A Palestinian return to a just Intifada
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
(Editorial) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Stones have always served Palestinians better than rifles and bombs. The First Intifada beginning in 1987 was the first demonstration of mass resistance. Boycotts and strikes were employed, and clashes on the ground were marked by stone-throwing Palestinian youth. Al Aqsa Intifada, from 2000 to 2005, is on the other hand remembered for a spiral of suicide bombings and pitched battles with the Israeli military.

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Memorial Vandalized
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Vandals spray-painted graffiti overnight Monday on the walls of Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, with messages attacking Zionism and blaming Zionists for the Holocaust. Nearly a dozen messages were scrawled around the Warsaw Ghetto Square monument and other parts of the campus.

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Israel begins rounding up African migrants
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Josef Federman - June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli authorities detained dozens of African migrants in predawn raids early Monday, in the first major step toward what leaders say will be deportation of 4,500 people who have entered the country illegally. The arrests were the harshest move yet against migrants, reflecting growing concern about the effect on Israel of tens of thousands of Africans who have sneaked into the country across the porous Egyptian border in recent years.

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Hard Questions, Tough Answers with Yossi Alpher
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Americans For Peace Now
(Interview) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Yossi Alpher visited the Peace Now offices in DC last week, as Israel marked 45 years since the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem were captured in the Six-Day War. 

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Israelis, learn Arabic
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Yaron Friedman - (Opinion) June 10, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli students are obligated to take English and Hebrew exams, but not Arabic (which is an official language in Israel.) Arabic studies for Hebrew-speaking students are mandatory only until ninth grade, and one can choose to study French or another language instead. Indeed, most Israeli students do not take the Arabic matriculation exam.

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Israelis unite in call to release jailed spy Pollard
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
June 10, 2012 - 12:00am

In the largest public campaign to date, tens of thousands of Israelis have signed a petition calling on President Shimon Peres to leverage his diplomatic stature in order to secure the freedom of Jonathan Pollard, a former intelligence analyst jailed in a U.S. prison for the past 27 years on charges of spying for Israel. Peres on Saturday night departed on a six-day trip to the United States, where U.S. President Barack Obama will award him later in the week the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the most prestigious civilian honor bestowed by the U.S. administration.

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Israel court clears deporting South Sudan migrants
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Omri Efraim - June 8, 2012 - 12:00am

The Administrative Court in Jerusalem rejected on Thursday an appeal filed by human rights groups against Interior Minister Eli Yishai's decision to lift the "collective protection" previously afforded to asylum seekers from South Sudan.

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Netanyahu 1, settlers 0
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Sima Kadmon - (Opinion) June 8, 2012 - 12:00am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory in the vote on the settlement regularization bill is not just a numerical win. It was also a moral win, because he taught the settlers an important lesson on the limits of power.

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Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Jay Bushinsky - (Opinion) June 8, 2012 - 12:00am

Invariably, it seems that Defense Minister Ehud Barak says one thing and the US State Department immediately contradicts him. At the end of his latest visit to Washington, where he conferred with his American counterpart, Leon Panetta, and other senior US officials, the former IDF chief of staff and prime minister raised the possibility of a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank.

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1967 has been bad for Palestinians and Israelis alike
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Hill
by Hanan Ashrawi - (Opinion) June 8, 2012 - 12:00am

Forty-five years ago this week, catastrophe befell the Palestinian people for the second time in as many decades, when Israel occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip during the 1967 War. Nearly half a century later, the catastrophe continues, as millions of Palestinians still live under Israeli military rule, denied the most basic civil and political rights, while their land is relentlessly colonized with illegal, Jewish-only settlements that are destroying their hopes for the future.

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