The Munich massacre: A survivor's story
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from CNN
by James Montague - (Interview) July 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Professor Shaul Ladany has a busy schedule to keep these days but lays down one important condition before agreeing to speak to CNN. "Every morning I roll up the carpet and do my exercises," he explains.

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Ehud Barak is the only leader who can take on Netanyahu
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Aluf Benn - (Opinion) July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

Benjamin Netanyahu is in trouble. He missed the opportunity to push forward the election at the high point of his popularity and now his leadership is flagging. The ruse to split Kadima failed and exposed the prime minister's predicament. The Likud is returning to its extreme-right roots, as the party of the settlers and their sycophants. The recession is here and the cabinet is forced to raise taxes and cut back services. The controversy over the draft law has shown Netanyahu as a collaborator with the ultra-Orthodox draft-dodgers.

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Debate Aversion Therapy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

The one thing almost all observers agree on is that progress towards realizing a two-state solution is on indefinite hold for the foreseeable future. This means we are facing an open-ended interregnum that all parties can use to seriously debate their options and to act unilaterally to either promote or obstruct peace.

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Mapping Judaism
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Economist
July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Mapping the world's Jewish population and migration patterns

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Why Israel’s Right will stay in power
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Carlo Strenger - (Opinion) July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Over the last weekend the New York Times published an editorial entitled "Israel's embattled democracy" that expresses concern that Israel may be distancing itself from the liberal democratic principles on which it was founded. Of course, Jewish right-wing groups, both in Israel and the US, will point out that the NYT is anti-Israel, and that therefore we can simply disregard what they say.

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What if Rabin Had Lived?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'ariv
by Ben Caspit - (Opinion) July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

This week 20 years ago, Yitzhak Rabin's government was sworn in to the Knesset. Following the defeat of the Likud, Yitzhak Shamir retired permanently from political life. Rabin had prepared meticulously for his rise to power.

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Levy Commission: Concerned By ‘Misuse’ Of Report
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Week
by Stewart Ain - (Opinion) July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

The Levy Commission report that earlier this month found Israelis have the legal right to settle in the West Bank is being twisted and distorted by those here who are on both sides of the issue, according to its authors.

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Golan Heights provides glimpse of Syria civil war
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Blake Sobczak - July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

As Syrian regime forces clash with rebels close to the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, this windswept plateau has become a front-row seat to Syria's escalating civil war.

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It's the Iranian war, stupid
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Yossi Verter - (Opinion) July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Shaul Mofaz is thoroughly convinced that the late night cable in the Prime Minister's Office between Benjamin Netanyahu and Tzachi Hanegbi, which was exposed the following morning, had one goal: to set the stage in the Likud party for Hanegbi's inclusion in the government, and give Netanyahu a majority, in a vote on an Iran attack.

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Israel confronts a flood of African refugees
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Ruth Marcus - (Opinion) July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Walk through Levinsky Park near the central bus station here and you might think you were in another country. African men, and some women, occupy every inch of a low stone bench in the brutal sun. Blankets are stashed in the branches of a eucalyptus tree, to be retrieved at nightfall.

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