Israel says eight gunmen killed in Sinai attack
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters August 6, 2012 - 12:00am Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday eight gunmen from a global jihadist group were killed in their attempt to breach the Israeli border with Egypt's Sinai on Sunday. Barak told a parliamentary committee that the gunmen had also killed 13 to 15 Egyptian troops. He added that Israel had been in touch with the Egyptian authorities "to see if we could provide any help". |
Gunmen Kill 15 and Steal Vehicle in Attack on Egypt Base
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Mayy El Sheikh, Kareem Fahim - August 5, 2012 - 12:00am Masked gunmen opened fire on an Egyptian Army checkpoint in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, killing 15 soldiers who were preparing to break their Ramadan fast. The gunmen then seized at least one armored vehicle and headed toward Israel, apparently in an attempt to storm the border, witnesses and officials said. |
Israel Bars Foreign Envoys From West Bank Meeting
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Jodi Rudoren - August 5, 2012 - 12:00am Israel on Sunday barred the delegations of five countries from attending a diplomatic conference in Ramallah, in the West Bank, upending plans by the Palestinian president to announce his intention to renew the Palestinians’ bid this September for enhanced status in the United Nations. |
Dani Dayan's War: Can Israeli Settlers Control Both the West Bank and Themselves?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Atlantic by Zvika Krieger - (Opinion) August 3, 2012 - 12:00am Dani Dayan has decided to come "out of the closet," he tells me as we sit in a coffee shop looking out onto the Judean hills earlier this summer. The head of the Yesha Council, which represents the approximately 300,000 Israelis who live in the West Bank, was not referring to his strident opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state; he's been an out-and-proud critic of the two-state solution for years, prominently showcased in an inflammatory op-ed last week. When we met in Jerusalem, he was actually in the process of coming out as a moderate. |
Exploiting Jews from Arab Countries
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast by Lara Friedman - (Opinion) August 2, 2012 - 12:00am Last month saw an assault in Congress on Palestinian refugees—an effort to use legislation to re-define the Palestinian refugee issue out of existence. This week the other shoe dropped, when a bipartisan group of members of Congress introduced a new bill embracing the cause of “Jewish refugees from Arab countries” in a way that Congress has never replicated on the Palestinian side (for more info, see this list of all bills/resolutions dealing with Palestinian and/or Jewish refugees since 1989). |
Hip-hopping to tolerance in the Promised Land
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star by Danna Harman - (Opinion) August 3, 2012 - 12:00am It’s a sweltering day in Jerusalem. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, founder of a major record label and clothing company, sits fanning himself with a magazine. Next to him is Orthodox rabbi Marc Schneier, vice president of the World Jewish Congress. |
Zionists frighten US presidency
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News by Yousef Al Kuwailet - (Opinion) August 3, 2012 - 12:00am American Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seems more to be a cowboy than a person who can be considered to be in a responsible position as president of a great nation. He speaks in street slang, not the formal language of a diplomat. His remarks that questioned London's preparation for the Olympics sparked fury even among those with a cool temper (“A few things that were disconcerting” about London’s Olympics preparations). Both British officials and the media reacted strongly against Romney’s remarks. |
The Tent People
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Hayat by Zuheir Kseibati - (Opinion) August 2, 2012 - 12:00am The Palestinians no longer have the privilege of “monopolizing” tents as part of the history of their setbacks and the features of their identity. The people of the region now have a new landmark that is unifying them perhaps more than the Arab League ever did: the tents of the displaced and the refugees. |
Mitt or ‘mittout’ Romney
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Hirsh Goodman - (Opinion) August 3, 2012 - 12:00am Mitt Romney comes to Israel for a few hours, speaks platitudes to a largely imported crowd against the backdrop of Jerusalem, mumbles something about Iran and collects a million bucks, rushes for a series of lighting photo-ops with appropriate Israelis and off again, this time to Poland. He did not come here to learn the issues, understand the intricacies of the evolving Middle East or even receive an in-depth expert briefing on Iran. Grin, flash, platitude, applause, photo, insult the Palestinians and away we go. |