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The ‘A-Word’ in Hebron
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward by Letty Cottin Pogrebin - (Opinion) March 23, 2011 - 12:00am You’ve probably read about the situation in the West Bank city of Hebron, where some 800 Jewish settlers live in the midst of 170,000 Palestinians. But being there is something else. Being there can make you sick to your stomach; being there you can’t help thinking of the “A-word.” |
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Second wave of strikes injures 1 in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency March 24, 2011 - 12:00am A second Israeli airstrike Thursday morning hit a group of men beside a gas station in the northern Gaza Strip around 8:30 a.m., hours after a wave of strikes targeted sites across the coastal enclave. Spokesman of the higher committee of ambulance and emergency services Adham Abu Salmiya said the latest bombing targeted a site near the Jabaliya refugee camp, and injured one. A statement from Israel's military said the air force "identified a group of terrorists preparing to launch rockets at Israeli territory, and thwarted the attempt by firing at them." |
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Jerusalem bombing comes amid rising Israel-Gaza violence
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor by Joshua Mitnick - March 23, 2011 - 12:00am The first Jerusalem bombing in years rocked a bus stop in the city center today, wounding more than 20. The explosion comes amid rising Israeli-Palestinian violence and speculation that another war with the Islamist militant group Hamas is inevitable. One Jerusalem resident who heard the explosion said it had been so long since the last attack that the bombing sounded like a crash from a nearby construction site. |
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Peace Can’t Be Provisional
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward by Ephraim Sneh - (Opinion) March 23, 2011 - 12:00am Israel needs to achieve an end to its conflict with the Palestinians. Recent developments in the region make this goal all the more urgent. Yet instead of working to achieve a permanent-status agreement, ending all claims by the two parties, we are increasingly hearing talk about pushing for an interim agreement based on provisional borders. This would be a profound mistake. |
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Jerusalem Blast Raises Fears of Growing Violence
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner - March 23, 2011 - 12:00am A bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop near Jerusalem’s main bus station on Wednesday, killing one woman and wounding at least 24 other people. It was the worst attack in Jerusalem in four years, putting Israelis on alert, shattering years of relative calm here and prompting international condemnation. Paramedics and others aided the wounded Wednesday after an explosion at a crowded Jerusalem bus stop. One person was killed and at least 24 were wounded. Residents ran for cover Wednesday during a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Beersheba, about 25 miles southeast of Gaza. |
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For Palestinians, action must follow talks
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National (Editorial) March 24, 2011 - 12:00am Frustrated by a stagnant political process, the Palestinian people have spoken - they want reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah. But can their leaders deliver? It seemed so at first glance last week. After street protests in Ramallah and Gaza saw thousands calling for a new unity government, Hamas's prime minister Ismail Haniyeh hastily invited Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, to Gaza. Mr Abbas, all too aware of the Palestinian Authority's crumbling support, had little choice but to respond. |
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'Both Israel, Hamas responsible for escalation'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times by Daoud Kuttab - March 24, 2011 - 12:00am Who is responsible for the sudden escalation of the situation in the Gaza Strip? All of a sudden rockets are coming out from Gaza after a period of calm and Israel tanks are shelling residential areas, which killed four members of the Helu family in the Shejaiya refugee camp in the Strip. |
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We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Conflict
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) March 23, 2011 - 12:00am The spread of conflict and violence across the Middle East is dampening widespread hopes of an "Arab Spring" that followed the peaceful ousters of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia. Anti-government demonstrations in Bahrain have taken on an increasingly bitter sectarian character, especially with the military intervention of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and the uprising in Libya has degenerated into an all-out civil war compounded by an international no-fly zone intervention. |
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The anti-democratic racism of Israel must end
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Sefi Rachlevsky - (Opinion) March 23, 2011 - 12:00am If there is one country in the world that should have heeded the commandment 'Thou shall not build nuclear reactors,' it is Japan, and that is not 20-20 hindsight. The traumas of World War II, of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with the fact that Japan sits on the seam of tectonic plates, should have kept it away from that path. But Japan became a leader in the construction of reactors after all. |
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The sanctity of the soaring Qassam
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Amira Hass - (Opinion) March 23, 2011 - 12:00am The Hamas authorities once again forgot that the neighbor/occupier to its east is crazy. Fact: Over Shabbat, Hamas' military wing fired more than 50 mortar shells at Israel. Or perhaps it didn't forget: Perhaps it merely thought the Palestinian people in Gaza were ready for another high-tech Israeli onslaught, for another Israel Defense Forces video game in which children playing on a roof are identified as lookouts and sentenced to death. |