Netanyahu Will Comply With US Demands ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Aluf Benn - (Analysis) June 4, 2009 - 12:00am Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will back down. Another week, another month, and he will give into American pressure and will be forced to accept the two-state solution and also agree to some sort of concessions on settlements. So far there has been no real negotiation between Israel and the Obama administration, just an exchange of declarations. There are no personal links between the Prime Minister's Bureau and the White House. Only after Thursday, following the "conciliatory address" of U.S. President Barack Obama to the Arab and Muslim world in Cairo, will the real discussion begin. » Read more

Four die in Palestinian clash in West Bank ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC World News June 4, 2009 - 12:00am hree Hamas militants and a member of the Palestinian Authority security forces died in the clashes, a Palestinian official has said. The clashes took place in the the northern West Bank town of Qalqilya. It comes days after six people died in a gun battle in the town between Hamas fighters and police. A Hamas spokesman in Gaza Strip said the operations against Hamas members had "killed all chances" for the success of the talks in Egypt aimed at reconciling Hamas and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority. » Read more

Obama in quest for peace ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press by Rushdi Abu Alouf - June 4, 2009 - 12:00am US President Barack Obama discussed the quest for Middle East peace and Iran’s disputed nuclear ambitions in Cairo with the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak today in this ancient seat of Islamic learning and culture before delivering a dose of “truth-telling” about the often fraught relations between Americans and Muslims. » Read more

US policy needs to change ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Gulf News by George S. Hishmeh - (Opinion) June 3, 2009 - 12:00am There are great expectations that a new, friendlier era of US policy towards Arab and Muslim countries will be ushered in by Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East. Not only will he make an important visit to Saudi Arabia, but also he is due to give a major address in Egypt, underlining his administration's praiseworthy attempt to engage the Arab and Muslim world to a degree unmatched by his predecessors. » Read more

Obama: Step by Step with the Palestinians ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Asharq Alawsat by Ghassan Al-Imam - (Opinion) June 3, 2009 - 12:00am Europe sees in Obama another John Kennedy, and the United States sees in him Abraham Lincoln, who reconciled the country with itself after a bitter civil war, and then compares him to Franklin Roosevelt, the author of the "New Deal" who got the country out of its economic crisis in the thirties. » Read more