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Settler group patrols West Bank for demolition targets
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency by Charlotte Alfred - May 10, 2012 - 12:00am BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A tiny village of Palestinian families in the southern West Bank has had an unwelcome visitor in recent months. “He comes with small weapons and his camera, sometimes with armed forces, sometimes with settlers,” Susiya resident Nasser Nawaja says. The armed visitor is Ovad Arad, the Judea and Samaria Director of Regavim, an Israeli non-governmental organization. |
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UN's Ban urges Israel to charge prisoners or free them
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency May 10, 2012 - 12:00am BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Israel to either charge or release Palestinian detainees "without delay." Ban expressed concern for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in protest over their detention without charge and stressed "the importance of averting any further deterioration in their condition," in a statement issued through his spokesman Martin Nesirky. |
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Palestinian leadership expects Egyptian efforts to resolve hunger strike
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua May 10, 2012 - 12:00am RAMALLAH, May 10 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian leadership expects that the Egyptian efforts will soon succeed in reaching a settlement between Israel and hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners, a Palestinian official said Thursday. "We have positive signs that the results of these efforts will be seen by Saturday," said Ziad Abu Ein of the Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Ministry. He refused to elaborate. |
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Model West Bank City Loses a Crime Fighter
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Jodi Rudoren - May 9, 2012 - 12:00am JENIN, West Bank — Relaxing in their rooftop salon one recent night, Amal Qadoura headed to fetch ice cream for herself and her husband when the shooting began. First, she recalled, two bullets were fired at one side of the glass-enclosed porch, followed by a barrage from a hilltop on the other side. |
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A Peace Legacy for Netanyahu’s Hard-Line Dad?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bloomberg by Jeffrey Goldberg - (Opinion) April 30, 2012 - 12:00am The historian Benzion Netanyahu, who died today at 102, was sometimes asked to explain the miracle of Jewish survival through millenniums of persecution. Netanyahu -- the father of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin -- would answer the question in a way his interlocutors did not at all expect. |
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A Few Good Lawyers
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from International Herald Tribune by Rajah Shehadeh - (Blog) April 27, 2012 - 12:00am BILIN, West Bank — Earlier this month, I finally watched “The Law in These Parts,” a documentary by the Israeli film director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, at the 7th International Conference for Popular Resistance. The film describes the legal system that Israel has applied in the Palestinian Occupied Territories since 1967, and it does so exclusively through interviews with members of the Israeli military legal corps who wrote and implemented the system. |
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Response to Rashid Khalidi
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast by Gil Troy - (Opinion) April 30, 2012 - 12:00am Professor Khalidi is anxious to bar me from the debate about the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem’s building site that adjoins an ancient Moslem graveyard by questioning my credentials. And I guess he is right. |
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Confession of an incorrigible optimist
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News by Uri Avnery - (Opinion) April 30, 2012 - 12:00am No ifs. No buts. No perhapses. Maybe it’s genetic. My father was an optimist. Even when, at the age of 45, he had to flee his native Germany to a primitive little country in the Middle East, his spirits remained high. Though he had to adapt to a new country, a hot climate, hard physical labor and grinding poverty, he was happy. At least he had saved his wife and four children, the youngest of whom was I. Now, on Israel’s 64th birthday (according to the Hebrew calendar), I am still an optimist. |
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Israel is no safe place for Christians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times by Kamel S. Abu Jaber - (Opinion) April 30, 2012 - 12:00am It has been a long time since I have written anything about Israel or the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict. I told myself I should distance myself a little and think in a cool, dispassionate manner about our Semitic cousins who obviously have made up their mind to play down their, perhaps in their mind, racial relationship with us Arabs. |