What's the point of Israel's psychological warfare against Iran?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Avi Issacharoff - (Opinion) August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

Full disclosure: Maj.-Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, hasn’t spoken to me recently. Actually, he has never spoken to me at all. Nor has Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, or any other defense establishment officials in Tehran.

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The Israeli film that refuses to portray IDF soldiers as monsters or heroes
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Carlo Strenger - (Film Review) August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

David Grossman, in the introduction to his collection of non-fiction essays Death as a Way of Life, writes that beyond the sound, the fury and the grand political rhetoric, there is a silent place buried inside the soul of every Israeli and every Palestinian, where each one knows that this terrible conflict, in the end, is futile. Politicians are required to give the impression that they know where they are taking the country. Political commentators are supposed to make sense of events, and potentially suggest ways of action.

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Contesting history: A tale of two Tekoas
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
by Brandon Davis - (Opinion) August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

The Gush Herodion Development Corporation has big plans for Tekoa. Already boasting a pizza parlor, a swimming pool and a horse ranch, this idyllic "Jewish village" of approximately 1,600 will soon add six new buildings with eight "spacious" apartments each, designed by the architect Jacques Gabay.

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How the Arab Spring might help Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Miami Herald
by Frida Ghitis - (Opinion) August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

A few months ago, as I was speaking to a non-profit group about how developments in the Arab world would affect Israel, I noticed the faces in the crowd looking back at me with deep skepticism. I understood the reason. I was arguing that there is a possibility — not a certainty — that Israel will eventually emerge safer than before as a result of the Arab revolutions, also known as the Arab Spring. I have not changed my mind.

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Enlisting From Afar for the Love of Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Jodi Rudoren - August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Three days into Josh Warhit’s first-ever visit to Israel, as a 16-year-old on a summer tour, war broke out in Lebanon, which transformed the group’s itinerary — and his life plan. On Tuesday, with talk rampant about the possibility of an imminent Israeli attack on Iran, Mr. Warhit became a citizen of Israel to enlist in its army.

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Ambassador Oren: Israel's clock on Iran 'ticking faster' than Obama's
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Natasha Mozgovaya - August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

While White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday that the Obama Administration still believes that there is "time and space" for a diplomatic track, coupled with sanctions, to succeed in convincing Iranian leadership to stop the nuclear program, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren stressed in an interview to MSNBC that the Israeli clock "is ticking faster."

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Ex-Obama Official Warns: Take Israel Iran Threat 'Very Seriously'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor
by Laura Rozen - August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl traveled to Israel 13 times during his tenure as the Obama administration’s top Pentagon Middle East civilian policy advisor from 2009 to the end of 2011. Kahl, now a Georgetown University professor, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and foreign policy advisor to the Obama campaign, told Al-Monitor in an interview Tuesday that he takes the signs that Israeli leaders are contemplating a fall strike on Iran “very seriously.”

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On Laws and Walls
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Emily L. Hauser - (Opinion) August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

This past week, Israel’s Justice Ministry issued new regulations that, if implemented, will make it impossible for many Palestinians and all undocumented immigrants to file suit in Israeli courts.

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Israel plunged into unprecedented debate about war
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Amy Teibel - August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

To attack or not to attack? With Israeli politicians warning repeatedly that Iran is secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, this question has spawned an unprecedented amount of agonizing even in a country accustomed to war and incessant debate.

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Preserving Israel's Uncertain Status Quo
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Aaron David Miller - (Opinion) August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

If someone asked me to sum up in a sentence where Israel will be a decade from now, I’d paraphrase Dickens: It will be neither the best nor worst of times. The Israelis will prosper and keep their state, but the Arabs and Iranians will never let them completely enjoy it.

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