January 11th

Critics of Likud's new vanguard say party has abandoned founder's ideals ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor by Ben Lynfield - January 10, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

Israel's arms exports reached 7 bln USD in 2012 ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua January 10, 2013 - 1:00am   According to estimates published Thursday by the defense ministry, Israeli defense equipment exports reached 7 billion U.S. dollars in 2012. The figure marks a 20-percent increase from the amount of defense-related exports in 2011. Official data will be provided by the ministry in March 2013. » Read more

Israeli officials try to expedite construction of controversial East Jerusalem neighborhood ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua January 11, 2013 - 1:00am   The Israeli government along with the Jerusalem municipality are working hard at marketing the controversial East Jerusalem construction project prior to the Jan. 22 elections, local media reported Thursday. » Read more

Walls and winter rains afflict Palestinian towns ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Noah Browning - January 9, 2013 - 1:00am   Heavy winter downpours have turned some Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank into a morass of filth and flooding as an Israeli barrier blocks the waters from draining away. » Read more

Israeli police say blast criminally motivated ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press January 10, 2013 - 1:00am     » Read more

January 10th

The Three-State Solution ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by Aaron David Miller - (Opinion) January 10, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

Ahmad Tibi: No Apologies For Being a 'Palestinian Patriot' ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Shlomi Eldar - (Opinion) January 9, 2013 - 1:00am "I’m a Palestinian patriot whether you like it or not. If I wasn’t, I wouldn’t be Ahmad Tibi.” That’s how the Arab Knesset member who has spent fourteen years on the opposition benches of Israel’s parliament, describes himself in a special interview with Al-Monitor. » Read more

Iran Top Backer of Palestinian Islamic Jihad ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Abeer Ayyoub - (Opinion) January 9, 2013 - 1:00am   As far as the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, are concerned, 2012 was their golden year. For the first time, it managed to use qualitative weapons that seemingly altered the pace of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. » Read more

The confessions of Hamas are a message to the Islamists ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Asharq Alawsat by Osman Mirghani - (Opinion) January 9, 2013 - 1:00am   Speaking before the Islamists and Democratic Governance Conference a few months ago, Khaled Mishal, head of the Hamas political bureau, acknowledged there was a difference between opposition and governance, between imagination and reality, and between being a critic and a practitioner. He concluded that the Islamists in general had to admit that governance was harder than they had first imagined, and this applies to Hamas as well. » Read more

Chuck Hagel Failure May Haunt Hawks ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Forward (Opinion) January 9, 2013 - 1:00am   Hawkish groups that sought to pre-emptively sink Chuck Hagel’s candidacy for secretary of defense may have been trying to teach President Obama and his supporters a lesson — but it seems they’re the ones who may look back at this episode as a cautionary tale. » Read more