World Bank says Palestinian economy unsustainable
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

The Palestinian economy's recent growth is unsustainable because of its heavy reliance on foreign aid, a World Bank report said Wednesday.

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Israel advances PA NIS 180m. to ease finance crisis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Herb Keinon - July 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel, in a “goodwill gesture” to the Palestinian Authority, gave Ramallah over the last few days a NIS 180 million advance on tax money it transfers on a monthly basis, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The money was transferred before Ramadan, which began Friday, to help the PA – currently in the midst of a severe financial crisis – pay the monthly salaries of public sector employees.

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Palestinian Financial Crisis Boosts Support for Hamas
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Mohammed Najib - July 22, 2012 - 12:00am

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is suffering an intensifying financial crisis that is threatening its stability and strengthening the rival Islamist Hamas. Palestinian security officials warn that if the international community fails to pay its pledges to the PA, it will not be able to pay salaries in the coming months.

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Israel plans to revive ailing Jordan river
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Ari Rabinovitch - July 19, 2012 - 12:00am

The River Jordan is neither deep nor wide these days. The Biblical river, which has inspired countless spirituals and folk songs, is just a narrow stream in many parts - polluted and stagnant. But that's about to change. Thanks to desalination and wastewater recycling, there is more fresh water to go around and the Jordan will slowly be returned to its former glory.

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Palestinian PM asks U.S. help to overcome fiscal crisis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
July 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Monday asked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for help to overcome the fiscal crisis the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is going through. Omer al-Ghoul, an aid to Fayyad, told Xinhua that Fayyad urged Clinton to intervention in the donor countries to fulfill their financial commitments pledged to the PNA, adding that "Clinton gave positive promises in this respect."

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Uprooting Palestinian trees - and lives
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amira Hass - July 16, 2012 - 12:00am

The hummer and the jeep screeched to a halt on the path in the olive grove. The soldiers bravely climbed out of the vehicles, and proceeded toward the unknown. Armed and determined, they cleared their way through thorns, stones and rusty barrels; they headed toward the suspicious figures. Within a few minutes, the soldiers received reinforcements. Another hummer appeared on the scene, and its soldiers climbed out of it, armed and determined. Behind them the Swiss red rooftops of the Nachliel settlement jutted into the skyline. Standing before them was a group of thirty people.

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The Palestinian Authority under pressure
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from CNN
by Lucky Gold - (Opinion) July 16, 2012 - 12:00am

We have been facing serious financial difficulties for more than two years CNN – Can the stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority be revived by the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the region? On Monday, Christiane Amanpour sat down with Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Prime Minister, in his Ramallah office on the West Bank, where he expressed serious doubts – not only about the peace talks but about the very existence of the Palestinian Authority he represents:

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Palestinian businessmen searching for new markets
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Abdullah Omar - July 9, 2012 - 12:00am

From furniture to cosmetics to food, dozens of Palestinian companies are seeking new markets in Jordan. Fifty seven Palestinian companies, including seven from Gaza, were in Amman this week for the first-ever exhibition in Jordan to find local partners and boost investment in the Palestinian territories.

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Boosting Arab employment
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Kenneth Bandler - (Opinion) July 9, 2012 - 12:00am

How to improve the economic conditions of minority populations is a challenge for any democracy, all the more so for one as young as Israel. The country’s non-governmental organizations devoted to advancing Jewish-Arab relations have long advocated concrete steps to integrate citizens into the nation’s workforce. In recent years some government officials have for measures to increase the numbers of qualified Arab workers.

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Palestine: A hostage state
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News
(Editorial) July 6, 2012 - 12:00am

he tragedy of the Palestinians has hung like a black cloud over the Arab world for almost 65 years. It is inconceivable that a people should be corralled like animals in their own country by a dominant, nuclear-armed neighbor, backed, through thick and thin, by a superpower. Yet that is what Israelis have done to the Palestinians. Moreover, there has been systematic theft of Arab land in the Occupied Territories, as a way of imprisoning the luckless Palestinians still further.

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