March 19th

Hawks Steering Debate on How to Take On Iran ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Mark Landler, Eric Lichtblau - March 18, 2012 - 12:00am WASHINGTON — Even before President Obama declared this month that “I have Israel’s back” in its escalating confrontation with Iran, pro-Israel figures like the evangelical Christian leader Gary L. Bauer and the conservative commentator William Kristol were pushing for more. » Read more

Palestinians are up to ears in debt ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Edmund Sanders - March 18, 2012 - 12:00am Reporting from Ramallah, West Bank— Ayman and Rahma abu Hussein can't help but feel they are moving up in the world. The database engineer and his wife just bought their first home, and it's large enough for both of their children to have their own rooms. There's a Hyundai parked outside and a flat-panel TV hangs in the living room, one of many new appliances decking out the place. » Read more

Palestinians are up to ears in debt ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Edmund Sanders - March 18, 2012 - 12:00am Reporting from Ramallah, West Bank— Ayman and Rahma abu Hussein can't help but feel they are moving up in the world. The database engineer and his wife just bought their first home, and it's large enough for both of their children to have their own rooms. There's a Hyundai parked outside and a flat-panel TV hangs in the living room, one of many new appliances decking out the place. » Read more

Palestinians are up to ears in debt ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Edmund Sanders - March 18, 2012 - 12:00am Reporting from Ramallah, West Bank— Ayman and Rahma abu Hussein can't help but feel they are moving up in the world. The database engineer and his wife just bought their first home, and it's large enough for both of their children to have their own rooms. There's a Hyundai parked outside and a flat-panel TV hangs in the living room, one of many new appliances decking out the place. » Read more

March 16th

Stop Humiliating Palestinian Refugees ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star by Sari Hanafi - (Opinion) March 16, 2012 - 12:00am In a recent talk at the American University of Beirut, Chile’s former president, Michelle Bachelet, described how her country’s parliament was forced to issue a general amnesty in 1978, as a condition imposed by the dictator Augusto Pinochet to abandon power. Yet Chilean judges have refused to implement the law. Along with a vibrant civil society, they refuse to grant immunity to those who violated human rights. » Read more

Jewish Donors Can Influence Israel’s War on Arabic ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Ron Gerlitz - (Opinion) March 16, 2012 - 12:00am Last week, I had to spend some time at the new children's wing of Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Karem, Jerusalem. The hospital serves Arabs as well as Jews, and it was my impression that all its patients are treated professionally and with equality. But Arabic-language signs are almost nonexistent in this brand-new and impressive wing. » Read more

Backlash to Netanyahu’s Iran Speech Ignores the Holocaust’s Enduring Effect ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by David Landau - (Opinion) March 16, 2012 - 12:00am Israelis needed, as we know, an entire generation until they were able to look the sights of the Holocaust, its refugees, the very fact of its occurrence, straight in the eye. We needed another entire generation until we began to acknowledge, or at least to consider, the claim that there was something cold and aloof in the Yishuv's response and in its conduct even during the time of the Holocaust itself. » Read more

Obama Help With Israeli Preemptive Strike on Iran Would Violate International, U.S. Law ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor by L. Michael Hager - (Opinion) March 15, 2012 - 12:00am If Israel should launch a unilateral attack on Iran in response to a mere threat to weaponize its nuclear program, should the United States come to Israel’s aid? Before responding affirmatively, American policymakers should consider a word that has rarely appeared in the public debates on Iran or in the media. That word is 'law': international law and US law. » Read more

The impact of the US-Israeli confrontation with Iran ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Mkhaimer Abu Sada - (Opinion) March 15, 2012 - 12:00am The debate over Iran's nuclear program has been at the forefront of official US-Israel deliberations. The recent meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama at the White House was overshadowed by Iran's nuclear program and whether an attack should be used to derail it. The debate is not over whether or not to attack, but rather when. » Read more

From crisis to crisis ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) March 15, 2012 - 12:00am A few weeks ago, when the "attack Iran chatter" in Israel took an upgrading shift in quality (of the people doing the chatter) and in quantity (the amount of times the chatter focused on operational options), I was convinced that a decision had been taken to hit Iran. In thinking about the consequences of that attack, I immediately pondered the unintended consequences as well. » Read more