Arab camp kids humiliated in Jerusalem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Tal Rabinovsky - July 16, 2009 - 12:00am

A group of Arab summer camp children were banned from entering Temple Mount in Jerusalem while wearing their camp t-shirts. When the children arrived at Temple Mount wearing their orange summer camp shirt, which read ''Al-Quds – Arab Culture Capital,' police officers told them that if they wish to enter, the shirts must come off. The incident took place Tuesday when children from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Tzur Baher toured Jerusalem's Old City as part of their summer camp activities. However, what should have been an enjoyable day out quickly became a humiliating experience.

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Phase I of Beit Ur Al Tahta Project Complete
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from American Charities for Palestine
July 14, 2009 - 12:00am

American Charities for Palestine (ACP) is pleased to announce the completion of phase one of a joint infrastructure project in the West Bank village of Beit Ur al Tahta. CHF International is implementing the construction work in the area, which includes sidewalk and road electrification projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with ACP and funding from the Sheikh Mohammed Shami Foundation. USAID provided $250,000 through the Emergency Jobs Program (EJP) to the project.

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Playing for Peace: Palestinian and Israeli Teenagers Groove
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Matthew Kalman - July 12, 2009 - 12:00am

An unusual scene in Tel Aviv: Palestinian and Israeli teenagers – Christians, Muslims and Jews – have just spent two weeks together recording a music track, writing their own lyric and producing a video clip to upload to YouTube. The 19 youngsters, aged from 14 to 17, gathered at the headquarters of Windows for Peace, a veteran people-to-people organization that tries to bridge the gaps between Israeli and Palestinian youth through workshops, a regular magazine in Hebrew and Arabic, and other joint activities.

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Gaza's children struggle with memories of war
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Agence France Presse (AFP)
by Patrick Moser - July 10, 2009 - 12:00am

Fourteen-year-old Ghasan Matar won't talk about the explosion that cost him his legs and killed his brother. In fact, six months after the end of the Israeli war on Gaza, he still barely talks at all. He spends most of his time staring at the walls and a huge poster depicting his older brother against a bloody background of war featuring a Kalashnikov assault rifle and dead Israeli soldiers.

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Jerusalem streets marked by signs of conflict
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Erika Soloman - July 8, 2009 - 12:00am

Ilana Sichel held a ladder steady for her Israeli boyfriend Romy Achituv while he slapped a white sticker over the defaced Arabic script on a battered yellow sign in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem. The sticker, typed out by Sichel in Arabic, says, "Danger of Death," as does the English and Hebrew alongside it. "It could seem like we're vandalizing," Sichel mused as Achituv stepped away from the electric pole. "Well, I guess technically we are."

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What demographic problem?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Yair Lapid - (Opinion) July 7, 2009 - 12:00am

At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth, yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.

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The difference a "comedian, actress, activist and dancing gimp” can make
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
by Deema Dabis - July 6, 2009 - 12:00am

"I think that the biggest difference I make is that I actually show people that a disabled person can be members of society. "They look at me and they go woah, she walks funny but she seems to have all this power and she has no fear and her eyes are always looking straight ahead, she doesn't look down,” said founder of Maysoon’s Kids, Maysoon Zaayid. “I want people to think that hey, if I can do that, there is hope for my kid.”

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Editorial: The Gaza ghetto
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News
(Editorial) June 30, 2009 - 12:00am

THE report on life in Gaza just issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross six months after the brutal Israeli attacks which killed between 1,100 and 1,400 people makes bitter reading.

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Big screen returns to West Bank town
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
by Omar Karmi - June 30, 2009 - 12:00am

Mustafa Odeh, 75, remembers well when there last was a cinema in Nablus. “Those were different days,” he said in front of his tiny plumbing repair shop in the centre of the city. “There were no satellite dishes, not many TVs, no 300 different channels. The cinema was good then.” And it would still be today, or so believe two local businessmen who last week opened a brand new commercial screen in the centre of the city just around the corner from Mr Odeh’s shop.

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Israeli shackling of detainees 'torture'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Agence France Presse (AFP)
June 24, 2009 - 12:00am

Israeli security forces' shackling of Palestinian prisoners is frequently cruel and humiliating and in a number of instances constitutes "torture," a rights group said Wednesday. The army and the internal security forces "shackle detainees in painful and humiliating manners that, in a number of instances, rise to the level of torture," the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) said. The group published its findings in a report based on 547 cases of arrests and dozens of interrogations conducted over the past year.

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