Meet the Israelis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) October 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Nice to make your acquaintance, we're racist and pro-apartheid. The poll whose results were published in Haaretz on Tuesday, conducted by Dialog and commissioned by the Yisraela Goldblum Fund, proved what we always knew, if not so bluntly. It's important to recognize the truth that has been thrown in our faces and those of the world (where the survey is making waves ). But it's even more important to draw the necessary conclusions from it.

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Netanyahu Announces Coalition With a Nationalist Party
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - October 25, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced Thursday that his conservative Likud Party would run on a joint ticket with the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu Party in January elections. The surprise joining of forces immediately shook up Israel’s political map and was apparently intended to cement Mr. Netanyahu’s chances of leading the next government.

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High Court bans work on separation fence near West Bank farming village
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Nir Hasson - October 24, 2012 - 12:00am

An injunction against beginning work on the separation fence between Israel and the West Bank in the area of the village of Batir was issued by the High Court of Justice Tuesday. The injunction followed a petition to the court by villagers, who say its construction would threaten ancient agricultural terraces and contravene a historic agreement made after the 1948 war.

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Liberman vows to emphasize Jewish refugee issue
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Jeremy Sharon - October 24, 2012 - 12:00am

“We will not give up on this goal,” Liberman told representatives from the Central Organization for Jews from Arab Countries and Iran on Tuesday afternoon in reference recent developments on his ministry’s efforts to bring the issue of Jewish refugee rights to public and diplomatic attention.

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Support for Netanyahu not to be affected by Gaza region fighting
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
by Adam Gonn - (Analysis) October 24, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is standing for re-election on Jan. 22 next year and most polls indicate that his Likud party would become the largest party in Knesset (parliament) and that he would form the next government.

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Lesson in arrogance
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Hagai Segal - (Opinion) October 24, 2012 - 12:00am

The fascinating turnarounds in the US election campaign should have been an important lesson in humility for Likud, but instead the ruling party's arrogance is reaching new heights. It has learned nothing from the sad case of Obama, who in one debate managed to lose his significant lead in the polls.

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The Spymaster
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy
by Aaron David Miller - (Interview) October 24, 2012 - 12:00am

In December 1998, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sent me to Israel and the West Bank to monitor the first phase of the recently concluded Wye River Memorandum, a soon-to-be-forgotten agreement President Bill Clinton had brokered between then Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Survey: Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid regime in Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gideon Levy - October 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Most of the Jewish public in Israel supports the establishment of an apartheid regime in Israel if it formally annexes the West Bank. A majority also explicitly favors discrimination against the state's Arab citizens, a survey shows. The survey, conducted by Dialog on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, exposes anti-Arab, ultra-nationalist views espoused by a majority of Israeli Jews. The survey was commissioned by the Yisraela Goldblum Fund and is based on a sample of 503 interviewees.

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Apartheid without shame or guilt
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) October 23, 2012 - 12:00am

As elections draw near, the season of public opinion surveys is upon us. But here is a survey that is more disturbing and significant in its revelations than those informing us whether Yair Lapid is taking off or Ehud Barak is crashing in the polls. This one lays bare an image of Israeli society, and the picture is a very, very sick one. Now it is not just critics at home and abroad, but Israelis themselves who are openly, shamelessly, and guiltlessly defining themselves as nationalistic racists.

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How Israel dug its own grave in Lebanon
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Akiva Eldar - (Editorial) October 23, 2012 - 12:00am

A former high-ranking intelligence officer in Beirut has written a book documenting four decades of bloody misdeeds and shameful acts perpetrated by the Israel Defense Forces. Among them, he accuses the Defense Ministry of abandoning members of the South Lebanon Army who came to live in Israel following the withdrawal from Lebanon.

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