Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 39th time
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 25, 2012 - 12:00am

NEGEV (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers demolished Bedouin village al-Araqib for the 39th time on Monday, a lawyer said. Ayman Odeh, who witnessed the demolition, told Ma'an that demolishing people's homes should not be a routine for Israel. Israel considers al-Araqib and all Bedouin villages in the Negev illegal, while Bedouins say it is their ancestral land.


Israel's historic city of Acre faces tourist and settler tensions
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Harriet Sherwood - June 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Amid narrow winding alleys, crumbling courtyards and dark doorways of neglected buildings, a work of art gleams within the walls of Israel's ancient but dilapidated city of Acre. The Efendi Palace hotel opened in March after eight-and-a-half years of painstaking restoration.

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Report: Just 6% of civil service is Arab
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Tali Heruti-Sover - June 21, 2012 - 12:00am

The ad campaign to encourage hiring Arab employees has generated hundreds of requests by private businesses for Arab workers. But it turns out that government ministries, which are behind the campaign, have what to be embarrassed about.

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A Palestinian plan to attract Muslims back to Al-Aqsa
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Tom Heneghan - June 21, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The grand mosques in Mecca and Medina, the two holiest in Islam, draw millions of pilgrims annually. Al-Aqsa, the last of the three sacred sites the Prophet Mohammad urged Muslims to visit, sees only a few thousand foreign worshippers a year. The difference is political, not religious. The first two mosques are in Saudi Arabia, a proudly Muslim kingdom, while Al-Aqsa stands on Israeli-controlled land that may be the most disputed religious spot on earth.

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Israel eyes landfill site for Bedouin nomads
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Jihan Abdalla - June 20, 2012 - 12:00am

Bedouin tents and wandering goats dot the barren hills on the drive from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea, giving residents and visitors a glimpse of how the Holy Land must have looked in ancient times. With their corrals, water cisterns and tractors the camps look more like rudimentary homesteads. But the Bedouin tradition is slowly dying out as Israel clears the camps to make way for expanding Jewish urban settlements.

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Why Susya is "Illegal"
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Moriel Rothman - (Opinion) June 20, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel plans to demolish the entire village of Susya.  Defending the proposed demolition, the "Defense/Security" section of the settler news site Arutz Sheva (they file anything relating to Arabs under "defense" or "security") calls Susya an "illegal Arab outpost in the southern Hevron Hills." Their arguments are lousy and typical apologetics for Israel’s unjust land policies in the West Bank. 

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Israel must end discrimination against Arab college graduates
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
(Editorial) June 15, 2012 - 12:00am

Walid bin Karim, a young architect looking for work at an architecture firm owned by Jews, is the star of a new ad by the Government Advertising Bureau. The spot encourages the employment of Arab college graduates. “What’s wrong with an Israeli Arab in your office?” asks the ad. It provides the answer: Nothing’s wrong.

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Assimilating Awad
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Sahar Segal - (Opinion) June 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Mira Anwar Awad, an Arab-Israeli, will be singing at a festival in Nazareth, a predominantly Arab-Israeli city on Saturday. The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), based in Ramallah, demanded the mayor cancel her appearance. Why? Because Awad represented Israel in the 2009 Eurovision song contest.

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No Arabs in Israeli Olympic Delegation
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Yedioth Ahronoth
by Erin Lahav - June 14, 2012 - 12:00am

The Israeli delegation to the Olympics in London will not include even one Arab athlete. Not that it’s been any better in previous years; only two Arabs have represented the country in Olympic Games to date. The Arab sector is convinced that this is due to discrimination, but the athletic establishment denies the accusations.

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Israel court acquits Palestinian teens of East Jerusalem firebomb attack
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Oz Rosenberg - June 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Five East Jerusalem teenagers were acquitted on Wednesday of throwing rocks and firebombs - but only after having spent a year and a quarter in jail or under house arrest.

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