October 5th

Arsonists set fire to mosque in West Bank town ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Joel Greenberg - October 4, 2010 - 12:00am BEIT FAJAR, WEST BANK - Arsonists set fire to a mosque in this Palestinian town early Monday, charring Korans, burning holes into the carpet and scrawling "revenge" in Hebrew near the doorway. The attack, which residents blamed on Jewish settlers, threatened to stir passions amid a crisis in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks over settlement construction. It was strongly condemned by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. » Read more

Arsonists set fire to mosque in West Bank town ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Joel Greenberg - October 4, 2010 - 12:00am BEIT FAJAR, WEST BANK - Arsonists set fire to a mosque in this Palestinian town early Monday, charring Korans, burning holes into the carpet and scrawling "revenge" in Hebrew near the doorway. The attack, which residents blamed on Jewish settlers, threatened to stir passions amid a crisis in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks over settlement construction. It was strongly condemned by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. » Read more

Arsonists set fire to mosque in West Bank town ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Joel Greenberg - October 4, 2010 - 12:00am BEIT FAJAR, WEST BANK - Arsonists set fire to a mosque in this Palestinian town early Monday, charring Korans, burning holes into the carpet and scrawling "revenge" in Hebrew near the doorway. The attack, which residents blamed on Jewish settlers, threatened to stir passions amid a crisis in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks over settlement construction. It was strongly condemned by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. » Read more

Arsonists set fire to mosque in West Bank town ATFP World Press Roundup Article from December 31, 1969 - 8:00pm BEIT FAJAR, WEST BANK - Arsonists set fire to a mosque in this Palestinian town early Monday, charring Korans, burning holes into the carpet and scrawling "revenge" in Hebrew near the doorway. The attack, which residents blamed on Jewish settlers, threatened to stir passions amid a crisis in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks over settlement construction. It was strongly condemned by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. » Read more

October 4th

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