Washington Watch: Threatening Israeli democracy ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Douglas Bloomfield - (Opinion) July 21, 2011 - 12:00am If Bibi Netanyahu had been a young, white Jew growing up in Mississippi in the 1960s instead of the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he might take a different view of boycotts. He would understand that political protests strengthen democracy, and that laws restricting free speech and association weaken the fiber of a nation. » Read more

MK Danny Danon is the new McCarthy ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) July 21, 2011 - 12:00am A bit less of a Kahanist than National Union MK Michael Ben Ari, a bit less of a garbler than Likud MK Yariv Levin and a bit less pompous than Likud MK Ofir Akunis, Likud MK Danny Danon will go far. He's a member of the ruling party and is definitely going to show all those leftists and Arabs. He has already threatened them once: The party is over. Yesterday he acted once again to implement his threat. » Read more

IDF must fight its growing religious extremism ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz (Editorial) July 21, 2011 - 12:00am Maj. Gen. Avi Zamir, the outgoing head of the Israel Defense Forces' Personnel Directorate, is urging that the IDF's drift toward religious extremism be stopped. In a document he sent to the chief of staff and all the major generals, whose content was reported by Amos Harel in yesterday's Haaretz, Zamir called for a reorganization of secular-religious relations in the army. » Read more