A difference beyond question ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Richard Cohen - (Opinion) August 6, 2012 - 12:00am Before the Jews of Hungary were emancipated in the 19th century, they were not permitted to own land. By the end of the century, they were on their way to owning fully one-fifth of Hungary’s large estates and were hugely successful in business and the arts. The Jews of Germany had a similar history. » Read more

Israel Must Accommodate The Arabic Language ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Yedioth Ahronoth by Gilad Kariv - (Opinion) August 6, 2012 - 12:00am Not long ago while on an El Al flight, I received an explanation from a service manager about the plane’s sound system. On a list hung on the side of the control box was a roster of the numerous languages used in the in-flight announcements. Only one language did not appear: Israel's second official language, Arabic. » Read more

Israel’s future depends on two states ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by David Halperin, Peter A. Joseph - (Opinion) August 6, 2012 - 12:00am The Israel Policy Forum clearly struck a chord when it sent a letter signed by a politically diverse group of over 40 philanthropists and Jewish leaders to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urging him not to adopt the Levy Report. » Read more

On Apartheid ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) August 6, 2012 - 12:00am Spending days with the Jewish community of South Africa at Limmud is a unique opportunity to meet another dynamic, engaged Jewish community in the Diaspora. » Read more

Egypt’s challenge ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post (Editorial) August 6, 2012 - 12:00am We express our heartfelt condolences to Egypt over the murder of 16 of its soldiers at a base in Sinai near the Israeli border on Sunday. » Read more

Obama: real actions, not bluster, in support of Israel ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Edgar M. Bronfman - (Opinion) August 6, 2012 - 12:00am I have always held the well-being of the Jewish people close to my heart. On its behalf, I have engaged countless heads of state on matters relating to the Jewish people and the State of Israel. » Read more

The 'cruel revenge' that helped drive the British out of Palestine ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Ofer Aderet - (Opinion) August 7, 2012 - 12:00am In July 1947, two British sergeants were being held in a narrow, closely-guarded bunker that had been dug underneath a diamond-polishing plant in Netanya. The two were captured by the Irgun, and the Jewish underground militia threatened to hang them unless the British commuted the death sentences of three Irgun operatives. » Read more

“Dear President Perez” ATFP World Press Roundup Article from NOW Lebanon by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) August 7, 2012 - 12:00am A major controversy erupted last week when Israel announced that Egyptian President Mohammad Morsy had sent a letter in reply to Ramadan greetings he had received from Israeli President Shimon Peres. » Read more

Syria’s Palestinians Seeking Help in Lebanon ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line by Stephen Staff - August 6, 2012 - 12:00am On the streets of Hamra, a neighborhood of Beirut where young Lebanese men in expensive sports cars make their presence known by playing loud music, Syrian accents are clearly heard. They come from the young mothers begging for money and food on the sidewalks who have fled the violence that has racked their country, in what initially began as a peaceful uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Their children run and play in the streets of Hamra past well-heeled and fashionably-dressed Lebanese women. » Read more

Gaza Water Increasingly Polluted and Expensive ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line by Linda Gradstein - August 6, 2012 - 12:00am Gaza’s population is increasing, and the water supply is not keeping pace according to Oxfam, the British human rights organization. In a new report, the group asserts that Gazans are spending as much as one-third of their household income on drinking water, and are facing growing health risks. » Read more