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Berlusconi receives Netanyahu, rejects unilateral solutions in Middle East peace process
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post June 12, 2011 - 12:00am ROME — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Monday that Middle East peace can only be reached through negotiations, keeping to Italy’s position rejecting any unilateral actions such as recognition of a Palestinian state by the U.N. General Assembly. Berlusconi spoke at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in Italy to rally opposition to Palestinian plans to have the General Assembly recognize a Palestinian state in September. |
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Alleged 'spy' in Egypt is US citizen, IDF paratrooper
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Yaakov Katz - June 13, 2011 - 12:00am Ilan Grapel, the alleged Mossad agent arrested on Sunday in Egypt, is an American citizen who served in the IDF Paratrooper’s Brigade during the Second Lebanon War and interned last summer at the Israeli Supreme Court. Grapel, originally from New York, moved to Israel after graduating from John Hopkins University in the US and enlisted in the IDF. |
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Hamas Rejects Fatah’s Choice for Prime Minister
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press June 12, 2011 - 12:00am GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Hamas militant group on Sunday rejected the rival Fatah movement's nominee for prime minister, complicating plans to unify the dueling governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and jeopardizing international aid for the Palestinians. |
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A Year After Mavi Marmara, Life in Gaza Eases
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line by Omar Ghraieb, David Rosenberg - June 12, 2011 - 12:00am If you want to get a sense of how much has changed during the past year in the lives of ordinary people living the Gaza Strip, look no further than chicken. |
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Hamas Rejects Fatah’s Choice for Prime Minister
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press June 12, 2011 - 12:00am GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Hamas militant group on Sunday rejected the rival Fatah movement's nominee for prime minister, complicating plans to unify the dueling governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and jeopardizing international aid for the Palestinians. |
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Did Kissinger Urge Egypt to Attack Israel?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast by R.M. Schneiderman - (Book Review) June 9, 2011 - 12:00am Whether it’s the expansion of settlements or the status of Jerusalem, the past has always held a central role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. So as Palestinian protests continued to roil the Jewish state on Sunday, a new book by a former CIA agent in Amman and a trusted adviser to the Jordanian king offers some eye-opening claims about the history of the conflict. |
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I'm Either an Illegal Citizen of One State, or an Inferior Citizen in Another
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Salem News by Jalal Abukhater - (Opinion) June 10, 2011 - 12:00am (RAMALLAH) - I am considered under the Israeli law to be an illegal citizen of the Palestinian West Bank and I am supposed to avoid it as an area of danger while Jewish settlers are allowed to come from all over the world and settle legally (under Israeli law) in the Palestinian West Bank. |
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The Language Bibi and Bam Used
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Forward by Philologos - (Opinion) June 8, 2011 - 12:00am “On the Same Page?” asked a front-page caption of the June 3 edition of the Forward, beneath which were parallel excerpts from President Barack Obama’s May 19 speech on U.S. policy in the Middle East and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s May 24 Congressional address. The second pair of matching quotes had the U.S. |
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Low-profile, influential Hamas founder Shama dies
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Ibrahim Barzak - June 10, 2011 - 12:00am A founder of Hamas in the Gaza Strip died Friday of a stroke after decades as an influential yet little-known figure at the helm of the Palestinian militant organization. He was 76. Muhammad Hassan Shama, revered by Hamas loyalists but nearly anonymous outside Gaza, was one of the eight founders of the Islamist group in the 1980s. After his death, Hamas publicly announced Friday for the first time that Shama had been the leader of the secretive Shura Council, its top governing body. |