Study: Violence Begets Violence Among Palestinian, Israeli Youth ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Mairav Zonszein - (Analysis) September 11, 2012 - 12:00am Early on the morning of Aug. 17, a Palestinian youth was beaten unconscious by a mob of Israeli teenagers in West Jerusalem’s Zion Square. The assailants were teenagers, some as young as 13, and many more youths allegedly stood around and watched. One perpetrator told the press that as far as he is concerned, the victim should die because “he is an Arab."  » Read more

Food unites Israeli Jews and Arabs in ways politics cannot ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star by David Amitai - (Opinion) September 12, 2012 - 12:00am Every week for the past five months, a group of Arab and Jewish women from neighboring towns near Haifa, Israel, have come together to cook. Each week, they meet in a different woman’s home, discovering their commonalities and differences by sharing recipes, culinary traditions and childhood memories. » Read more

U.S.-Israel tensions on Iran are boiling over ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) by Ron Kampeas - (Opinion) September 11, 2012 - 12:00am WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Between the red lines, the deadlines, the diplomacy and the dress downs, the vaunted cooperation between Israel and the United States on whether and when to strike Iran seems to be in a free fall. » Read more

Academic boycotts, science and hypocrisy ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian by Steve Caplan - (Opinion) September 11, 2012 - 12:00am I am a scientist and a citizen of the world. Born in the US, raised in Canada, trained in Israel and back again in the US. Now this is not a particularly unusual story. Even in Israel, as a graduate student, I encountered other graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and principal investigators from around the globe. In my own graduate lab in Israel, there was a Chinese-born woman who trained in the US and had been living and working as a senior investigator in Israel since the mid-1970s. Science is an international affair. » Read more

Misunderstanding America ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Moshe Arens - (Opinion) September 11, 2012 - 12:00am The self-appointed experts on American-Israeli relations are wrong again. According to them these relations have sunk to a new low, and the Netanyahu government is doing inestimable damage to a relationship which, as all recognize, is an integral part of Israel's security. » Read more

Being a tomato beats being an Arab ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Oudeh Basharat - (Opinion) September 12, 2012 - 12:00am Correspondents who deal with tomatoes show more empathy for their subjects than do correspondents who cover Arab affairs. Channel 2's Roni Daniel, for example, so staunchly defends the subjects of his coverage, that it sometimes seems as though the IDF spokesperson is on the screen, not the network's military affairs correspondent. The Arab affairs correspondent for Ch. 10, Zvi Yehezkeli, depicts his subjects in as corrosively a negative light as he can possibly muster. » Read more

The PA serves everyone but its public ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Amira Hass - (Opinion) September 12, 2012 - 12:00am The West Bank is burning, and where is Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas? In India, on an official visit. The distance between New Delhi and Ramallah is an apt metaphor for the alienated relationship between the chairman of the PLO - the organization that sees itself as "the sole legal representative of the Palestinian people" - and those it claims to represent.

News Analysis: Free Trade Zone with Egypt may serve Hamas interests ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua by Saud Abu Ramadan - (Analysis) September 12, 2012 - 12:00am GAZA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian observers and analysts believe that both the smuggling tunnels that were dug underneath the borderline between Egypt and the Gaza Strip ruled by Islamic Hamas movement, or a future free trade area at the borders with Egypt, are serving the movement's interests. » Read more

Seven Lean Years of Peacemaking ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Daniel Levy - (Opinion) September 11, 2012 - 12:00am SEVEN years ago today, the Israeli flag was lowered over the Gaza Strip after approximately 7,500 Israeli settlers left or were forcibly removed. » Read more

US seeks to head off Palestinian UN ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Agence France Presse (AFP) September 12, 2012 - 12:00am WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States is trying to dissuade Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas from seeking non-member status at the United Nations at top UN meetings later this month, an official said.“We continue to make clear that we believe that the only realistic path for the Palestinians to achieve statehood is through direct negotiations,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.Abbas said on Saturday he will make a bid on September 27 to upgrade the Palestinians to non-member status before the annual UN General Assembly. » Read more