Romney slams Obama for 'lecturing Israel's leaders'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Leading into his major trip to the UK, Israel and Poland to highlight his foreign policy competence and positions, US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday lashed out at US President Barack Obama for "lecturing Israel's leaders."

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Will Obama do something about colonies if re-elected?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Gulf News
by George S. Hishmeh - (Opinion) July 19, 2012 - 12:00am

A lengthy account in the Washington Post of the Obama administration’s nearly four-year fruitless effort to resolve the 64-year-old conflict between Palestinians and Israelis — running over four pages — carried the eye-catching headline, Where Obama failed on Middle East, and the subhead elaborated, Despite years of US trying new approach, Israelis and Palestinians came no closer.

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Ex-U.S. official: American dominance over Mideast peace process is ending
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Allison Kaplan Sommer - (Opinion) June 21, 2012 - 12:00am

The era of U.S. dominance over the Middle East peace process is coming to an end, a former top American official said at the fourth Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on Thursday, adding that what happens in the Middle East won’t influence the upcoming U.S. presidential elections.

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Most Israelis think Romney would be 'friendlier'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Herb Keinon - June 15, 2012 - 12:00am

The fact that Israelis have conflicted attitudes toward US President Barack Obama came out loud and clear in a poll released on Thursday. The survey – commissioned by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, the Bar-Ilan University Center for International Communication and the Anti-Defamation League – found that while 51 percent of Israeli Jews believe Obama is “friendly” or “very friendly” toward Israel, more people think the expected Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, would better promote Israel’s interests.

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Jordan presses US to refocus on Israeli-Palestinian conflict before November election
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Hill
by Julian Pecquet - June 12, 2012 - 12:00am

The Obama administration needs to recommit to helping solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or risk the ire of a whole generation of Arab youth demanding democratic change in the region, Jordan's foreign minister cautioned during a visit to Washington Tuesday. “You don't want to get to the U.S. election without something substantial in motion,” Nasser Judeh said in remarks at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Judeh addressed the think tank after meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday.

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Romney's Israel Brand
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Bernard Avishai - (Opinion) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

When I joined the strategy consulting firm Monitor (now Monitor Group) in the spring of 1992, the first party its directors, my new colleagues, invited me to was at Mitt Romney's mansion in Belmont. Romney was at the time still with Bain Capital; Monitor’s founders had been Bainies before launching out on their own and remained his friends. Romney’s political ambitions were already clear.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Americans For Peace Now
(Interview) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Yossi Alpher visited the Peace Now offices in DC last week, as Israel marked 45 years since the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem were captured in the Six-Day War. 

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Obama worried PA not interested in peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
June 6, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON -- US President Barack Obama is worried that Palestinian leadership was no longer as interested in advancing toward peace, he said in a conversation with Orthodox Jewish leaders on Tuesday.

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Divergent Path on Israel Helps Lobby Group Grow
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Eric Lichtblau - May 30, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON — There was a time not so long ago when political contributions from Americans supportive of Israel inevitably veered toward those Congressional candidates who were the most hawkish and outspoken in defending Israel and its security.

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Romney’s Triumph Smooths Sharp Edges of GOP Middle East Policy Rhetoric
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
by Ron Kampeas - April 17, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Republican primaries are effectively over, and gone with them is the sharp-edged rhetoric and departures from past U.S. policy on the Middle East. Gone is Rick Santorum’s pledge to strike Iran and his suggestion that West Bank Palestinians should be referred to as Israelis. Gone is Newt Gingrich’s suggestion that the United States is engaged in a “long struggle with radical Islamists” and reference to the Palestinians as an “invented” people.

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