Israelis defend threatened Palestinian bookseller
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Maayan Lubell - April 5, 2011 - 12:00am

Leading Israeli authors have joined a campaign against the deportation of a Palestinian book shop owner, whose business in east Jerusalem has become a hub for diplomats, artists and academics from across the world. Jerusalem-born Munther Fahmi's residency was voided by Israel after he left in 1973 to study in the United States, where he acquired citizenship. For 18 years he has been living in Jerusalem intermittently, entering Israel on a tourist visa.

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Goldstone won't seek Gaza report nullification
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Steven R. Hurst - April 5, 2011 - 12:00am

South African jurist Richard Goldstone said Tuesday that he did not plan to seek nullification of his highly critical U.N. report on Israel's 2008-2009 offensive in the Gaza Strip and asserted that claims to the contrary by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai were false.

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Encountering Peace: Israelis vote yes
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) April 4, 2011 - 12:00am

Okay, so Israel has been exonerated from the allegations in the Goldstone Report. We can all breathe a sigh of relief. We now know for sure the IDF did not intentionally kill Palestinian noncombatants.

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As Israel perpetuates occupation, its youth sees little value in peace and freedom
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Carlo Strenger - (Blog) April 1, 2011 - 12:00am

A recent survey of the political opinion of Israeli youth shows a significant move to the right. More than sixty percent of 15 to 18 year olds and 21 to 24 year olds define themselves as rightwing; 60 percent of the first group prefers strong leaders to the rule of law; an overwhelming majority of the respondents do not believe that negotiations will lead to peace with Palestinians and prefer the status quo. The picture that emerges is of a profoundly pessimistic group that sees little reason for optimism – a group that prefers power over freedom and whose values are nationalistic.

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’Post’ poll: 43% of Israeli Jews satisfied with Netanyahu
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Gil Hoffman - April 1, 2011 - 12:00am

A significant majority of the Jewish Israeli public is dissatisfied with the performance of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, according to a Smith Research poll sponsored by The Jerusalem Post to coincide with Thursday’s second anniversary of the government’s formation. The poll of 500 adult Jewish Israelis representing a statistical sample of the population was taken Monday and Tuesday and had a margin of error of 4.5 percent.

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Citizenship laws in Israel cast its future in doubt
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
(Editorial) April 1, 2011 - 12:00am

In recent weeks, Israel's Knesset has passed a series of laws that make it clear there is only one kind of Israeli. Human Rights Watch has gone so far as to term the legislation, driven mainly by the hardline foreign minister Avidgor Leiberman, "race laws".

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'Digging his own grave'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
by George S. Hishmeh - (Opinion) April 1, 2011 - 12:00am

The wind of change that has been blowing in the Arab world, which saw the celebrated downfall of two autocratic Arab regimes, in Tunisia and Egypt, is still blowing hard in other Arab countries, especially Libya where the days of its ruler, Muammar Qadhafi, are believed numbered.

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Poll: Young Israelis moving much farther to the right politically
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Or Kashti - March 31, 2011 - 12:00am

Young Israelis are moving much further to the right politically, according to a survey to be released Thursday. The study found that 60 percent of Jewish teenagers in Israel, between 15 and 18 years old, prefer "strong" leaders to the rule of law, while 70 percent say that in cases where state security and democratic values conflict, security should come first. A similar picture emerges in the 21 to 24 age group. The comprehensive survey was conducted on behalf of Germany's Friedrich Ebert Foundation, in cooperation with the Macro Center for Political Economics, by the Dahaf Institute.

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We must stop the nationalist and racist Lieberman
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Eldad Yaniv - (Opinion) March 31, 2011 - 12:00am

Every one who fell for the "either Tzipi or Bibi" canard during the last elections had best not forget where those two, Benjamin (Bibi ) Netanyahu who is now Prime Minister and Tzipi Livni, who is now opposition leader, spent the night between Tuesday and Wednesday last week when the Israeli Knesset passed two controversial laws.

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Debunking the fascist libel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
(Editorial) March 31, 2011 - 12:00am

The term “fascist” has been bandied about quite freely by parliamentarians and public figures on the Left recently. MK Isaac Herzog, a candidate to lead Labor in the next elections, used the term during a conference organized by Peace Now in Tel Aviv last Friday to describe a series of legislative initiatives promoted primarily by Avigdor Lieberman’s Israel Beiteinu Party. Other prominent left-wing intellectuals, journalists and artists have lamented “reactionary” trends overtaking our society and being given expression in the Knesset.

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