October 10th

Enough Already ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by Aaron David Miller - (Opinion) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am Once every four years, rational, right-thinking Americans get crazy. Election ads clearly hype up an already polarized electorate. And right about now, on the hot-button issues of the day -- debt, deficit, who's leading from behind in foreign policy and who's not -- many Americans seem to lose the capacity to think for themselves. » Read more

New Film Explores Israeli, Arab Views on Sex With the ‘Other’ ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Sophie Claudet - (Interview) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am PARIS — It all started when Yolande Zauberman and her partner in life and work, Selim Nassib, began to work on a screenplay of Nassib’s novel, The Palestinian Lover, which tells the story of an alleged, passionate affair between Golda Meir and a rich Arab banker in then British-administered Palestine. » Read more

Israel Can Deter Iran ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Reuven Pedatzur - (Opinion) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am The failure of Israeli policymaking with regards to the Iranian nuclear threat is rooted in the fact that Israeli leaders are completely ignoring the need to discuss Israel’s policy in the event that Iran succeeds in equipping itself with nuclear weapons. In all the discussions taking place in the closed forums led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the focus is on one question alone: whether or not to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities. » Read more

The miraculous October 1973 victory ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Asharq Alawsat by Emad El Din Adeeb - (Opinion) September 10, 2012 - 12:00am I find it particularly painful when some of my colleagues show a lack of appreciation for the victorious October 1973 war; a miraculous humanitarian and military victory by any standards. » Read more

Zionist fantacide ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am A day doesn’t go by when I am not asked “isn’t the two-state solution dead?” Today I was asked twice. A former staunch Israeli supporter of this solution called me this evening and said he wanted to begin talking to Palestinians about other options because “it is too late to move the settlers out of the West Bank, they are there to stay and we have to find some way to live together.” » Read more

61 seats - mission possible ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Sefi Rachlevsky - (Opinion) October 10, 2012 - 12:00am A year ago, in private conversations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak marked the winter of 2013 as the time for elections - and not because of the budget. The reason was U.S. President Barack Obama. Netanyahu wanted Obama to have as little time as possible to take revenge on him. The thing is, now Republican candidate Mitt Romney might win. To risk losing eight months with him as president - months so decisive for a war with Iran - is a tough gamble for Netanyahu. » Read more

Is Romney's foreign policy a radical departure from Obama's? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian by Chris McGreal - (Opinion) October 8, 2012 - 12:00am Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has given his most detailed foreign policy speech to date. But how does Romney's vision for America's place in the world compare to the policies currently being pursued by the Obama administration – and there any contradictions? Syria » Read more

Romney spares details as he hits Obama on foreign policy ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Andrew Quinn - (Analysis) October 8, 2012 - 12:00am WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday ratcheted up his campaign to cast President Barack Obama as a weak steward of U.S. power, but offered few specific clues about how he would handle world crises differently. » Read more

Where Settler Terrorism Comes From ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am Following a series of violent incidents involving settler and pro-settler Jewish Israeli extremists, including the attempted lynching of a Palestinian youth in Jerusalem, many Israelis expressed concern about the rise in violent hatred within their society and wondered where it was coming from. Several incidents over the weekend demonstrated that this trend is only intensifying and clearly pointed to why. » Read more

Palestinians set first private sector minimum wage ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Agence France Presse (AFP) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — The Palestinian government on Tuesday approved a minimum wage of 1,450 shekels ($376, 290 euros) a month for the private sector, labour minister Ahmed Majdalani said. "This is an unprecedented decision... on which we can build," Majdalani told AFP, dismissing criticism that the rate was to low. » Read more