Thank you, Mr. Sherman
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) July 9, 2012 - 12:00am

I would like to thank Martin Sherman for his scathing attack against me in his article "The honorable thing to do" (Jerusalem Post, July 6, 2012). Although I agree with Sherman’s criticism of President Shimon Peres’s last speech, that it is wrong not to learn from the failures of the Oslo process, it is a great honor to be attacked together with our president and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

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Report on outposts' legality states Israel isn't an occupying force in West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chaim Levinson - July 9, 2012 - 12:00am

A report by a committee formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to examine the legal aspects of West Bank land ownership recommended to sanction all Israeli outposts, rejecting the claim that Israel's presence in the territory is that of an occupying force. The Levy Committee, headed by former court vice president Edmond Levy, recommends a fundamental change in the legal regime in the West Bank, including the annulment of a long list of laws, High Court of Justice Rulings and procedures in order to permit Jews to settle in all of Judea and Samaria.

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Israeli policemen jailed over death of Palestinian
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Maayan Lubell - July 9, 2012 - 12:00am

An Israeli court on Monday sentenced two policemen to 30 months in jail each over the death of a Palestinian detainee whom they abandoned on the side of a highway in the middle of the night. In 2008, Omar Abu Jarban was hospitalised for two weeks in Israel after entering illegally and crashing a car he had stolen, Jerusalem Magistrate's Court said in its ruling. After being discharged, Israel ordered him deported rather than prosecuted, but two days later he was found dead, apparently of dehydration, just over the boundary of the occupied West Bank.

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Israel’s Arab Spring problem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by David Ignatius - (Opinion) July 9, 2012 - 12:00am

Whatever else that might be said about the Arab revolutions, it’s obvious that they pose a problem for Israel. But how bad, and what should the Israeli government do to hedge its risks? I heard some interesting — but not very encouraging — ideas on this subject from top government officials last week.

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The Israelis' quest to poison Yasser Arafat
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News
by Uri Avnery - (Opinion) July 9, 2012 - 12:00am

For me, there was no surprise. From the very first day, I was convinced that Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by Ariel Sharon. I even wrote about it several times. It was a simple logical conclusion. First, a thorough medical examination in the French military hospital where he died did not find any cause for his sudden collapse and death. No traces of any life-threatening disease were found.

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The West Bank: If It's Not Occupation, Then What Is It?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Atlantic
by Jeffrey Goldberg - (Opinion) July 9, 2012 - 12:00am

Haaretz is reporting that a committee appointed by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to explore the legal status of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, has come to the conclusion that Israel is not an occupying force:

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Reality Check
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Jeff Barak - (Opinion) July 8, 2012 - 12:00am

The decision facing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is really quite simple: either do what’s best for the country or just tread water and survive another year in office. The first choice requires courage; the second demands nothing beyond the competence of any third-rate politician. Any guesses as to which path our prime minister will choose? Hint: At the very last second, just before the Knesset was about to disperse in May, Netanyahu chose to expand his coalition by throwing a lifeline to a sinking Kadima rather than risk facing the voters.

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Reality Check: Netanyahu refuses to seize the day
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Jeff Barak - (Opinion) July 8, 2012 - 12:00am

The decision facing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is really quite simple: either do what’s best for the country or just tread water and survive another year in office. The first choice requires courage; the second demands nothing beyond the competence of any third-rate politician. Any guesses as to which path our prime minister will choose? Hint: At the very last second, just before the Knesset was about to disperse in May, Netanyahu chose to expand his coalition by throwing a lifeline to a sinking Kadima rather than risk facing the voters.

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Time for Israel to join the world
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Hirsh Goodman - (Opinion) July 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Israelis in particular and Jews in general love to complain about how much the world hates us, as if the hatred of others is what makes Israel legitimate. It is time to move on, to take the victimhood out of the modern Jewish state, now approaching 65, and to live our lives without constantly having to explain ourselves to others, or to seek their approval.

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Israelis, Not MEK, Killed Iranian Scientists, New Book Says
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor
by Barbara Slavin - (Analysis) July 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Israelis, not Iranians working for Israel, killed five Iranian scientists connected to Iran’s nuclear program between 2007 and 2011 according to a new book by veteran US and Israeli journalists.

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