Jewish, Palestinian American groups ‘swap’ summer interns ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Times of Israel by Ari Ben Goldberg - July 6, 2012 - 12:00am When Waleed Issa walked into the Americans for Peace Now (APN) Washington, DC office on the first day of his summer internship in June, the 25-year-old Palestinian from the Dheisheh refugee camp south of Bethlehem was startled by what he saw. “I never saw so much blue and white in my life,” he says. “Everywhere you look, there’s a Star of David and the colors of the Israeli flag. As a Palestinian, I thought to myself, ‘This is not good news. How am I going to work here for the next six weeks?’” » Read more

Arafatuous ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) July 5, 2012 - 12:00am In November 2004, a sad but very familiar scene played itself out: A sick, 75-year-old man who had been living in squalor for several years after an extremely difficult life -- including a near-death experience in the Libyan desert -- finally passed away. Doctors at the Percy hospital in France determined he died of natural causes: a stroke caused by an unidentified infection. As is so often the case, human life ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. » Read more