The politics of land ownership in the Negev
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by David Newman - (Opinion) June 4, 2012 - 12:00am

The opening session of the annual workshop of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben-Gurion University taking place this week focused on the complex issue of the law and politics of land rights and property among the Beduin in Israel.

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Isn’t Israel Already a ‘Jewish State’?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Forward
by Leonard Fein - (Opinion) June 3, 2012 - 12:00am

A leading Palestinian negotiator says that for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state would “adversely impact the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel.” Not at all, say Yosef Kuperwasser, director general of Israel’s ministry of strategic affairs and Shalom Lipner, special coordinator for public diplomacy in the Prime Minister’s Office. This, they insist, “is a baseless argument, since Israel will continue to guarantee the full and equal civil rights of all its citizens.”

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The Nakba is alive for both Jews and Arabs
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Salman Masalha - (Opinion) May 31, 2012 - 12:00am

Let's set aside for a moment the discourse about human rights and the debate about natural rights, because no salvation will come from them. Moreover, they will never lead to a solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On the contrary, they pour oil on the flames and encourage people to continue wallowing in the mud.

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Israel to return 91 bodies on Thursday
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
May 30, 2012 - 12:00am

The Palestinian Authority civil affairs minister said late Tuesday that Israel will return the bodies of 91 Palestinians buried in an Israeli cemetery on Thursday. Hussein al-Sheikh released a list of names agreed with Israel, whose remains will now be handed to the PA in what the minister described as the first stage of the return of 100 Palestinians. The hand-over of Palestinian remains was promised on May 14 by Ofir Gendelman, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as a "gesture" to President Mahmoud Abbas.

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Violence, poverty besets Palestinians in Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Jihan Abdalla - May 30, 2012 - 12:00am

LOD, Israel (Reuters) -- "My friend is on the floor, dying, 11 holes in his body, and I only have 10 fingers," raps Tamer Nafar. "Don't close your eyes, blink if you can hear me." Nafar isn't rapping about violence and crime in urban America, but murders, drugs, guns and gang warfare in his own slum inside Israel.

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Kadima MK: Send human rights activists to prison camps
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Omri Efraim - May 29, 2012 - 12:00am

If given the opportunity, some Israeli human rights groups "would be the first to put haredim and settlers on buses and transfer them," Knesset Member Yulia Shamalov Berkovich said Tuesday during a heated House Committee debate of on the influx of foreign migrants into the country.

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Court determines Teitel murdered Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Joanna Paraszczuck - May 29, 2012 - 12:00am

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday approved an unusual plea bargain made between the district attorney and lawyers representing Jack Teitel, and determined that the defendant had murdered two Palestinians and committed other violent crimes. Judges Segal, Moshe Hacohen and Moshe Yair Drori said that the court determined that Teitel committed the acts attributed to him in an amended indictment.

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Security for Israeli settlers, not for Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Eyal Gross - (Opinion) May 29, 2012 - 12:00am

When the High Court of Justice upheld the constitutionality (in 2006 and again in January ) of the Citizenship Law clause prohibiting residency permits in Israel for Palestinians from the territories, even if they have an Israeli domestic partner, it based its ruling on the state's justification for the clause. That justification ostensibly stems from security concerns: The state said that in 54 cases since 2001, Palestinians who where involved in terror, or their parents, were legal residents in Israel.

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Israel curbing Arab enrollment in medical schools, activists say
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times
by Edmund Sanders - May 28, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — A Jerusalem court on Monday convicted two Israeli police of negligent homicide for abandoning an injured Palestinian man on a roadside, where he was found dead two days later. The case has raised questions about failures that led to the death of Omar Abu Jarban, a car thief from the Gaza Strip who illegally lived in Israel. The man was passed from medical officials to prison and police authorities before he died.

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Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Yousef Munayyer - (Opinion) May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

I’M a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles apart, we met almost 6,000 miles away in Massachusetts, where we attended neighboring colleges.

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