They made it costly for the government," Hagit Ofran, director of the Settlement Watch program of Peace Now, said.
MARGARITA ROSA New York, July 5 , 2001The writer, executive director of Grand Street Settlement, was New York State human rights commissioner under Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
Hagit Ofran, the director of the Settlement Watch project of the once influential Peace Now movement, told me, "Our fight today is not so much to persuade the Israeli public that we need two states.
When asked about the contracting process, Michael Zisser, the executive director of University Settlement on the Lower East Side, said, "Have you read Kafka?" Mr. Zisser, whose organization has about two dozen contracts for child care, literary programs and mental health assistance, added, "It's almost amusing, except that it takes so much time".
If there is any element that will forge community, it will probably be the community center, which is to be owned and operated jointly by the University Settlement and the Y.M.C.A. "Everything in it was requested by the community," said Michael Zisser, executive director of the settlement.
He's the deputy director of their Settlement Watch project, which does pretty much exactly what you would think it does.
Noureddine Belhocine, director of immigrant settlement organization La Maison Internationale de la Rive-Sud, says he was also contacted last week but that he found the call "normal".
He has been recently appointed as the incoming Executive Director of Grand St .Settlement, a nonprofit serving the needs of low income families in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn, New York.
Hagit Ofran, the settlement watch director of the anti-settlement group Peace Now, said that the announcement is consistent with Netanyahu's vision for a permanently occupied West Bank.
"If you read the newspapers, the tone is quite negative and sometimes quite racist," says Hamdi Mohamed, director of an immigrant-settlement organisation in Ottawa.Public opinion in Canada has been affected by the European backlash and by fears of terrorist attacks (of which Canada has been free in recent years).
