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Israel's strategy to seize Jerusalem on display for all to see
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National by Joseph Dana - (Opinion) April 25, 2012 - 12:00am By now, news of Palestinian being evicted from their homes in East Jerusalem is routine. Last week, two more Palestinian families were thrown into the street to make way for Jewish settlers in the neighbourhood of Beit Hanina. The mechanism of land confiscation in East Jerusalem and the West Bank has become a near science for Israeli authorities, ensuring that the exact borders of Israel remain unclear and constantly shifting. |
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‘One state’ means no state
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Zalman Shoval - (Opinion) April 23, 2012 - 12:00am The next round of Israeli-Palestinian talks is in the offing, but it will probably turn out to be as futile as the last one. At least as long as the Palestinian leadership persists in its unrealistic preconditions, i.e. Israel to accept a priori the 1967 armistice line as the border of the proposed Palestinian state, and stopping all construction beyond that line, including in Jerusalem. |
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Bill seeking to bypass Supreme Court aims to end democracy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Sefi Rachlevsky - (Opinion) April 24, 2012 - 12:00am If you spent time as a child in a crowded chicken coop, you will have had difficulty forgetting the scene. When one of the hens is injured, her "sister" hens immediately begin forming a cloud overhead. The entire coop is engulfed in a whirlwind of dust. Within half a minute, all that is left of the injured hen is the dust of its bones. A few seconds later, it is business as usual in the coop. (In nature, where chickens are not locked up, there are no scenes like that.) |
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The sunshine over the horizon
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) April 23, 2012 - 12:00am The unilateral Egyptian decision to cancel the gas deal with Israel is another sad benchmark in the deterioration of relations between Israel and its neighbors. This cancelation is a clear violation of the agreement between the two countries, which beyond its economic importance to both sides is a blow to status of the peace between Israel and Egypt. |
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Israel must keep gas dispute with Egypt apolitical
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz (Editorial) April 24, 2012 - 12:00am The suspension (or cancellation) of Egypt's natural gas agreement with Israel has prompted extensive fear about bilateral relations, to the point that some see it as the first step toward scrapping the Camp David Accords. |
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AP Interview: Palestinian doubts 2-state solution
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Dan Perry - (Analysis) April 23, 2012 - 12:00am ABU DIS, West Bank — With gloom deepening over prospects for peace, a leading Palestinian is suggesting they might drop the "two-state solution" that has underpinned two decades of negotiations, aiming for Israel and a Palestinian state next to each other. Instead, Palestinians might seek a multi-ethnic state covering all of historic Palestine — including today's Israel, said former Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia in an interview at his office in this West Bank town. |
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Peace Without Partners
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Ami Ayalon, Orni Petruschka, Gilead Sher - (Opinion) April 23, 2012 - 12:00am FOR three years, attempts at negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian leadership have failed because of a lack of trust. It now seems highly unlikely that the two sides will return to negotiations — but that does not mean the status quo must be frozen in place. Israel doesn’t need to wait for a final-status deal with the Palestinians. What it needs is a radically new unilateral approach: It should set the conditions for a territorial compromise based on the principle of two states for two peoples, which is essential for Israel’s future as both a Jewish and a democratic state. |
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CBS's 'Strategic Terror Attack'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward by Nathan Guttman - (Blog) April 23, 2012 - 12:00am A controversial report aired by CBS News has pitted Israel’s top envoy to the United States against the network’s flagship news show and now has the Jewish community up in arms. |
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Hamas Still Not Ready for Prime Time
In Print by Hussein Ibish - The Daily Beast (Opinion) - April 23, 2012 - 12:00am In a wide-ranging interview with the Jewish Daily Forward, Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook again demonstrated the difficult position in which his organization finds itself. Due to the Arab uprisings, the region’s strategic landscape is now primarily defined by sectarian allegiances. As a result, Hamas's external leadership is trying to reintegrate the organization into the mainstream Sunni Arab fold, cultivating closer ties with states like Qatar, Jordan and Egypt, while distancing itself from Iran and abandoning Syria altogether. |
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Abbas sacks supervisor of official Palestinian media
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua April 24, 2012 - 12:00am RAMALLAH, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sacked Yasser Abed Rabbo, media supervisor of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) due to their disagreements, an Palestinian source said on Tuesday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that sacking Abed Rabbo as a media supervisor "doesn't mean that he was sacked as the Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee." |