November 16th

Morsi's challenge: An Israel-Hamas truce ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Zvi Barel - (Opinion) November 16, 2012 - 1:00am Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is facing one of the most difficult diplomatic challenges of his brief tenure. Recalling his ambassador from Israel for “consultations” hasn’t eased the pressure for stronger action from his own party and others. His decision to send Prime Minister Hisham Qandil to Gaza on Friday is thus in part an effort to show his own people that his government supports Hamas and the Palestinian people in Gaza. » Read more

Morsi's Gaza Challenge ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) November 15, 2012 - 1:00am Reports that open areas near Tel Aviv or waters off its coast were struck by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have transformed the politics and psychology of the conflict, making a major Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip much more likely. » Read more

Muslim Brotherhood mobilizes protests against Israel in Cairo ATFP World Press Roundup Article from USA Today by Sarah Lynch - November 16, 2012 - 1:00am 10:36AM EST November 16. 2012 - CAIRO – Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets Friday protesting Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, waving Palestinian flags across the Egyptian capital and demanding the Egyptian government cut ties with Israel. "We're here today to say to Israel: Go to Hell," said Mustafa Kamel from a Cairo neighborhood called Imbaba at a demonstration outside Al-Azhar Mosque that was planned by the Muslim Brotherhood. "Muslims are strong. In Egypt, we refuse Israel and the politics of America." » Read more

Muslim Brotherhood mobilizes protests against Israel in Cairo ATFP World Press Roundup Article from USA Today November 15, 2012 - 1:00am 10:36AM EST November 16. 2012 - CAIRO – Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets Friday protesting Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, waving Palestinian flags across the Egyptian capital and demanding the Egyptian government cut ties with Israel. "We're here today to say to Israel: Go to Hell," said Mustafa Kamel from a Cairo neighborhood called Imbaba at a demonstration outside Al-Azhar Mosque that was planned by the Muslim Brotherhood. "Muslims are strong. In Egypt, we refuse Israel and the politics of America." » Read more

Closing Roads as Popular Resistance in West Bank ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Hayat by Mohammad Younes - November 15, 2012 - 1:00am Israeli settlers and soldiers were met yesterday with an unusual Palestinian confrontational approach, as hundreds of youth, accompanied by Israeli and foreign sympathizers, took over roads reserved for settlers and barricaded them with chains or their own bodies. » Read more

Palestinians detached from Sidon instability ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star by Mohammed Zaatari - November 15, 2012 - 1:00am SIDON, Lebanon: Palestinian officials are concerned about mounting sectarian tension in Sidon’s Taamir neighborhood, and stress that they want to remain detached from Lebanese affairs. The comments were made following armed clashes which erupted there last weekend between supporters of Salafist Sheikh Ahmad Assir and Hezbollah supporters, killing three. Also, Tuesday night, an explosion ripped through Taamir, close to the site of Sunday’s deadly clashes, damaging seven vehicles but causing no injuries. » Read more

Deterrence is the idea behind Israel’s strikes in Gaza, but how far will conflict with Hamas go? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) by Ben Sales - November 15, 2012 - 1:00am SDEROT, Israel (JTA) -- Wage war to get peace. That’s the idea behind Israel’s strikes this week against Hamas targets in Gaza, including Wednesday’s attack that killed Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. What’s not clear is how far Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense will go, what price Israeli civilians will pay in the conflict, whether it will succeed in its goal of deterring Hamas from future attacks on Israel and what consequences there might be for Jerusalem’s fragile relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood-led government in Egypt. » Read more

Under attack, Gazans preparing to apply lessons of Cast Lead ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Abeer Ayyoub - November 15, 2012 - 1:00am Just like every time: three, four, maybe five days at the max, this round of escalation will be over. This is how Gazans have been dealing with the constant rounds of escalation recently, and unexceptionally, me too. But exceptionally, this time was different: the volume of violence was higher - no surprise, as the resistance went much further. Targeting the jeep on the Israeli border wasn’t something that Israel would let go easily; therefore, an Israeli reaction was definitely expected – just not this big. » Read more

UN agency says one of its teachers killed by Israeli airstrike on Gaza ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua November 16, 2012 - 1:00am UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- A UN agency working for Palestinian refugees said that one of its teachers was killed in northern Gaza on Thursday by an Israeli airstrike, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here. "The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) says that one of its teachers was killed on Thursday by an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza," Nesirky said at a daily news briefing here. » Read more

Hamas, Jihad claimed responsibility for rockets landing near Tel Aviv ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua November 16, 2012 - 1:00am GAZA, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- The armed wings of Islamic Hamas movement and Islamic Jihad on Thursday claimed responsibility for firing two Iranian-made Fajr rockets that landed in Jaffa and Rishon Kitzion, south of Israel's Tel Aviv. The two groups said in two separate leaflets emailed to reporters that their militants fired the rockets in response to the killing of Ahmed al-Jaabari, head of the Hamas armed wing, by Israel on Wednesday. » Read more