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Enduring Failures of Israel's 'Decision Makers'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward by J.J. Goldberg - (Opinion) January 10, 2013 - 1:00am One of Israel’s worst-kept military secrets is the simmering tension between the country’s top security professionals and their civilian bosses, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The headlines surface regularly and tend to look the same, so it’s easy to miss the big picture. |
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An Israeli Ballot With No Good Options
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward by Hillel Halkin - (Opinion) January 10, 2013 - 1:00am Israel doesn’t need to hold elections. It only needs to ask for whom I’d vote, because I’ve never voted for anyone but winners. I was for Golda in 1974, for Begin in 1977, for Rabin in 1992, for Netanyahu in ’96, for Barak in ’98, for the Sharon of the Likud in 2000 and the Sharon of Kadima in 2005, for Ehud Olmert in 2006, for Netanyahu again in 2009. You can’t be more infallible than that. |
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A Palestinian-Jordanian confederation
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Uri Savir - (Opinion) January 10, 2013 - 1:00am Prominent Israeli Knesset candidates, many of them most probably part of the next coalition, are in these days of vigorous campaigning attempting to highjack us into their fata morganas (mirages) regarding the future of the West Bank; be it Naftali Bennett with his ridiculous proposal to annex 60 percent of the West Bank to Israel; or |
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Israeli extremists' victory
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Randa Haidar - (Opinion) January 10, 2013 - 1:00am Winds of rightist political extremism are blowing through the election campaign in Israel these days. Some two weeks before the elections, it appears that the Israeli arena is becoming more extreme and divided. |
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Bibi, ask not what you can do for you
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz (Opinion) January 10, 2013 - 1:00am In another country, in a place that is normal, the in-depth interview with former Shin Bet security service director Yuval Diskin, published in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper last weekend, would have cost a sitting prime minister the election. |
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Politics and the English language: What we can learn from Naftali Bennett’s international interviews
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Anshel Pfeffer - (Opinion) January 10, 2013 - 1:00am Each of the senior politicians called up to the stage at Tuesday's foreign policy debate conducted by the Israel Project at the Hebrew University, scurried up to the podium as their name was called. Only Habayit Hayehudi leader, Naftali Bennett, paused for a moment, turned around, and waved to the audience before stepping up. "It was a short gesture, but there was something about it that distinguished him," a friend who was there told me. |
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Netanyahu government is Israel's most anti-Zionist ever, says Amoz Oz
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Yossi Verter - (Opinion) January 11, 2013 - 1:00am The writer and Israel Prize laureate Amoz Oz harshly attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Labor chairwoman MK Shelly Yacimovich. |
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EU should re-think its border assistance role
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency by Mahmoud Abu Rahma - (Opinion) January 9, 2013 - 1:00am The European Union must abandon the idea of redeploying its border monitoring mission on Gaza's border with Egypt, raised again by EU officials last month. |
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Financial Crisis in the West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times (Editorial) January 10, 2013 - 1:00am |
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Palestinians protest use of 'skunk' liquid
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Irish Times by Mark Weiss - January 11, 2013 - 1:00am Palestinian activists claim the use by the Israeli security forces of a foul-smelling liquid, dubbed “the skunk”, against protesters and, in some instances, private homes, may be putting lives at risk. |