March 6th

The next intifada ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Asharq Alawsat by Emad El Din Adeeb - (Opinion) March 5, 2012 - 1:00am There is new Israeli intelligence information about an imminent Palestinian intifada, ranging from Gaza to Ramallah. This information was leaked from the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate, but no one can be sure whether the objective of such an information leakage is to prevent a genuine intifada that is being secretly prepared underground, or whether it is merely a media cloud intended to cover up another crime committed by the occupying Israeli army. This issue cannot be analyzed without taking four other fundamental factors into consideration, which are as follows: » Read more

Israeli state officials disappointed with Obama meeting ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Attila Somfalvi - March 6, 2012 - 1:00am Israeli state officials were disappointed Tuesday with the results of the Netanyahu-Obama meeting at the White House on Monday. "There were no surprises," a senior state official said. "It was clear from recent months that there are differences between ourselves and the Americans. We have different perspectives when it comes to the question of time and red lines." It was claimed that the Americans view the Iranian issue in the context of the upcoming presidential elections. "It's a bad message for the issue and a good message for the Iranians," a state official said. » Read more

A third Palestinian intifada may be in the cards ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times by Linda Heard - (Opinion) March 6, 2012 - 1:00am Palestinian leaders are talking tough these days. And who can blame them! For decades they've been listening to empty Israeli promises and put their future in the hands of a succession of US presidents duplicitously claiming to be impartial peace brokers. » Read more

Destabilised, disintegrated Syria benefits Israel ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times by Musa Keilani - (Opinion) March 3, 2012 - 1:00am The Israelis are having an ongoing debate over the anti-regime uprising in Syria, with participants saying that the world is not doing anything about the carnage against the Syrian people by security forces loyal to the government. Many Israelis use the opportunity to thrash the Arabs, in the process, accusing them of doing nothing to help the Syrian people. » Read more

The Emergency Committee for Israel Cries Wolf ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New Yorker by Connie Bruck - (Opinion) March 5, 2012 - 1:00am In the last few days, just before the highly-charged meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama, and, also, the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee meeting, where both Netanyahu and Obama were to address about fourteen thousand Israel supporters, the Emergency Committee for Israel moved into high gear. » Read more

Egypt: Sinai Gas Line Attacked ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press March 5, 2012 - 1:00am Militants again blew up a Sinai Peninsula gas pipeline that carries fuel to neighboring Israel and Jordan, Egyptian security officials said Monday. The attack was the 13th on a pipeline since the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak last year. The officials said the bombing occurred just three days after the pipeline was repaired and shipments to Israel and Jordan resumed. Islamists have been blamed for previous attacks.

Egypt: Sinai Gas Line Attacked ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press March 5, 2012 - 1:00am Militants again blew up a Sinai Peninsula gas pipeline that carries fuel to neighboring Israel and Jordan, Egyptian security officials said Monday. The attack was the 13th on a pipeline since the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak last year. The officials said the bombing occurred just three days after the pipeline was repaired and shipments to Israel and Jordan resumed. Islamists have been blamed for previous attacks.

March 5th

Netanyahu Won't Attack Iran ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by Daniel Levy - (Opinion) March 2, 2012 - 1:00am The intensity of background spin emanating from Washington and Jerusalem threatens to leave very little to the imagination in advance of the March 5 meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Various U.S. officials, current and former, named and anonymous, have shared their skepticism regarding Israel's ability to inflict decisive damage on Iran's nuclear-enrichment program, as well as their trepidation at the costs, consequences, and retaliatory attacks that might follow from an Israeli strike. » Read more

Threatened ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New Yorker by David Remnick - (Opinion) March 12, 2012 - 12:00am Democracy is never fully achieved. At best, it’s an ambition, a state of becoming. In America, it took generations for blacks, women, and gays and lesbians to win the rights of citizenship—rights that, in many instances, remain incomplete. (Various contenders for the Presidency are now competing to scale back such rights.) The twenty-first century began with a fraudulent Presidential election. And this is in the luckiest of nations. Elsewhere—in Russia, in Hungary, in Zimbabwe—the fragility of democratic aspiration is a brutal fact of history. » Read more

Time for Palestinians to speak out ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Oudeh Basharat - (Opinion) March 4, 2012 - 1:00am A hurricane the size of Katrina has hit the Middle East coastline - a hurricane of hypocrisy. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who represents a country that has been making regular use of its veto in the United Nations Security Council in support of the Israeli occupation, is disgusted by the veto cast by Russia on a resolution condemning the Syrian regime. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who imprisons Palestinians under a 45-year wall of occupation, sheds tears over human rights in Syria. » Read more