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Jordan’s King Abdullah II pays rare visit to West Bank, in nod to Palestinian president
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press November 21, 2011 - 1:00am RAMALLAH, West Bank — Jordan’s King Abdullah II paid a rare visit to the West Bank on Monday to show support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as the two moderate leaders try to engage with previously shunned Islamists now on the rise in the region. |
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In the West Bank, a contested heritage
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Joel Greenberg - November 20, 2011 - 1:00am JERUSALEM — At a museum just off the desert road from Jerusalem to Jericho in the West Bank, the artifacts of a contested heritage are on display. Colorful mosaic floors from Byzantine-era churches and synagogues, inscriptions, Roman capitals and stone burial boxes — all dug up by Israeli archaeologists in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — are shown at the site, developed by Israel’s West Bank military administration with the Israeli antiquities authority. |
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'Price Tag' Attacks Pose Test for Israel
In Print by Ziad Asali - The Jewish Daily Forward (Opinion) - November 21, 2011 - 1:00am Israeli society has been confronted recently by a troubling new trend: vigilante attacks by some settlers and their supporters against Palestinians in the occupied territories, Arab citizens of Israel and, increasingly, Israeli peace groups. These began as the settlers’ own form of retaliation — exacting a “price” for any Palestinian violence — but have devolved into a campaign of terror. Marauding bands of armed settlers have uprooted olive trees, burned mosques and schools, shot at cars, run over children. |
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The mother of all gambles
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Ahram by Abdel-Moneim Said - (Opinion) November 18, 2011 - 1:00am It is reported that in his attempt to pitch to the Palestinian leadership the Oslo Accords, which he played a key role in negotiating, Mahmoud Abbas -- Abu Mazen -- described them as a gamble. Before long it was palpable that he did not master the rules of the game that he had dragged the Palestinians into. It seems that Abu Mazen, like any skill-less gambler, was placing his hopes solely on being dealt a royal flush. |
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Sen. George Mitchell on Mid-East Peace Process
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Free Press by Christine Parrish - (Opinion) November 17, 2011 - 1:00am Senator George Mitchell told an overflow crowd at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast on Tuesday morning that the Middle East peace process, which he spent two and a half years shepherding as the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, is not dead and that it is crucial to continue the effort towards a two-state solution. |
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The Palestinians' Most Potent Weapon
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National Interest by Paul Pillar - (Blog) November 17, 2011 - 1:00am Nine years ago an article by Gal Luft titled “The Palestinian H-Bomb: Terrorism's Winning Strategy” addressed suicide bombing against Israeli citizens as a fearsome and inexorable force. The tactic instead proved to be a self-destructive fizzle. It earned enemies rather than friends, drove Israelis deeper into their defensive crouch, was ultimately controlled by Israel through measures such as a meandering defensive barrier, and did absolutely nothing to bring Palestinians closer to self-determination and their own state. |
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The Eviction of One Palestinian Family Might Cause the Next Political Crisis Over East Jerusalem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Huffington Post by Hagit Ofran - (Opinion) November 17, 2011 - 1:00am August 2nd, 2009. The Ghawi and Hannun families of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem are waking to the sounds of police and trucks and movers. In a few hours, their houses will have become the home to settler families, and they will be kicked out to the street. |
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Who Will Write Jerusalem's Story?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Huffington Post by Ronit Avni - (Opinion) November 18, 2011 - 1:00am While Jerusalem has always received its fair share of attention at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, too often it is treated as an idealized symbol rather than a real place. In debates surrounding the future of the city, religious proclamations and lines on maps overshadow the needs and interests of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis who live, work and raise their families in the city. |
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Palestinian insistence is key
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times by Ahmad Majdoubeh - (Opinion) November 18, 2011 - 1:00am Israel can be expected to be hostile to the Palestinian UN bid for statehood. The present Israeli government is not only not serious about peace, deliberately seeks to subvert all peace efforts and abort any attempts at arriving at Palestinian statehood, be it through negotiations or through the UN Security Council. |