It’s time for Barak to go
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Jay Bushinsky - (Opinion) May 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Despite his frequent flights to Washington, D.C., Defense Minister Ehud Barak seems to be out of step politically with his American hosts. One day after he declared that Syrian President Bashar Assad (personally) will have to step down because of the ongoing revolt against his regime, but that his regime can remain in power, the US State Department said the incumbent Syrian regime would have to go too.

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Sporting pathways to coexistence
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Uri Savir - (Opinion) May 25, 2012 - 12:00am

There is much talk in Israel these days, and it is quite justified, about violence and racism in sports. Yet I believe that while these ugly phenomena must be eradicated, sport is globally, and also here, an important pathway to coexistence, integration and social cohesion. In ancient Greece, it was decided that during the Olympic sporting events, there would be a total truce. Sport became then the symbol of peaceful coexistence and for a different type of human relations: competition according to agreed-upon rules and values.

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Israel's politics of nothing
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Tzipi Livni - (Opinion) May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Espouse the vacuous, the hollow slogan; appropriate the show, the gestures. Lose the content, the vision and the values. Do not let a position or an opinion stand in your way, pick-pocket the opinions of others before they take your idea first. Conduct public opinion polls and tell the masses what they want to hear. Do nothing, because in any case it is unnecessary.

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Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Yousef Munayyer - (Opinion) May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

I’M a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles apart, we met almost 6,000 miles away in Massachusetts, where we attended neighboring colleges.

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Author of 'The Invention of the Jewish People' vents again
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Dalia Karpel - (Opinion) May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

The concept of homeland is one of the most amazing and also, perhaps, one of the most ruinous of the modern era, says Prof. Shlomo Sand. In his new book, “When and How Was the Land of Israel Invented?” ‏(Kineret, Zmora-Bitan Dvir, Hebrew‏), Sand examines the attitude of the Zionist movement toward that territory since its inception. More particularly, he is out to discover how Zionism adopted the idea...


Israeli peace movement to launch online university
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — Organizers of an online Mideast peace movement say they are launching the Internet's first university for Israelis and Arabs across the Middle East Former Israeli peace negotiator Uri Savir, founder of the "Yala Young Leaders" movement, says the group's "Online Academy" will offer students courses in government, social networks, communications and skill development.

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Legislating the Refugee Problem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Lara Friedman - (Opinion) May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

You have to laugh, or it would make you cry. That is, if you are someone who genuinely cares about Israel and believes that the two-state solution is the only thing that can save Israel as a democracy and a Jewish state, and that can end the occupation and permit the Palestinians to live, finally, as a free people with dignity and self-determination.

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Israelis brace for more ethnic strife in south Tel Aviv
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
by Gur Salomon - May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Israeli police beefed up forces in south Tel Aviv on Thursday, just hours after a protest against African migrants residing in the city turned violent. Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch is weighing plans to bolster Tel Aviv District Police with Border Police units which are largely deployed in the West Bank, the Yediot Aharonot daily reported, to assist Tel Aviv District Police in confronting crimes and thwarting reprisal attacks against the Africans.

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An African migrant's plea for a few basic rights
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Adam Ibrahim - (Opinion) May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

I live in the Shapira neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Unfortunately, what is currently happening in the neighborhood is intolerable. I have a friend who was told last Friday by two individuals that they were police officers in civilian clothing, who then proceeded to push him and steal 700 shekels from him. The police, of course, did not even deal with it. I think the Israelis do not treat us well, and then due to their guilt they come complaining about us.

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Command and Control
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy
by Olivia Holt-Ivry, David Makovsky - (Opinion) May 23, 2012 - 12:00am

This week, the world's major powers resumed negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Should they fail, the specter of a possible Israeli strike looms large, seeming to grow more likely as Tehran's nuclear program advances. 

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