Occupation double-speak ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Michael Sfard - (Opinion) June 12, 2012 - 12:00am We are now marking the 45th anniversary of the largest national project in our young country's history: the suppression of millions of peoples' longing for independence and freedom. This project is bigger than the National Water Carrier, more expensive than the Lavi fighter jet, which never did take off, and more foolish than the idea of draining Lake Hula, which wound up exacting a tremendous ecological cost. We are all invested in it up to our necks -- financially, politically and, most important, morally. » Read more

Hamas informer in Israel on lecture tour ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Amy Teibel - June 14, 2012 - 12:00am The son of a Hamas founder who renounced his father's militant group to spy for Israel has returned to the Jewish state on a pro-Israel lecture tour, an Israeli official said Thursday. Mosab Yousef was invited by Druse Arab lawmaker Ayoob Kara, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. » Read more

Ex-Israeli soldier seeks Palestinian citizenship ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Dalia Nammari - June 14, 2012 - 12:00am In an odd twist to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian saga, a former Israeli soldier has embarked on a new fight: He wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. Andre Pshenichnikov, a 23-year-old Jewish immigrant from Tajikistan, was recently detained by Israeli police for residing illegally in the Deheishe Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. There he told police that he wants to break all ties with Israel, give up his Israeli citizenship and obtain a Palestinian one instead. » Read more

Gaza Five Years On: Hamas Settles In ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace by Nathan J. Brown - (Analysis) June 14, 2012 - 12:00am As political upheavals spread over much of the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, regimes throughout the region were shaken and a few fell. But in both the West Bank and Gaza, a soft authoritarianism that has provoked uprisings elsewhere has only been further entrenching itself. » Read more