In Israel, No Women Are Deciding Matters of National Security
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Yedioth Ahronoth
by Rachel Dolev - (Opinion) August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

"The prime minister, the defense minister and the foreign minister each have their own specific authorities; there is the forum of nine ministers and there is the Cabinet and the decision, when it has to be made, will be made by the government of Israel – that's the way it has always been and that's the way it should be; not any group of citizens is going to dictate the decision nor even any press editorial." Thus said (Israeli) Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the special parliamentary session convened to approve the appointment of Avi Dichter as home front defense mi

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Israeli attack goes to heart of society in crisis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
(Editorial) August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

When they were taken into court in handcuffs, the Israeli boys and girls who came close to committing murder tried to hide their faces, shielding themselves from the glare of the cameras. Yet the media coverage has been relentless and has starkly exposed the violence that pervades so much of Israeli society.

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Integration of migrants' children into schools harms Israeli students, state says
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Talia Nesher - August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Immigrant children should be separated from others in the school system, the Education Ministry believes, according to the State Prosecution’s appeal to the Supreme Court submitted earlier this week. The state appealed against the Be’er Sheva District Court, which had ordered Eilat two weeks ago to admit the children of African asylum-seekers to city schools.

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Barak says Lieberman’s letter calling for Abbas’ ouster harms Israeli interests
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

In closed discussions Wednesday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak sharply criticized Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s letter to foreign ministers from the Middle East Quartet, calling for Palestinian Authority elections to replace PA President Mahmoud Abbas. “This letter harms Israeli national interests, and will aggravate circumstances with the Palestinians. This is deeply misguided policy,” Barak stated in the private discussion.

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A minister who’s a ticking bomb
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
(Editorial) August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has apparently decided to break his long silence and no longer spare the Israeli public and the world from his opinions. In his letter to the Middle East Quartet, as reported in Wednesday’s Haaretz, Lieberman calls for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas − whom he says is “personally acting to undermine” the peace process − to be removed and replaced in new PA elections.

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Liberman’s letter
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
(Editorial) August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

In a letter to the Middle East Quartet – the US, UN, EU and Russia – Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called for long overdue Palestinian elections that would oust Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Liberman went on to enumerate a list of positive Israeli gestures toward the PA, which have been answered by the Palestinian leadership with legal and diplomatic warfare, instead of constructive dialogue.

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Two-faced occupier
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
(Opinion) August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was once a nightclub bouncer in Soviet Moldova, born and raised outside Israel. He is a settler par excellence and in the perfect position for somebody with the track record of premier Benjamin Netanyahu to appoint him as foreign minister, in order to use him as the front man for any dirty work.

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FM: Abbas engaging in political terrorism
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Khaled Abu Toameh, Herb Keinon - August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman stepped up his campaign against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, saying not only is Abbas engaged in “diplomatic terror” against Israel, but he is also not in a position to make commitments for the Palestinians. Liberman’s highly critical comments in an Israel Radio interview came just four days after he sent a letter to the Quartet calling for new elections in the PA and the replacement of Abbas.

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Israel Needs to Step Up Fight Against Jewish 'Settler Terrorism'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Yedioth Ahronoth
by Roni Shaked - (Opinion) August 22, 2012 - 12:00am

Given the relative lull of Palestinian terror in Judea and Samaria and the fact that the General Security Service, better known as Shin Bet, has less on its plate, one might have expected [Shin Bet chief] Yoram Cohen’s troops to step up efforts to scuttle rampant Jewish terror that could stoke a third intifada.

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Netanyahu distances himself from Lieberman's call to oust Abbas
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - August 22, 2012 - 12:00am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday distanced himself from the letter penned by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to the Mideast Quartet, which called for the removal of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "The Foreign Minister's letter does not represent the position of the prime minister or that of the government," said a senior official in Netanyahu's office.

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