January 22nd

Palestinians see no hope for peace in Israeli polls ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Noah Browning - January 22, 2013 - 1:00am    Palestinians evinced weary indifference on Tuesday as Israelis voted in an election set to produce a hardline government keener to expand Jewish settlements on occupied land than seek peace. » Read more

Arab League official urges Arab Israelis to vote ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press January 22, 2013 - 1:00am     » Read more

Rightist Israeli Candidate’s Remarks Cause Stir ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner - January 22, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

Israel Votes in Election Likely to Retain Netanyahu ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner - January 22, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

January 18th

The Goldberg Variations ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) January 18, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

Embarrassment at Israeli President Shimon Peres's House ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Shlomi Eldar - (Opinion) January 18, 2013 - 1:00am   It was supposed to be a routine ceremony, just another one of those events that appear on the official calendar of the President’s House. People give speeches and applaud, someone receives a trophy or certificate, and the guests share in the excitement of participating in some official event or other. Then everyone goes back home to get on with their day-to-day business. » Read more

EU Trade Sustains Israeli Settlements in West Bank ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Dalia Hatuqa - (Opinion) January 18, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

Is Obama getting tougher on Israeli prime minister? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News by Hassan Barari - (Opinion) January 18, 2013 - 1:00am In closed-door briefings, President Barack Obama leveled tough criticisms at the Israeli leadership. “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are,” he told his associates. President Obama warned that the policies adopted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had only complicated Israel’s status within the international community. » Read more

From whence the defense stink comes ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Yossi Sarid - (Opinion) January 18, 2013 - 1:00am   Yaakov Sharett this week reminded us of some things we had forgotten. Writing to Haaretz, he quoted directly from the documentation in the diary kept by his father Moshe Sharett, Israel’s second prime minister. “Sharett: ‘In the army there is no truth.’’’ » Read more

Whatever happens after Tuesday's elections, American Jews won’t abandon Israel ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Dov Waxman - (Opinion) January 18, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more