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Make a choice: Settlements or democracy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Tal Harris - (Opinion) June 13, 2012 - 12:00am The events surrounding last week’s Knesset vote on the illegal Ulpana outpost seemed like a vindication of Israeli democracy for many of its citizens. The Supreme Court ruling to evacuate 30 families living on Palestinian land was upheld, as was the notion that Israel’s democracy and the rule of law can exist side by side with its expanding presence in the West Bank. This is fiction. |
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Hamas govt: No peace with secularism
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency June 14, 2012 - 12:00am Islamic rule will prevail and will not make peace with secularism, the Interior Minister in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Wednesday. "There will be no peace with secularism. The only peace is first with God, then with Jihad, then with resistance, then with the people and with martyrs," Fathi Hammad said. |
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Why the world shouldn't support UNRWA
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Israel Harel - (Opinion) June 14, 2012 - 12:00am Five million Palestinians define themselves as refugees. They insist on festering away in camps, at the international community's expense, while holding fast to their main dream: returning to the towns and villages from which their ancestors fled or were expelled. Their ambition to realize this dream - which is a major stumbling block to ever ending the conflict - is made possible by the unending aid they have received for more than 60 years now from the UN Relief and Works Agency. |
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Gaza sniper targets Israeli farmer, as shooting attacks increase
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua June 14, 2012 - 12:00am A Palestinian sniper in the Gaza Strip on Thursday opened fire at an Israeli farmer in a community bordering the coastal enclave, the army told Xinhua. The farmer, who was unharmed in the attack, took cover behind a vehicle, which sustained damage in the shooting, according to Army radio. Troops in the vicinity returned deterrent fire, but it was unclear if the gunmen was hit. |
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Gaza blockade threatens two-state solution
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency June 14, 2012 - 12:00am Israel's 5-year blockade of the Gaza Strip has compromised the two-state solution in ways which will be difficult to reverse, an Israeli legal rights group has warned. "Gaza’s connections with Israel and the West Bank, vital for its economy and the welfare of its residents, are still subject to sweeping restrictions on movement," Gisha said in its latest report. |
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The affable face of evil
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) June 14, 2012 - 12:00am Israeli evil wears many faces these days. There are the rude, the crude and the thuggish, who still manage to generate some heat: When MK Miri Regev goes off on one of her jingoist, gutter-talk rampages - "the 'infiltrators' are a cancer" - some people are still shocked. The same goes for her partner in base incitement, MK Danny Danon, known for spouting his own swinish pearls of wisdom, or Interior Minister Eli Yishai, no piker when it comes to bandying about inflammatory language about crime or about spreading disease. |
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Aid groups urge Israel to lift Gaza blockade
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Crispian Balmer - June 14, 2012 - 12:00am Fifty international aid groups and United Nations agencies issued a joint appeal on Thursday calling on Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Hamas Islamists. "For over five years in Gaza, more than 1.6 million people have been under blockade in violation of international law. More than half of these people are children. We the undersigned say with one voice: 'end the blockade now,'" the petition said. |
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Occupation double-speak
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Michael Sfard - (Opinion) June 12, 2012 - 12:00am We are now marking the 45th anniversary of the largest national project in our young country's history: the suppression of millions of peoples' longing for independence and freedom. This project is bigger than the National Water Carrier, more expensive than the Lavi fighter jet, which never did take off, and more foolish than the idea of draining Lake Hula, which wound up exacting a tremendous ecological cost. We are all invested in it up to our necks -- financially, politically and, most important, morally. |
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Hamas informer in Israel on lecture tour
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Amy Teibel - June 14, 2012 - 12:00am The son of a Hamas founder who renounced his father's militant group to spy for Israel has returned to the Jewish state on a pro-Israel lecture tour, an Israeli official said Thursday. Mosab Yousef was invited by Druse Arab lawmaker Ayoob Kara, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. |
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Ex-Israeli soldier seeks Palestinian citizenship
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Dalia Nammari - June 14, 2012 - 12:00am In an odd twist to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian saga, a former Israeli soldier has embarked on a new fight: He wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. Andre Pshenichnikov, a 23-year-old Jewish immigrant from Tajikistan, was recently detained by Israeli police for residing illegally in the Deheishe Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. There he told police that he wants to break all ties with Israel, give up his Israeli citizenship and obtain a Palestinian one instead. |