Some Fear a Soccer Team’s Racist Fans Hold a Mirror Up to Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Jodi Rudoren - January 30, 2013 - 1:00am The shouting match began long before kickoff, and many of the slogans had little to do with soccer. “The Temple Mount is in our hands,” chanted the notoriously aggressive fans of the home team, Beitar Jerusalem. |
Hamas denies accepting two-state solution
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency January 31, 2013 - 1:00am Hamas on Wednesday said it does not accept the two-state solution, following reports the party had changed its position to accept the state of Israel. The Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq reported Wednesday that Hamas politburo chief Khalid Mashaal asked Jordan's King Abdullah to inform US President Barack Obama that Hamas accepted the two-state solution. Hamas said in a statement that the report was baseless and that Mashaal did not address the two-state solution in his meeting with the Jordanian king in Amman on Monday. |
UN inquiry calls for sanctions against Israel over West Bank settlements
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Barak Ravid - January 31, 2013 - 1:00am A UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission on Thursday released its harshest report over Israeli policy in the West Bank since 1967, urging governments and private corporations across the world to consider economic and political sanctions against Israel over its construction in the settlements. This is the first time such a call has been made from within the United Nations. |
Time for the U.S. to disturb Israel's comfort zone
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Daniel Levy - (Opinion) January 30, 2013 - 1:00am One way of interpreting last week’s election is that Israel just put up a big “Do Not Disturb” sign: We are rejigging domestic burden sharing until further notice. That, though, is of little interest to the outside world as long as Israel remains in the business of illegal occupation and pursues regional ambitions that impact developments in Iran and also Syria, Egypt and beyond. |
The Peace Process After the Election
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Affairs by Shlomo Avineri - (Opinion) January 25, 2013 - 1:00am Despite losing about a quarter of its seats in Tuesday's election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu will remain the largest faction in the next Knesset. And although he is weakened, Netanyahu will almost certainly retain the premiership. Nevertheless, in the days ahead, he will struggle to build a governing coalition -- the meteoric rise of Yesh Atid, the party led by the populist anchorman-turned-politician Yair Lapid, left the Knesset almost equally divided between a right-wing and a center-left bloc. |
Rupert Murdoch links sympathy for Palestinians to anti-Semitism. The truth is more complex
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent by Matthew Norman - (Opinion) January 29, 2013 - 1:00am In a futile bid to preempt the allegation that automatically follows an article of this nature, I begin with a clarification. It is lifted from the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where a man in a cinema queue berates Larry David as “a self-hating Jew” for whistling an aria from Wagner. I certainly do hate myself, is Larry’s reply, but it has absolutely nothing to do with being a Jew. |
Netanyahu Will Not Make Peace With the Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg - (Opinion) January 29, 2013 - 1:00am We here at the Goldblog glass-enclosed nerve center are getting a lot of heat from our right about our assertion that not much has changed on the Israeli political landscape, especially in relation to issues concerning the Palestinians. |
Israel's New Kingmaker
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by Neri Zilber - (Opinion) January 29, 2013 - 1:00am Though one of Israel's best known public figures, Yair Lapid, the surprise star of the Jan. 22 election, is a mystery abroad. He now finds himself in the unexpected position of kingmaker, free to dictate terms to a badly weakened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
The Israel Debate In South Africa
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast by Peter Beinart - (Opinion) January 29, 2013 - 1:00am South Africa is America on steroids. It’s even more sports-obsessed. It’s even more violent. Its state-sponsored racism was even more brutal. Its racial progress has been even more jaw-dropping. Its gulf between rich and poor is even more awful. South Africa’s debate over Israel is more extreme too. The right is further right; the left is further left. And the big reason is apartheid, which haunts South Africa’s Israel conversation at every turn. |