Israeli police kill Palestinian in E. Jerusalem ATFP World Press Roundup Article from by Jeffrey Heller, Ali Sawafta, Dan Williams - October 3, 2010 - 12:00am JERUSALEM, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Israeli paramilitary border police killed a Palestinian on Sunday after he entered East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank without a permit. A police spokesman said the man, 37, was shot while trying to grab a border policeman's pistol. A Palestinian who said he witnessed the incident, which occurred before dawn, disputed the police account. » Read more

Israeli police kill Palestinian in E. Jerusalem ATFP World Press Roundup Article from by Jeffrey Heller, Ali Sawafta, Dan Williams - October 3, 2010 - 12:00am JERUSALEM, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Israeli paramilitary border police killed a Palestinian on Sunday after he entered East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank without a permit. A police spokesman said the man, 37, was shot while trying to grab a border policeman's pistol. A Palestinian who said he witnessed the incident, which occurred before dawn, disputed the police account. » Read more

Israeli Supreme Court rebukes Irish Nobel laureate ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Statesman by Aisha Mohammed - October 4, 2010 - 12:00am An Irish Nobel peace laureate called Israel an "apartheid" state during a deportation hearing before the country's Supreme Court Monday, prompting a rebuke from a justice who told her to keep her "propaganda" to herself. Israel has banned Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 66, from entering the country because of her attempt to breach the Gaza naval blockade aboard a vessel in June. » Read more

Arab Peace Initiative to hold urgent session ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency October 2, 2010 - 12:00am BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Arab Peace Initiative will hold an urgent meeting of Arab foreign ministers on Friday in Sirtre, Libya over direct negotiations before meeting for an extraordinary Arab League summit, the deputy Arab League chief said. Ahmad Bin Hali told reporters Saturday that President Mahmoud Abbas will address the committee and updated officials on US efforts to save talks from collapse in light of Israel's decision not to extend its settlement freeze in the West Bank. » Read more

Peace talks come and go, but a settlement grows ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Statesman by Matti Friedman - October 3, 2010 - 12:00am The American president was pushing hard for a Mideast peace agreement when six Jewish families arrived on this West Bank hilltop early one morning with cribs, refrigerators, Israeli flags and flatbed trucks carrying mobile homes. White House condemnation came quickly: "Settlements are an obstacle to peace and their continuation does not contribute to the development of a peace process which we have all been working toward." It was April 16, 1991. » Read more

Not on the same page ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times (Editorial) October 2, 2010 - 12:00am One can't help but wonder: What would former Israeli Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon or Yitzhak Rabin have done if their foreign ministers had delivered jaw-dropping speeches to the U.N. General Assembly contradicting their policies on peacemaking with the Palestinians, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's did this week? » Read more

Israel, Palestinians start to blame each other as talks look shaky ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua October 4, 2010 - 12:00am The latest round of the U.S.- sponsored direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians were stumbling as the two sides differed on the issue of whether or not Israel should extend its 10-month freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank after it ended last week. Analysts said that both Israel and the Palestinians are now trying to escape being blamed for delaying the peace talks, while reaffirming close relations with the Washington. BLAME GAME STARTS » Read more

Did Obama appeal to Netanyahu to extend the settlement freeze? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua October 2, 2010 - 12:00am With Israel's ten-month freeze on construction in Jewish settlements on the West Bank ending earlier this week, speculation is rife about what this will mean for the current round of negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians under the supervision of U.S. President Barack Obama. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to walk away from the talks if Israel does not extend the freeze. » Read more

In Israel, a highway that divides ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Edmund Sanders - January 10, 2010 - 1:00am Reporting from Highway 443, West Bank — Cruising down this disputed four-lane highway, with all its twists and turns, is like taking a road trip through the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You pass the walls and barriers that keep Palestinians from accessing Highway 443 as it slices through their land. Then there are the hazardous corridors where Israeli drivers have been shot and killed. » Read more

Lieberman 'key' to cabinet vote on settlement freeze ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Jonathan Lis - October 4, 2010 - 12:00am A cabinet decision to extend the moratorium on settlement construction, which expired late last month, hinges on the support of either Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman or Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Atias, senior Likud officials told Haaretz yesterday. The officials said that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asks the cabinet to extend the freeze, he would need the vote of Atias, a Shas minister seen as a moderate, or of Lieberman, who heads the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party. » Read more