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Why is Obama handcuffed?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times by George S. Hishmeh - (Opinion) December 6, 2012 - 1:00am A front-page headline in The New York Times last Monday startled me for a few seconds. It read: “Obama brings end to giving in”, which for a few seconds I thought was related to how US President Barak Obama was on the verge of adopting a more even-handed stance towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, or more correctly twisting the arm of Israel. |
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Hamas Leader Makes First Visit to Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Steven Erlanger - December 7, 2012 - 1:00am RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Khaled Meshal, whom the Israelis tried to assassinate in Jordan in 1997, arrived for his first visit to the&n |
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Could Plan for E1 Be Just a Bluff?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward by Nathan Jeffay - (Opinion) December 7, 2012 - 1:00am For Israelis living at the epicenter of the settlement-building storm, there’s widespread suspicion that Bibi is bluffing. |
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Palestinian Artist Chips Away at the Wall
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line by Diana Atallah - (Opinion) December 6, 2012 - 1:00am In a small gallery in an ancient house in the village of Qalandiya, between Ramallah and Jerusalem, Khaled Jarrar stands alongside his latest art project placed on a podium: a small soccer ball made of cement. But not just any cement – this cement had been cut out of the barrier built by Israel separating the West Bank from Israel. |
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What if Gaza and Ramallah get their act together?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Ilan Baruch - (Opinion) December 7, 2012 - 1:00am An examination of national liberation struggles pursued since the end of World War II reveals a mixed record of success by different rebel leaderships in their ability to balance prudently their political and their military (or, if one prefers, terror ) wings, in their fight for political independence. This applies to the organizations that fought for the creation of the Jewish state - Israel. |
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The E-1 plan: recycled and oppressive
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Menachem Klein - (Opinion) December 7, 2012 - 1:00am Ehud Barak was wrong. He minimized the cabinet decision on massive construction in Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim as little more than cold leftovers reheated by Master Chef Bibi. On the eve of the national election, he said, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to dress up recycled scraps as a tasty feast for his Likud voters. Don't take him seriously, the defense minister told the Americans. |
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Obama and Israel are walking away from two-state solution with Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor by Sandy Tolan - (Opinion) December 6, 2012 - 1:00am The Obama administration’s refusal to support the success |
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Why we lost Pacific Islands
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency (Opinion) December 6, 2012 - 1:00am As Israel reflects on losing Europe in Thursday's vote to upgrade Palestine's UN status, mystery shrouds the positions of four Pacific island nations that broke with international consensus and sided with Tel Aviv. |
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We're going to pay
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Shimon Shiffer - (Opinion) December 6, 2012 - 1:00am In the past, prime ministers would react with scorn and contempt to the UN and European resolutions against Israel. "Um-Shmum," David Ben-Gurion said angrily (um is the Hebrew acronymic pronunciation for 'UN', and the 'shm'-prefix signifies contempt or irony). "Those anti-Semites," Yitzhak Rabin said of the Europeans. And Menachem Begin said after the Sabra and Shatila massacre: "What does the world want from us? |