IDF chief of staff-turned-vice premier: 'We are not bluffing'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Ari Shavit - (Interview) June 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Exactly seven years ago, I interviewed the chief of staff. On the eve of his retirement from the Israel Defense Forces, Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon spoke with an expressionless face against the Gaza disengagement, against a Palestinian state and against giving terrorism a “tailwind.” He predicted that Hamas would seize control of the Gaza Strip and that rockets would rain down on Israeli cities.

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Israeli forces order Hebron village demolished after settler case
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli forces on Tuesday handed a southern West Bank village demolition orders for each of its 50 buildings, a week after Israeli authorities agreed to halt all construction in the area in response to a petition filed by a settler group. Susiya village, in the south Hebron hills, has three days to appeal the decision before their village is demolished, resident Nasser Nawaja told Ma'an. The community's lawyer Quamar Mishirqi said she will file an objection to Israel's High Court.

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Question and Answer: Norman Finkelstein
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Tablet Magazine
by David Samuels - (Interview) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

For three decades, Norman Finkelstein has been the American Jewish community’s problem-child—denounced as a hysteric, a marginal ideologue, and a self-hating Jew. Selfless and vain, highly emotional—sometimes hysterical—in tone yet relentlessly logical in his arguments, he is now an academic with a doctorate from Princeton whose attacks on “the Holocaust Industry” and public cheerleading for Hezbollah have rendered him so toxic that he can’t obtain even the lowliest adjunct teaching position at any community college in America.

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Military: Syria chemical stocks threaten Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel's deputy military chief has warned that Syria's large chemical weapons stocks could be trained on Israel. According to Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh, Syria has the largest arsenal of chemical weapons in the world. If the Syrians had the chance, he said, they would "treat us the same way they treat their own people." Syria has not declared its chemical weapons stocks so their exact size is not known. Among other things, Israel is worried that such weapons could fall into the hands of anti-Israel militants should the Syrian regime crumble.

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Help us save Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Dor Glick - (Opinion) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

My consciousness was sawed off this week. Ever since the global boycott campaign against the settlements got underway, I objected to it and attempted to persuade my friends to avoid any foreign intervention in our situation.

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Democracy in Arabia
In Print by Hussein Ibish - Bookforum.com - June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

If anybody asked me, particularly in a plaintive tone of desperation, for a comprehensive backgrounder on the uprisings that have convulsed much of the Arab world since December 2010, I’d have no hesitation in pointing them to The Battle for the Arab Spring.

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Why Israel should help Syrians during this crisis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Eli Epstein, Ghanem M. Nuseibeh - (Opinion) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel’s regional and global image continues to sink to new lows. The political peace process continues to be stalemated. As internal and external factors allow Israel to keep indulging in self-perpetuating isolationism, the anti-Israel camp finds no difficulty in recruiting sympathizers, further causing Israelis to recoil from the compromises needed to advance toward a final settlement.

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Ariel versus Academia
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Dov Waxman - (Opinion) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli academia is about to suffer a major blow. Within the next few weeks, Israel’s Council for Higher Education, which oversees Israeli universities and colleges, is expected to approve the upgrade of Ariel College to full university status. This would be a big victory for right-wing political pressure and for the settlement enterprise in the West Bank, and it would greatly damage higher education in Israel.

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Israelis unite in call to release jailed spy Pollard
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
June 10, 2012 - 12:00am

In the largest public campaign to date, tens of thousands of Israelis have signed a petition calling on President Shimon Peres to leverage his diplomatic stature in order to secure the freedom of Jonathan Pollard, a former intelligence analyst jailed in a U.S. prison for the past 27 years on charges of spying for Israel. Peres on Saturday night departed on a six-day trip to the United States, where U.S. President Barack Obama will award him later in the week the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the most prestigious civilian honor bestowed by the U.S. administration.

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Israel to decide on settlement university
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Statesman
by Diaa Hadid - June 9, 2012 - 12:00am

In the fraught atmosphere of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an approaching decision on whether to award coveted university status to a college has taken on powerful political overtones. For critics of Israel's policy of settling Jews in the West Bank, the upgrade of the "Ariel University Center of Samaria" into a permanent university would be a strong signal of what they say is creeping annexation of the hilly territory.

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