Inside out: Equality in the Arab sector
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Jonathan Rosen - (Opinion) June 13, 2012 - 12:00am

The Authority for the Economic Development of the Arab, Druse and Circassian Sectors in the Prime Minister’s Office launched a large-scale ad campaign on Sunday geared to encourage companies to hire Arab university graduates. The campaign, which urges prospective employers not to discriminate against non-Jewish applicants for jobs, was designed in response to data showing generally lower levels of employment among Arab university graduates relative to their Jewish counterparts, and a number of glaring disparities in certain fields, such as high-tech jobs.

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National-religious messianism is endangering Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Carlo Strenger - (Opinion) June 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Every month I drive to Bar-Ilan University to tape four or five discussions with national-Religious Rabbi Uri Sherki that are posted under the title "The Rabbi and the Professor" (unfortunately there are no English subtitles so far). I do this because I believe that there is desperate need for dialogue between Israel’s liberals and the national-religious. We have come to the point where we live in universes so different that it is becoming questionable how these groups can ever cooperate fruitfully for a common future.

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Israel admits it revoked residency rights of a quarter million Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Akiva Eldar - June 12, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel stripped more than 100,000 residents of Gaza and some 140,000 residents of the West Bank of their residency rights during the 27 years between its conquest of the territories in 1967 and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994. As a result, close to 250,000 Palestinians who left the territories were barred from ever returning.

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Bedouin are ‘squatters’ on their own land
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
by Hugh Naylor - June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Nuri Al Okbi’s home is an archive of his futile campaign to prove to Israel that he owns land he says has been in his family for centuries. Tucked away in boxes and stacked on bookshelves are maps and land deeds dating back to the Ottoman Empire. The collection, he says, is evidence of the Okbi clan’s ownership of land in the Al Araqib area of Israel’s Negev desert.

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Israel Seeks to Boost Hiring Of Arab University Graduates
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Yedioth Ahronoth
by Gad Lior - June 10, 2012 - 12:00am

Arab university graduates earn an average monthly income of $1,885, as compared to $3,149 in the Jewish sector, according to research that explores the integration of minority populations in the job market in Israel. It has also been found that the employment rate among Arab university graduates stands at about 81%, compared with 90% in the Jewish sector. At the same time, many of the Arab university graduates are not employed in their fields of expertise.

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Majority of Israeli Arabs Prefer to Live in Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Arieh O'Sullivan - June 8, 2012 - 12:00am

The vast majority of Israeli Arabs are reconciled with the existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and even exhibit a degree of patriotism, according to a poll released Thursday. The survey by Haifa University found that nearly one in seven (68.3%) preferred to live in Israel than anywhere else, even a future Palestinian state. It found that 57.7% are reconciled with Israel as a Jewish democratic state whose day of rest is the Sabbath on Saturday and Hebrew is the main language.

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The Nakba is a question of responsibility
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Hannan Hever - (Opinion) June 7, 2012 - 12:00am

On May 23 in these pages, Professor Yehuda Bauer wrote an open letter to Palestinian director and actor Mohammad Bakri in response to Bakri's public assertion that Israel was only created because of the Holocaust. Bakri made his statement at an event marking Nakba ("catastrophe") Day –which Palestinians commemorate annually on the anniversary of Israel's establishment.

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Does the world have room for Battir village?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
by Ghassan Olayan - (Opinion) June 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Battir, a Palestinian village south west of Jerusalem, has a charming, rural landscape which was recently recognized by UNESCO with the Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes. Battir also has had a unique agreement with Israel since 1949. The Rhodes Armistice Agreements, signed during the period of Jordanian rule over the West Bank, was implemented by Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan, Hassan Mustafa and six others from Battir village.

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Palestinian shot after stabbing Israeli officer
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 5, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli border police on Monday shot a Palestinian man who lightly injured an Israeli officer in Hebron, Israeli police and a local official said. Zaid al-Jabaari, Hebron director of religious endowments, identified the Palestinian as Laith Mashaal, 27. Mashaal prayed at the Ibrahimi Mosque on Monday afternoon before stabbing an Israeli officer outside the mosque, al-Jabaari said. Medics told Ma'an that Mashaal was transferred to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem with serious wounds.

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Israel asks Arab visitors to open emails to search
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Josef Federman - June 4, 2012 - 12:00am

When Sandra Tamari arrived at Israel's international airport, she received an unusual request: A security agent pushed a computer screen in front of her, connected to Gmail and told her to "log in." The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evidence. The 42-year-old American of Palestinian descent refused and was swiftly expelled from the country.

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