November 10th

UN aftermath creates ripple effect across campus ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post November 10, 2011 - 1:00am The recent events at the United Nations offered pro-Israel students an opportunity to watch history unfold in real time: they saw the Palestinian Authority (PA) bring its unilateral bid for independence to New York, and they saw President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu deliver speeches decrying the effort. » Read more

UN aftermath creates ripple effect across campus ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post November 10, 2011 - 1:00am The recent events at the United Nations offered pro-Israel students an opportunity to watch history unfold in real time: they saw the Palestinian Authority (PA) bring its unilateral bid for independence to New York, and they saw President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu deliver speeches decrying the effort. » Read more

UN aftermath creates ripple effect across campus ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post November 10, 2011 - 1:00am The recent events at the United Nations offered pro-Israel students an opportunity to watch history unfold in real time: they saw the Palestinian Authority (PA) bring its unilateral bid for independence to New York, and they saw President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu deliver speeches decrying the effort. » Read more

Hamas support on the wane amid crackdowns on political dissent ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian by Chris McGreal - November 10, 2011 - 1:00am Samah Ahmed is once again a prisoner of Gaza, but this time it is at the hands of Hamas not Israel. Years of travelling relatively freely after Israel lost control of the enclave's border with Egypt came to an abrupt halt a few months ago when Ahmed's strident criticisms of Hamas caught the attention of Gaza's increasingly unpopular Islamist rulers. Ahmed was beaten and stabbed at a political demonstration. Her brother was warned to keep her in line. Then Hamas stopped Ahmed leaving the Gaza Strip. Four times. » Read more

New Israeli-Palestinian land dispute rises as Dead Sea water levels drop ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Chaim Levinson - November 10, 2011 - 1:00am The retreat of the Dead Sea is a problem not only for environmentalists, but for the Civil Administration's legal experts who must establish who owns the land uncovered by the receding coastline. In some parts, the coast has retreated by as much as half a kilometer, necessitating the relocation of parking lots, stores and other tourist facilities that are now too far from the water. Since the sea's northern section lies in the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces Civil Administration is responsible for approving plans to relocate the facilities. » Read more

Palestinian 'freedom riders' to board Israeli buses ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency November 10, 2011 - 1:00am Palestinian activists will attempt to board Israeli buses in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday in an action inspired by the American civil rights movement. "Palestinian activists will reenact the US Civil Rights Movement's Freedom Rides to the American South by boarding segregated Israeli public transportation in the West Bank to travel to occupied East Jerusalem," organizers said in a statement. » Read more

Blasts hit Egypt-Israel gas pipeline ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency November 10, 2011 - 1:00am Saboteurs blew up the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan on Thursday in Northern Sinai using remote controlled bombs, forcing it to shut down, Egyptian security sources said. The first blast, the sixth since the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak and the seventh this year, was near Mazar area, 30 kilometers west of the town of Al-Arish, security sources and witnesses said. » Read more

White House tries to limit Netanyahu 'liar' damage ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency November 10, 2011 - 1:00am The White House sought on Wednesday to limit damage to US-Israel relations following revelations that French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel "a liar" in a private conversation with President Barack Obama. "Our record speaks very clearly about the president's commitment to Israel and he has maintained a very close working relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu," White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters, referring to Obama. » Read more

'Liar': Will Sarkozy's Netanyahu jab mar cooperation on Iran? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor by Joshua Mitnick - November 9, 2011 - 1:00am On a day when the United Nations offered evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, the news that French President Nicolas Sarkozy was caught calling Israel's prime minister a "liar" to President Obama highlighted tensions between Israel and its Western allies – and whether they can effectively team up to face a common enemy. » Read more

PA unlikely to ask for full UN membership ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Khaled Abu Toameh - November 10, 2011 - 1:00am The Palestinian Authority failed in its bid for full UN membership, its officials admitted on Wednesday. They said they were now unlikely to call for a vote on the matter in the Security Council. The PA is expected instead to turn to the General Assembly, where it has an automatic majority, and ask that its status be upgraded to that of an observer nation. This would give the Palestinians de facto international recognition as a state, even if it does not bestow upon them full-state rights in the international arena. » Read more