As Trump Meets Bibi, Poll Finds Global Desire to Invest in Peace Plan While "facts on the ground rightly fuel ongoing skepticism," ALLMEP's recent 64-country poll still finds "int'l will to help Trump & the parties move forward." 🧵 bit.ly/PulseGlobal via @timesofisrael

Voices you're not hearing. Powerful new single from nextgen leaders at Jerusalem Youth Chorus: "Despite all the violence, we face the horizon.... We are looking to the future, standing as one.... We will build it. Standing together, we'll make this world better." bit.ly/4rQw6PT

A #ceasefire b/w #Israel and #Iran is a moment of #hope. Hope of respite for millions of people from living in fear. Respite from planes & missiles filling their skies, disrupting life & sleep, & terrifying kids. But it requires notes of caution, too, and careful steps forward.🧵

For those who ask how it's going w/peacebuilding, this @ittay78.bsky.social 8 piece captures it. "The energy was electric, but so was the pain." W/families under fire, 100s planned future programs, putting civil society for 1st time "at the heart" of diplomacy. bit.ly/how-its-going

Surprise! New data from ALLMEP's AI Pulse survey says some of the loudest voices are wrong when they claim #Israelis can't accept any day-after plans b/c they can't accept a #Palestinian state. In fact... 🧵 bit.ly/75palstate

USAID had "substantial expertise in designing, delivering and monitoring humanitarian programming, tailored to the politically sensitive environment." It "engaged constructively" with Israel. It's "considerable... know-how" is "so desperately needed" now.

From Texas Lyceum, working on civil politics in TX for 45 yrs: 69% of Texans say it's possible to disagree respectfully about politics and avoid the nasty. "Your political opponent is not your enemy.... how we argue matters as much as what we argue." Tips and a call to action...

ICYMI: "'Many people saw the lie,' one expert says. 'Fewer saw the correction'" "How conspiracy theories about Palestinian arsonists spread like wildfire in Israel Old videos, misleading maps and political rhetoric turned a natural disaster into a national scapegoating campaign."

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

Anahnu: "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the civil disputes within Israel are not separate issues but are intertwined. Israel's social, political, and identity structure creates a situation where solving one issue requires addressing the other."

RBF statement: "Philanthropy is the economic engine of civil society" & "[i]ndependent from partisan agendas." W/non-profits under attack, it says its "philanthropic practices are built to weather these storms."

Israeli/American Jewish letter on Ben-Gvir's visit: "He is not welcome in our country. He does not represent us as Jews or as Israelis. We steadfastly oppose his dark vision for Judaism, Israel and for the Middle East.”

In today's cartoonish politics, some would call it betrayal to even ask or consider the questions, but struggling w/these issues is the most loyal act -- not only to humanity & morality but to one's own society & security.

There is no victory after so much death. 1000s families can never be whole. The closest thing to winning is saving those still alive -- hostages & civilians alike. For them & their kids, it's not too late to end the death and actually secure the future.

I have personally seen professors unwilling to post lecture slides... even on subjects like the Holocaust, out of fear of retaliation.... Some urge students to frontload courses now before they vanish from the catalog."

A silent protest changes the conversation: Instead of being "jeered and even threatened" as in the past, "when they first sat silently with the photos, they were met initially with questions and, eventually, support."

@indivisible.org: "Courage is contagious."

Four Russian journalists have been convicted of extremism and jailed for working with an anti-corruption group founded by the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, highlighting the perils of independent journalism amid an intensified Kremlin crackdown on freedom of expression.

"Mahdawi's advocates say he spent the months leading up to his arrest doing something unexpected: forging relationships with Israeli & Jewish students... His vision was clear, including a two-state solution..." Israeli: "His compassion blew me away."

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was illegally deported to El Salvador asks for the U.S. government to return him outside a court hearing on the matter.

Ilan Amit: "The convergence of USAID’s funding freeze, the Kallner Law... & budget cuts form a perfect storm." The hardest hit? Not "a handful of Tel Aviv leftists sipping coffee," but "an employment engine pulling an entire economic train." buff.ly/qhSDT2w

Universities must train us for democracy. They "equip students with the skills to evaluate evidence critically, consider issues from multiple perspectives, participate... in the exchange of ideas, and grapple with the difficult and the complex...."

"US international assistance protects our interests." Concise 30-second case.

