October 11th, 2012

Israel targets militant site in north Gaza ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency October 11, 2012 - 12:00am GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Israel launched an airstrike on Thursday morning at a site belonging to resistance factions in the northern Gaza Strip, a Ma'an correspondent said. An Israeli aircraft launched one missile toward the site in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood north of the Gaza strip, with no injuries reported. The airstrikes caused material damages. The Israeli army said the attack came as a response for a rocket that was fired overnight toward Netivot in the western Negev that caused material damage. » Read more

Palestinian voters skeptical about value of elections ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Los Angeles Times by Edmund Sanders - October 10, 2012 - 12:00am HEBRON, West Bank — Stumping for votes in the first Palestinian election since 2006, Hebron City Council aspirant Maysoun Qawasmi strides into a plastics factory to promote the West Bank's first all-female political party. The 43-year-old candidate begins wooing executives, listening to workers' concerns and promising reform. She predicts that her list of candidates will shake up the conservative Islamist-leaning city, where women rarely take center stage. » Read more

U.S., Israel to launch massive air defense drill ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua October 11, 2012 - 12:00am JERUSALEM, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. and Israeli militaries are engaged in final preparations for the largest-ever joint missile defense drill in the allies' history. The three-week exercise, dubbed Austere Challenge 12 (AC12), will start on Oct. 21, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday, citing an army source. » Read more

October 10th

Arab Spring and the Israeli enemy ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News by Abdulateef Al-Mulhim - (Opinion) October 6, 2012 - 12:00am Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war between the Arabs and Israel broke out. The war lasted only 20 days. The two sides were engaged in two other major wars, in 1948 and 1967. » Read more

Enough Already ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by Aaron David Miller - (Opinion) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am Once every four years, rational, right-thinking Americans get crazy. Election ads clearly hype up an already polarized electorate. And right about now, on the hot-button issues of the day -- debt, deficit, who's leading from behind in foreign policy and who's not -- many Americans seem to lose the capacity to think for themselves. » Read more

New Film Explores Israeli, Arab Views on Sex With the ‘Other’ ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Sophie Claudet - (Interview) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am PARIS — It all started when Yolande Zauberman and her partner in life and work, Selim Nassib, began to work on a screenplay of Nassib’s novel, The Palestinian Lover, which tells the story of an alleged, passionate affair between Golda Meir and a rich Arab banker in then British-administered Palestine. » Read more

Israel Can Deter Iran ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Reuven Pedatzur - (Opinion) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am The failure of Israeli policymaking with regards to the Iranian nuclear threat is rooted in the fact that Israeli leaders are completely ignoring the need to discuss Israel’s policy in the event that Iran succeeds in equipping itself with nuclear weapons. In all the discussions taking place in the closed forums led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the focus is on one question alone: whether or not to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities. » Read more

The miraculous October 1973 victory ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Asharq Alawsat by Emad El Din Adeeb - (Opinion) September 10, 2012 - 12:00am I find it particularly painful when some of my colleagues show a lack of appreciation for the victorious October 1973 war; a miraculous humanitarian and military victory by any standards. » Read more

Zionist fantacide ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) October 9, 2012 - 12:00am A day doesn’t go by when I am not asked “isn’t the two-state solution dead?” Today I was asked twice. A former staunch Israeli supporter of this solution called me this evening and said he wanted to begin talking to Palestinians about other options because “it is too late to move the settlers out of the West Bank, they are there to stay and we have to find some way to live together.” » Read more

61 seats - mission possible ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Sefi Rachlevsky - (Opinion) October 10, 2012 - 12:00am A year ago, in private conversations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak marked the winter of 2013 as the time for elections - and not because of the budget. The reason was U.S. President Barack Obama. Netanyahu wanted Obama to have as little time as possible to take revenge on him. The thing is, now Republican candidate Mitt Romney might win. To risk losing eight months with him as president - months so decisive for a war with Iran - is a tough gamble for Netanyahu. » Read more