October 6th

In praise of a brave woman
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Ray Hanania - September 24, 2008 - 8:00pm

In the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that dominates everyone's attention and the news, another fight for the protection of children, families and Christian education is taking place in the Middle East. It is being waged by an Arab-Israeli woman named Nadia Hilou who has bucked the systems in Israel and in the Palestinian community to do what some thought impossible. A long time advocate of children and family rights, Hilou is a citizen of Israel and ran for the Israeli Knesset so she could advocate for the rights of all people in Israel, Arab and Jewish.

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IDF, PA coordinate security for olive harvest
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Tovah Lazaroff - October 5, 2008 - 8:00pm

IDF officials have met figures in the Palestinian Authority to coordinate passage of Palestinian farmers through the security barrier so that they can harvest their olive trees located on the Israeli side. "As part of these preparations, meetings have been held between Civil Administration personnel and their Palestinian colleagues," the IDF said in a statement. "The meetings included representatives of the various villages in the region, as well as important figures from the PA including [officials from] the Olive Oil Department."

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Livni’s First Mistake
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Danny Rothschild - (Opinion) October 4, 2008 - 8:00pm

Tzipi Livni was elected to lead Kadima and is the party’s candidate for prime minister. We should congratulate her and wish her success – after all, her success is our success. However, Livni started her maneuvers with a grave strategic mistake, by obligating, in her talks with Shas, that the Jerusalem question will not be on the agenda vis-à-vis the Palestinians and that talks regarding the capital’s future will be postponed to an unknown date.

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Israeli group is Breaking the Silence over Hebron
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
by Cherrie Heywood - October 3, 2008 - 8:00pm

An Israeli police commander has called them "provocateurs," "militants," and "lawbreakers." Earlier in the year the Israeli Army decided that their presence in the flashpoint city of Hebron, 30 kilometers south of Occupied Jerusalem in the Occupied West Bank, constituted a security threat and banned them from the city, stating that any member of the organization caught there would be expelled forthwith.

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Palestinians: Divided We Fall
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Le Monde Diplomatique
by Amira Hass - December 31, 1969 - 8:00pm

At the beginning of July, people in the West Bank and Gaza were relieved to hear that high-school graduation results in both of the occupied territories were to be made public at the same time – there had been a rumour that Gaza’s ministry of education would publish its own results a day early. That shows the anxiety that has existed since June 2007 when Palestinian self-rule became dual – with one administration run by Fatah in Ramallah in the West Bank, and another by Hamas in Gaza.

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Time running out on Israel-Palestinian Deal : Livni
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Mark Lavie - December 31, 1969 - 8:00pm

Israeli Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni warned Sunday that time is running out for a peace agreement with the Palestinians, with extremists gaining strength as negotiations stumble. In her first foreign policy speech since her appointment to form a new government, Livni said Israel must press ahead with peace talks because 'doing nothing has its own price.'

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Zeev Sternhell, an Israeli academic who was the target of a recent pipe bomb attack, tells the Daily Telegraph that Israel is threatened as much by Jewish terrorism as Palestinian militancy (1). Activists from Rabbis for Human Rights, who were attempting to protect Palestininans during the olive harvest in the West Bank, clash with Jewish settlers (2) (4). Breaking the Silence, an Israeli organization, attempts to expose the misconduct of Israeli occupation soldiers in the Palestinian territories (3).

October 3rd

Ehud Olmert’s Parting Words Dared To Offer Painful Truth
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
(Editorial) October 1, 2008 - 8:00pm

It is a rule of thumb in democracies that lame duck leaders should steer clear of bold new initiatives and sharp turns of policy. They’re supposed to sit tight until their elected successors can settle in and take the wheel. A decent respect for the opinions of the electorate demands that the voters’ decisions be honored, including the decision to repudiate an incumbent. Ehud Olmert, Israel’s outgoing prime minister, broke that rule September 29. And rightly so.

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Olmert’s belated wisdom
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by B. Michael - October 2, 2008 - 8:00pm

Even though Prime Minister Olmert had been ridiculed on more than one occasion for his delayed grasp of reality, it is very difficult not to feel great anger in the wake of his Rosh Hashana interview with Yedioth Ahronoth.

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Settler leader charged with assaulting police officers
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Raanan Ben-Zur - October 2, 2008 - 8:00pm

Daniela Weiss, the former head of the northern West Bank settlement of Kedumim, was charged Friday with assaulting a police officer, obstruction of justice and obstructing police actions. The charges, filed with the Kfar Saba Magistrate's Court, also named a second defendant, Kedumim resident Shoshana Shilo. The two were indicted for a clash they had with police officers on Thursday. According to the indictment, three policemen dispatched to a Palestinian olive grove which was set on fire near Kedumim, spotted three suspects fleeing the scene in a vehicle.

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