Hostage relative: "We don't want revenge," Alziadana says. "Revenge over whom? A mother in Gaza who no longer has children? I don't want Hamas, I don't want this organization to run Gaza, our entire family agrees on that. But what would revenge do? Will it bring back Hamza? Youssef?"

"a summary for the year 2024 finds that a record-low 1.4 percent of interviewees, analysts and personalities who appeared on [Israeli] broadcasts were Arab, even though Arabs make up 21.1 percent of the population"

IDF punished "officers and troops for vandalizing Palestinian property, during an unwarranted search of a village in the southern West Bank over the weekend... IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir went to Jinba himself to investigate the incident."

Absolutely shameful.👇 "None of the top 20 law firms in the US have so far offered their 'unconditional support' to an effort by Perkins Coie to fight sanctions imposed by the Trump administration." www.ft.com/content/494a...

Leftist? This U.S. Orthodox Rabbi Speaking Against the Israeli Government Prefers 'Realist' buff.ly/e6VZFUe

My own experience w/USIP and those who worked there is that they were allies of people around the world doing the hardest work for peace and security,.

And once again, 69% of Israelis support a deal to return the hostages and end the war. Including a majority (54%) of those who voted for the current government. Source: Israel Ch. 12. buff.ly/xMM07sB

After 71,023 objections, this bill passed -- another crack in the wall of democracy becomes law. How did they justify it? 🧵 www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-pass...

Not the first, just the latest & maybe most visible. Other reports indicated 1000s protesting against Hamas.

If the kids are asking "which side are you on?" we know something's off the rails. It means another generation is at risk of tolerating or even embracing the false binaries that got us here. And specifically in the place where they could learn better & build partners.

The Netanyahu gov't passes a budget & a major hurdle to its survival. “All prices have increased... water, electricity and property taxes… but they haven’t cut a single penny in coalition funds,” says Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman."

"Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “ No Other Land ” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses."

Dozens of settlers attacked Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land," wounding him and others, activists at the scene and Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham said. Witnesses also said Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance

In other countries where lawyers, courts, and rule of law came under anti-democratic attacks, the lawyers took to the streets b/c they knew too well what was at stake. What's the plan @americanbar.org? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...

ICYMI, even after all this destruction, Hamas can still terrorize Gaza and fire rockets at Israel. Unending war - and refusing to replace Hamas - didn't work. Nor will more of the same.

After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency. Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:

*This* is a crazy story, including b/c it's probably one of the quicker, happier endings. Without the right to a lawyer or due process, this could happen to any person.

Nonprofit @USIP sues @DOGE and @POTUS to stop a "takeover by force" - USIP's own former security guards broke in, USIP forcibly evicted from its own building, & DOGE "plundered the offices," shredded docs, tore down logo. Court hearing today at 2pm. buff.ly/vYJ8WBb

My heart tonight is in the East, thinking about the Israeli hostages and the people of Gaza. They deserve to come home and rebuild their lives. The first 15 months of war brought them all only danger and ruin. This will be no different.

Interior Minister Moshe Arbel of the Shas party at Givat Haviva conference: “In Arab society, there is an expanding attitude of condemning violence and seeking partnership, and the Jewish majority has the obligation to extend a hand in return” 1/3

Bedouin tracker, who defended IDF female lookouts at Nahal Oz on October 7, recommended for Medal of Valor: Warrant Officer Ibrahim Kharuba fought until his last bullet defending the female lookouts at Nahal Oz base on October 7

Also held up: Aid that supports the ceasefire b/w #Israel & #Gaza. "USAID was supposed to fund much of the aid to Gaza as the ceasefire progressed, and the Trump administration approved over $383 million on Jan. 31 to that end, according to three USAID officials."

Two generals: Gutting foreign aid gives China a big advantage. "We need to play both offense & defense... to outcompete rivals like China; prevent costly wars; and stop disease, drugs & terror from reaching our borders." Foreign aid does that. #SaferStronger

At risk of being taxed out of existence under pending anti-NGO legislation... a clinic for asylum seekers in Jaffa, which treats about a thousand patients a year, people who Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and other lands seeking refuge...

"The Trump admin has been holding direct talks with Hamas" to "release [] U.S. hostages" & on "possibility of a broader deal to end the war... The U.S. had never before engaged directly with Hamas, which it designated a terrorist organization in 1997."

#Israel & #Hamas already signed a deal to return hostages, surge aid to Gazans, & end a brutal war. Despite violations, it has held. It's made both peoples & the region more secure. Its collapse would harm & empower the extremes. Time to learn from the past & begin to rebuild.