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. contact Ori: [email protected]

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:

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4095672-us-must-respond-to-israels-toleration-of-west-bank-settlers-pogroms-terrorism/

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4142038-biden-needs-to-have-a-tough-talk-with-israels-netanyahu/

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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