Israel to permit entry to Arab investors for PIC ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency May 26, 2010 - 12:00am Israel will permit an exceptional 815 Middle East businessmen and women to enter the West Bank for Bethlehem's second Palestine Investment Conference (PIC) in June, officials announced on Tuesday. Executive director of PIC Ja’far Hdeib called news of the permits, communicated by Israel's Civil Administration late Monday night, the first signs of success for the conference, titled Investing in Palestine: Empowering Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. » Read more

UN peace envoy: 2-state solution urgent ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency May 26, 2010 - 12:00am UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry spoke Tuesday of the urgency of achieving the two state solution at a UN International Meeting in Turkey. » Read more

Gaza: 15 injured in Israeli airstrikes ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency May 26, 2010 - 12:00am Fifteen Palestinians were injured on Wednesday morning as Israeli F16 warplanes bombarded a training base belonging to Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical sources confirmed that some of the victims sustained critical wounds, with media coordinator for Gaza medical services Adham Abu Selmiyya saying injured were evacuated to hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip. He explained that several houses close to the training base sustained material damage. » Read more

What Do They Want from the Palestinians? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'ariv by Yariv Oppenheimer - May 26, 2010 - 12:00am Those Palestinians, what ingrates. Instead of being happy that the Israeli economy has learned to exploit the lands of Judea and Samaria and to invest inordinate sums of money to build factories and industrial zones in the territories, the Palestinian Authority announces a boycott and a ban on purchasing Israeli goods that are manufactured in the settlements. We could have expected better from the Palestinians. » Read more

PA's Abbas slams Iran ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Ali Waked - May 26, 2010 - 12:00am Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas harshly slammed the Iranian regime Tuesday for interfering in Palestinian affairs. In an interview with Egyptian television, Abbas said that Hamas was refusing to achieve intra-Palestinian reconciliation because of an Iranian veto. "We, the Palestinian people, are like a hijacked airplane," he said. "The decision-making power is not in our hands, but rather, in the hands of the Iranians. For that reason, the Palestinian people's unity, just like the plane, is also hijacked." » Read more

Effective resistance to illegal occupation ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Ghassan Khatib - May 26, 2010 - 12:00am The Palestinian campaign to boycott settlement products is enjoying exceptionally high levels of enthusiasm and support from all sectors of Palestinian society. It is also garnering sympathy and understanding from a wide range of members of the international community. » Read more