February 20th

Kerry 1st trip to Europe, Mideast; no Israel stop ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press by Bradley S. Klapper - February 19, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

The Case for Israeli Censorship ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Ben Caspit - (Opinion) February 19, 2013 - 1:00am The affair of “Prisoner X,” otherwise known as Israeli Mossad agent Ben Zygier, raises anew the issue of censorship, freedom of speech and media coverage in Israel. Well, I am not the bearer of glad tidings. » Read more

As long as Netanyahu is PM, Livni will have to deal with the Palestinians his way ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Yossi Verter - (Opinion) February 20, 2013 - 1:00am Tzipi Livni is no less trustworthy or cynical than other politicians who broke their word, bent over backwards, put away away their slogans and election speeches and galloped into the arms of the one they had described as the mother of all sin. » Read more

Through the back door ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Nahum Barnea - (Opinion) February 20, 2013 - 1:00am Netanyahu is letting people board his bus first through the back door: Tzipi Livni is the first one to board. The second will be Shaul Mofaz. Then the front door will open and Shas and United Torah Judaism will be invited in. Netanyahu hopes that by then Labor will be convinced to board as well. » Read more

February 19th

Israelis, Palestinians and ‘managing the crisis’ ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News by Hassan Barari - February 17, 2013 - 1:00am A few days ago, the Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said that chances to reach an agreement with the Palestinians on the issue of permanent borders would be modest. He argued that whatever happens, parties will be left only with “managing the crisis.” Difficult as it may look, Liberman has articulated what many observers already know. Ever since the peace process has run aground following the advent of Sharon’s first government, events unfolded have only reinforced what Liberman had said. » Read more

Palestinians Need To Learn The Lesson On Antisemitism ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast by Emily L. Hauser - (Opinion) February 15, 2013 - 1:00am On January 31, Ma’an News Agency ran an opinion piece on its Arabic-language website in which the author, Ghassan Mustafa al-Shami, unleashed his decidedly vile opinion that the Holocaust is a “myth” spread and exploited by Jews for our own nefarious ends: » Read more

Israel is the sleeping enemy within the US ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Gulf News by Tariq A. Al-Maeena - (Opinion) February 16, 2013 - 1:00am When writers daringly break barriers and put out reports on the dangers of Israeli manipulation of US politics for self-serving interests, their pieces are quickly dismissed as anti-Semitic hysteria. But historical events justify the alarm raised by a few western writers against a deeply embedded menace within the US political system. It is a menace that singularly promotes Israeli interests above American ones, and effectively uses US politicians for that purpose. » Read more

On eve of Israeli visit, renowned academic Zygmunt Bauman laments protracted occupation ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Avner Shapira - February 16, 2013 - 1:00am Professor Zygmunt Bauman last visited Israel some 20 years ago, during the period of the second government of Yitzhak Rabin. “I came to Israel during the tragically brief episode of Rabin’s government − the time of hope that the nation was about to come to its senses, stop the rot and follow the road out of the impasse,” he recalls now. “That episode, though, was brought to a violent end shortly after − not by a Palestinian, but by a Jewish bullet. » Read more

Joining the ICC: What is the P.A. waiting for? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Arabiya by Sharif Nashashibi - (Opinion) February 18, 2013 - 1:00am Palestine’s upgraded status at the U.N. to non-member observer state handed it a potent weapon against the longest military occupation in modern history: the ability to join the International Criminal Court. So what has the Palestinian Authority done with this weapon in the months since? Absolutely nothing, and for no discernible reason. » Read more

Haneen Zoabi, Israeli Lawmaker, Is Reviled by Jews — and Adored by Arabs ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Forward by Ben Lynfield - (Opinion) February 16, 2013 - 1:00am At the Knesset in West Jerusalem, she has been threatened, denounced as a terrorist and stripped of her parliamentary privileges. Israel’s new kingmaker, Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid, has cited her as the reason he would never join a coalition that depended on support from Israeli-Arab political parties. But at the Ambassador Hotel in East Jerusalem, chatting earnestly over a cup of espresso and a slice of cake, Haneen Zoabi is interrupted repeatedly by waves and smiles, and by requests by passers-by to have their picture taken with her. » Read more