Salam Fayyad: 'We have never been more marginalised'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
by Donald MacIntyre - (Opinion) July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

The cause of the Palestinians has never been more "marginalised" than it is today, according to a warning by their internationally respected Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

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Syrian army 'bombs Palestine Hospital'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday bombed a hospital in Damascus' Yarmouk refugee camp, Palestinian sources told Ma'an. 

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In shift by Egypt, president meets Hamas leader
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Tom Perry - July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

Gaza Islamist leader Ismail Haniyeh met Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Thursday in an official visit that signalled a big shift in Cairo's stance toward the Hamas movement after the election of a Muslim Brotherhood head of state in Egypt. A Palestinian official said the head of Egyptian intelligence had promised measures to increase the flow of fuel supplied by Qatar to Gaza via Egypt and needed to ease the small Palestinian territory's power shortages. The sides had also discussed increasing the flow of Palestinians across the border.

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Israel prevents Arab Spring from reaching West Bank: Hamas
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

Popular uprisings in the Middle East could not reach the West Bank because of Israel, the head of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament said Thursday. "If there was no Israeli occupation in the West Bank, the uprising would have been possible," said Aziz al-Dewik, the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)'s speaker, who was released recently from an Israeli prison. Al-Dewik accused the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), led by rival Fatah party of President Mahmoud Abbas, of "establishing a repressive regime with the help of Israel."

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Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Dani Dayan - (Opinion) July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Whatever word you use to describe Israel’s 1967 acquisition of Judea and Samaria — commonly referred to as the West Bank in these pages — will not change the historical facts. Arabs called for Israel’s annihilation in 1967, and Israel legitimately seized the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria in self-defense. Israel’s moral claim to these territories, and the right of Israelis to call them home today, is therefore unassailable.

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Hamas Rising
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy
by Jonathan Schanzer - (Opinion) July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Countries across the Middle East are opening their coffers to support the Palestinian cause -- but the funds are increasingly being diverted in a direction that portends renewed conflict with Israel.

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Iran accuses Israel of plotting Bulgaria bus attack
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Iran's U.N. envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed.

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Fayyad meets EU parliament member
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- The prime minister in Ramallah met Tuesday with an Austrian social democrat politician and called for international action to stop Israel's violations of international law. Salam Fayyad told Hannes Swoboda that Israel's violations were "endangering the two-state solution," and called for European and international intervention to stop plans to demolish eight villages. Fayyad said Israel's plan, disclosed Monday by Israeli media, will displace 1,500 Palestinians.

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Israel's crackdown on UN aid organization part of an assault on democracy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Michael Sfard - (Opinion) July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to grasp that Israel's democracy is under attack.

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Hamas PM heads to Egypt to seek lift of Gaza closure
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

GAZA, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Prime minister of the Hamas authority in Gaza, Ismail Haneya, will visit Egypt Wednesday and meet Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to discuss lifting the blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. It will be the first meeting between the Hamas official and the Egyptian president.

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