Abbas expresses solidarity to Morsi of Egypt against terrorism
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 7, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed on Monday deep solidarity with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Egyptian people against terrorism.

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Egypt's Brotherhood blames Sinai raid on Israel's Mossad
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC World News
August 7, 2012 - 12:00am

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has accused the Israeli spy agency Mossad of being behind Sunday's attack on an Egyptian checkpoint on the border with Israel.

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Sinai tribes 'warned Egyptian government about jihadi threat'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 7, 2012 - 12:00am

Sinai tribes say they repeatedly warned the Egyptian government about a jihadi threat in the peninsula, before Sunday's attack which left 16 Egyptian police officers dead.

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“Dear President Perez”
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from NOW Lebanon
by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) August 7, 2012 - 12:00am

A major controversy erupted last week when Israel announced that Egyptian President Mohammad Morsy had sent a letter in reply to Ramadan greetings he had received from Israeli President Shimon Peres.

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The 'cruel revenge' that helped drive the British out of Palestine
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Ofer Aderet - (Opinion) August 7, 2012 - 12:00am

In July 1947, two British sergeants were being held in a narrow, closely-guarded bunker that had been dug underneath a diamond-polishing plant in Netanya. The two were captured by the Irgun, and the Jewish underground militia threatened to hang them unless the British commuted the death sentences of three Irgun operatives.

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“Dear President Perez”
In Print by Hussein Ibish - NOW Lebanon (Opinion) - August 7, 2012 - 12:00am

A major controversy erupted last week when Israel announced that Egyptian President Mohammad Morsy had sent a letter in reply to Ramadan greetings he had received from Israeli President Shimon Peres. Spokespersons for Morsy's office, his Freedom and Justice Party, and the Muslim Brotherhood issued angry denials, calling the reports “fabrications” and “lies” spread by the Israeli media in order to embarrass Egypt’s new Islamist president.

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Egypt Military: 'Elements from Gaza' involved in Rafah border attack
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ahram Online
August 6, 2012 - 12:00am

In a military audio statement aired on state television Monday afternoon, the armed forces presented their account of the deadly attack on the Egyptian-Israel border Sunday. "A terrorist group of 35 people attacked a border guard south of Rafah Sunday evening at 7pm, right around Ramadan Iftar time, where 16 of our soldiers were martyred and 7 injured; three of them severely injured. The terrorist group then took over an army Armed Personnel Carrier and used it to penetrate the Egypt-Israel border where Israeli forces destroyed it."

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Sinai Attack Tests New Egyptian President’s Relationship With Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Jodi Rudoren - August 6, 2012 - 12:00am

With the relationship between Egypt's new Islamist leader and Israel still in its fragile infancy, the terrorist attack on the border that the two countries share with Gaza over the weekend presented a critical opportunity — and a crucial test.

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Sinai attack seals up Gaza to outside world
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Ahmed Aldabba - August 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Although Islamic militant group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, has strongly condemned the killing of Egyptian guards at the border with Israel and Gaza yesterday,

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Syria’s Palestinians Seeking Help in Lebanon
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Stephen Staff - August 6, 2012 - 12:00am

On the streets of Hamra, a neighborhood of Beirut where young Lebanese men in expensive sports cars make their presence known by playing loud music, Syrian accents are clearly heard. They come from the young mothers begging for money and food on the sidewalks who have fled the violence that has racked their country, in what initially began as a peaceful uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Their children run and play in the streets of Hamra past well-heeled and fashionably-dressed Lebanese women.

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