Fatah, Hamas to meet in Cairo Feb. 19, official says
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
February 12, 2013 - 1:00am

Fatah and Hamas will meet in Cairo on Feb. 19 to continue reconciliation talks, a Fatah official said Tuesday. Sakhr Bseiso told Ma'an that the factions will meet under Egypt-mediation a day after the Central Elections Commission has finished updating the election register in Gaza. The rival factions met in Cairo to discuss reconciliation over the weekend, but reached no agreement on the formation of a unity government or on a revision of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

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PNA: Israel responsible for death of any hunger striker
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
February 12, 2013 - 1:00am

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on Tuesday shouldered Israel the responsibility for the life of hunger-striking prisoners. "Some of the hunger strikers reached a high level of danger and they could die anytime as their health deteriorating," said Ziad Abu Ein, deputy minister of prisoners' affairs. Six prisoners have gone into a hunger strike for different periods, with two -- Ayman Al-Sharawneh and Samer Issawi having been fasting since July and August, respectively.

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On My Mind: Peace expectations
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Kenneth Bandler - (Opinion) February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

With the Israeli-Palestinian peace process stuck in neutral for so long, any ostensibly positive development is assumed to signal a possible opportunity to advance. Some observers contend that Israel’s recent elections provide such a turning point. The New York Times, for instance, argued in an editorial that the results set the stage for a breakthrough in moribund peace negotiations.

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Palestinian panel starts updating voter registers
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

 

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Toward a New Palestinian Strategy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Ayyam
by Atef Abu Saif - February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

The deadlock in the Palestinian political scene is not a historical coincidence or the result of a single factor, but of many.

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A Middle-Class Paradise in Palestine?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Atlantic
by Armin Rosen - (Opinion) February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

The sole outlet to Rawabi sits off a dizzying two-lane highway flanked by round, scraggly hills. In this part of the West Bank, just north of where the Jerusalem suburbs thin into a dry, granite-gray wilderness, the mountains seem to aid in the illusion that Israeli and Palestinian spheres of authority can remain perfectly, even harmoniously separate.

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Witnesses: Settlers vandalize Hebron community center
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

 

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PA Employees in Gaza Key to Reconciliation
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor
by Omar Shaban - (Editorial) February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

In response to the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, the Palestinian Authority (PA) took several measures, all of which — according to their claims — aimed to render the Hamas government’s task of running the Gaza Strip impossible, and to push it to quickly be exposed and collapse.

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Only by fear of international sanctions
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Yitzhak Laor - (Opinion) February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

It's doubtful if there was such foolishness in global politics since World War II as the settlement enterprise. The fact that the Israeli political leadership has engaged in it since 1967 makes the pill all the more bitter.

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Oscar contender on Palestinians angers many
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Diaa Hadid - February 10, 2013 - 1:00am

 

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