November 26th

The latest conflict in Gaza is over, so what happens next? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star by Gareth Evans - (Opinion) November 24, 2012 - 1:00am   » Read more

Wrong war in new regional order ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Gulf News (Opinion) November 26, 2012 - 1:00am   » Read more

The Gaza War Reinforces Palestinian Division and Threatens Abbas’s Palestinian Authority ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Hayat by Raghida Dergham - (Opinion) November 24, 2012 - 1:00am   The most recent war in Gaza has provided an opportunity on the field for Israel to test its new anti-missile system, the Iron Dome, and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prove to Israeli voters his ability to protect his country’s civilians from rockets fired by Hamas or Hezbollah.   » Read more

Long-range rockets change balance of power with Israel – Hamas strongman ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Asharq Alawsat by Salah Jumaa - (Opinion) November 23, 2012 - 1:00am   » Read more

Arafat exhumation is just a beginning ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National (Editorial) November 26, 2012 - 1:00am   Tomorrow, a team of French, Russian and Swiss scientists will unearth the remains of Yasser Arafat, interred in Ramallah since 2004. That project may begin to answer one of the intractable mysteries of the past decade: what (or who) killed the former Palestinian leader? » Read more

Gaza's Hard Truths ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward (Editorial) November 25, 2012 - 1:00am   Whatever happens in Gaza — and the news changes by the minute as this editorial is being written — all sides have to accept some very hard truths. If not, the bloodshed will resume, the anger and frustration will spread and the region, Israel’s neighborhood, will squander the hope and potential of the fragile cease-fire. » Read more

Israel Learned the Lessons of Last Gaza War ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward by Nathan Jeffay - (Opinion) November 26, 2012 - 1:00am   Operation Pillar of Defense was the military offensive fought in the shadow of the Goldstone Report. As a cease-fire was announced November 21 by Israel, Hamas, Egypt and the United States, there was broad agreement, spanning from former army chiefs to the biggest critics of Israel’s conduct during the Gaza War of 2008–9, that Israel showed it had learned some important lessons from this previous conflict. » Read more

Israel and Palestine's leaders – and cheerleaders – have failed them ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian by Jonathan Freedland - (Opinion) November 23, 2012 - 1:00am   There used to be one for each decade, an Arab-Israeli war in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 and 1982. Now the eruptions into full-scale confrontation are coming more often, at four- or even three-year intervals: 2006, 2008-2009 and the eight days of November 2012. » Read more

Who won in Gaza? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Barry Rubin - (Opinion) November 25, 2012 - 1:00am Naturally the question of who won any given war preoccupies people’s minds. » Read more

What Bill Clinton can teach Obama about the Israelis ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Natan Sachs - (Opinion) November 23, 2012 - 1:00am   » Read more