Hamas: PA Detained 61 Members in April ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency May 4, 2012 - 12:00am GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas on Thursday accused the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority of detaining 61 party members in the West Bank in April. » Read more

In Ramallah, Clinton Tech Advisor Says US Backs Open Internet ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency May 3, 2012 - 12:00am RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top technology adviser told a group of Palestinian bloggers Wednesday that efforts to censor the Internet would ultimately backfire.  » Read more

Israel's deep-sea dominance ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Guy Bechor - (Opinion) May 4, 2012 - 12:00am Quietly, underwater, Israel is turning into a maritime power like the United States and Russia, with an armada of advanced submarines. Germany recently agreed to provide Israel with a sixth Dolphin submarine; the Jewish state already has three. Two more will be arriving this and next year, and then the sixth one will come. » Read more

Israel Takes Command of 4th Dolphin Class Sub ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua May 3, 2012 - 12:00am   JERUSALEM, May 3 (Xinhua) -- With a ceremonial smashing of a champagne bottle against the hull, Israel on Thursday took the helm of its fourth submarine at a German shipyard. » Read more

Rabin Killer’s Brother Released From Israel Prison ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Tia Goldenberg - May 4, 2012 - 12:00am JERUSALEM — The unrepentant brother of the man who killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was released from prison Friday after serving 16½ years for complicity in a murder that stunned Israel and according to some destroyed an opportunity for peace. » Read more

By winning the elections, Netanyahu can enact his vision – doing nothing ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Yoel Marcus - (Opinion) May 4, 2012 - 12:00am The big riddle is what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was thinking when he decided to move up the elections. Why not elections at the scheduled time? After all, another year and a half in a safe government is nothing to sneeze at. In addition, he is running the country with a solid majority of 65 seats. Nobody can bring him down. If he wanted, he could even bring Kadima under Shaul Mofaz into the coalition. Bibi Netanyahu is admired by a large part of the public, unlike during his first term when he slipped on every banana peel. » Read more

Israel Should Reduce Use of Administrative Detentions for Palestinians, Top Official Says ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Barak Ravid - (Analysis) May 3, 2012 - 12:00am   Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch indicated that Israel should reduce its use of administrative detention against Palestinian suspects, a senior official said on Thursday, amid an ongoing wave of hunger strikes among Palestinian detainees. » Read more

Israel Prison Service: Palestinian Hunger-Strike Must “Stand Up” to Visit Lawyer ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua May 4, 2012 - 12:00am   JERUSALEM, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Various NGO's protest against treatment of Palestinian hunger-strikers in Israeli prisons, where they cannot receive legal counseling from lawyers unless they can stand up and ask for it, despite that some of the protesters have been hunger-striking for two months. » Read more

Is the Palestinian Authority really a 'fig leaf' for Israeli occupation? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor by Ben Lynfield - (Analysis) May 3, 2012 - 12:00am Seated at her desk beneath pictures of two smiling leaders, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the late founding father Yasser Arafat, principal Shadia Shaheen asserts that her high school plays a part in the building of a future Palestinian state. » Read more

Palestinian Hunger Strikers Appeal to Israeli Court ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Jihan Abdalla - May 3, 2012 - 12:00am   JERUSALEM, May 3 (Reuters) - Facing Israel's highest court in their wheelchairs, two Palestinian prisoners on the 66th day of their hunger strike appealed on Thursday for their release from detention without trial. » Read more