PA says suspects in custody after colonel shot dead in Jenin
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
September 6, 2012 - 12:00am

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinian security services have detained suspects believed to be behind Wednesday's deadly shooting of a top security commander in Jenin, a security spokesman says. "There are some suspects who were detained for investigation, and there are security organizations working with us in the investigation process," Adnan al-Dmeiri said Thursday.

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Hamas training diplomats, challenging PLO monopoly abroad
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
September 6, 2012 - 12:00am

GAZA CITY (Reuters) -- Hamas has begun a training program for diplomats in the Gaza Strip where it rules, a senior official of the Islamist group said, raising the specter of divisions in the Palestinian national movement spreading to its representation abroad.

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French to exhume Arafat's remains
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
by Matthew Kalman - September 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Three French investigating magistrates will travel to Ramallah in the West Bank to exhume the remains of the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat so they can take tissue samples to determine what killed him.

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News Analysis: Tensions simmering in West Bank over high living cost
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
by Yang Lina - September 6, 2012 - 12:00am

RAMALLAH, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Protests against the high cost of living increasingly erupted all over the West Bank over the past few days, during which some demonstrators burned Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's posters while others attempted to set themselves ablaze.

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Will there be a Palestinian spring?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
by Ahmad Majdoubeh - (Opinion) September 6, 2012 - 12:00am

he possibility of a Palestinian spring may seem far-fetched at a first glance, yet upon careful consideration, it may be their only course out of the current paralysis.

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Eyesight for Israel’s blind
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
by Dominique Moisi - (Opinion) September 6, 2012 - 12:00am

To find a glimmer of hope on the Israel-Palestine question has become difficult, if not impossible. Most Israelis now believe that a peaceful solution will not come in their generation. As for the Palestinians, the political stalemate, and ongoing Israeli occupation, has led to radicalisation: if they cannot have “something”, they want it all.

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President says Palestinian Spring has begun
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
September 6, 2012 - 12:00am

CAIRO (Ma'an) -- President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that the "Palestinian Spring" had begun, as Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank in protest over rising prices. "The Palestinian spring has begun, and we are in line with what the people say and what they want," Abbas said, addressing a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo. The president said the protesters' demands to reduce costs of basic goods and for regular payment of salaries were "right and fair."

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Study: Gap grows between Israeli Arabs, Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Ilene Prusher - September 5, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinians in the West Bank and Israeli Arabs show increasing signs of wanting to keep their distance from each other, and maintain different narratives about the history of the conflict, according to a new study conducted by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers. Among some of the findings that researchers found most remarkable, 60 percent of Israeli Arabs surveyed said they would not want their daughter to marry someone from the West Bank, while 41% of West Bankers had the same attitude to their daughter marrying an Arab with Israeli citizenship.

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Fayyad to face youth leader in televised debate
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
September 5, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad will participate Wednesday in a debate with Muhannad al-Rabi, director of the Free Palestinian Youth Coalition, broadcast live on Palestinian TV. Al-Rabi said the coalition would deliver a message from the Palestinian youth, mainly on social and economic issues. He hoped the debate would result in solutions for the youth sector. The youth leader thanked Fayyad for agreeing to the debate, which is being held in cooperation with Al-Najah University in Nablus and will be shown on various Palestinian TV networks.

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Hamas seeks to enter the world of diplomacy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Asharq Alawsat
by Saleh al-Naami - (Opinion) September 5, 2012 - 12:00am

  Gaza Asharq Al-Awsat – For the first time since the 2007 division between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, following the bloody confrontation between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority [PA] and Hamas’s subsequent takeover of the Gaza Strip, the Hamas government is seeking to appoint diplomats. This is a move that many believe is an indication that Hamas intends to announce an independent state in the Gaza Strip.

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