u201d said Eldar, senior columnist for Al-Monitor<\/em>. But, by the time the date rolled around, a new set of obstacles had presented themselves in the form of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens followed by the killing of a Palestinian youth. The atmosphere became more toxic to the point where key Palestinian participants, chief negotiator Sa\u2019ib Erakat and businessman Munib Al-Masri, pulled out of the conference. Yet, the decision was made to continue as planned. According to Eldar, \u201cWe decided we don\u2019t give veto power to terrorists on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more at themedialine.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To some, it was a (peace) camp reunion. To others, it served notice that peace with the Palestinians has returned to its place atop the agenda of Israel\u2019s political left following its dalliance with socioeconomic issues. To the more than 2,000 participants in Haaretz newspaper\u2019s Israel Peace Conference held last week at Tel Aviv\u2019s David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[1585,641,1584],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","tag-akiva-eldar","tag-haaretz","tag-israeli-peace-conference"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}