Wife of Israeli diplomat wounded in car blast near New Delhi embassy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amos Harel, Barak Ravid - February 13, 2012 - 1:00am

The wife of an Israeli diplomat was moderately wounded on Monday when a car bomb exploded outside of Israel's embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Haaretz has learned. The wounded woman in question is the wife of the Defense Ministry's representative to India. The incident came one day after the fourth anniversary marking the assasination of Hezbollah's deputy leader, Imad Mughniyeh, which the Islamist organization blames on Israel.


Palestinians consider upgrading UN status as peace talks stalled: sources
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
February 13, 2012 - 1:00am

RAMALLAH, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinians are considering upgrading their UN status to a non-member observer state after failing to obtain state recognition through the world body's Security Council, sources close to the leadership said on Monday. However, the Palestinians' decision will depend on Israel's response to a letter sent by President Mahmoud Abbas via some Arab leaders, the sources said.

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Saved by our enemies
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Barry Rubin - (Opinion) February 12, 2012 - 1:00am

President Barack Obama is campaigning on the claim that he is a great friend of Israel despite the fact that this is clearly not true. After all, the announcement of a coalition government between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas, a genocidally oriented terrorist group that is openly anti- Semitic and rejects all of the agreements with Israel on which the PA is based prompts no US (or European) policy response.

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Veto vs. Veto
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Dar Al-Hayat
by Ziad al-Drees - (Opinion) February 10, 2012 - 1:00am

The U.S. Secretary of State called the Russian-Chinese double veto against the draft resolution condemning the Syrian regime ‘Shameful’. In truth, this American description is inaccurate, because what is shameful instead is not the Russian or Chinese veto. It is the concept of the veto itself! If we consider the issue through this wider perspective, we will find that the comment made by the U.S. ambassador to the UN is atrocious, when she spoke with the tone of a tame wolf as she expressed her disgust with the Sino-Russian veto, and said, “The United States is disgusted

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Rock Musician Cat Power Cancels Israel Show, Citing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
February 10, 2012 - 1:00am

JERUSALEM — American musician Cat Power has canceled her show in Israel, joining a list of artists shunning the country over its conflict with the Palestinians. Charlyn Marie Marshall, better known by her stage name Cat Power, was to perform in Tel Aviv on Sunday. But she tweeted on Friday that due to “much confusion” she felt she could not play for her Israeli fans and that she felt “sick in her spirit.” She had faced calls to boycott the Jewish state.

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‘Anonymous’ Hacker Group Threatens ‘Reign of Terror’ Against Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Oded Yaron - February 10, 2012 - 1:00am

The hacker group “Anonymous” released a video Friday threatening to begin a ‘reign of terror’ against Israel, in the latest round of cyber warfare between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli hackers. The video, which was posted on YouTube in the early hours of the morning, blamed Israel for committing 'crimes against humanity,' and criticizing it for its treatment of Palestinians. Anonymous hackers

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The End of the Exploitation of the Palestinian Cause
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Dar Al-Hayat
by Husam Itani - (Opinion) February 10, 2012 - 1:00am

By drawing up the facets of a new world, the revolutions are reproducing the social and political powers, as well as their structures, and introducing definitions and concepts differing from the ones which prevailed over reality and our way of thinking throughout the past stages.

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Shrugging at BDS
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
(Editorial) February 10, 2012 - 1:00am

Before she became the subject of an Oscar-nominated feature film, Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of Great Britain during a particularly violent period of European airplane hijackings and Northern Irish terrorism attacks. She was especially critical of what she deemed the media circus covering these events. “Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend,” she admonished.

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Jordan re-enters the fray
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons
by Naseem Tarawnah - (Opinion) February 9, 2012 - 1:00am

While King Abdullah has managed to maneuver through the turbulent regional weather of the past decade, hardly a year passes without Jordanians such as myself forced to wonder: what would his father King Hussein have done?

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Hamas Drifting Away From Longtime Patron Iran
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Statesman
by Karin Laub - February 9, 2012 - 1:00am

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas appears to be drifting away from its longtime patron Iran — part of a shift that began with last year's Arab Spring and accelerated over Tehran's backing of the pariah regime in Syria. The movement's top leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, wants Hamas to be part of the broader Islamist political rise triggered by the popular uprisings sweeping across the Arab world. For this, Hamas needs new friends like the wealthy Gulf states that are at odds with Iran.

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