Sudan's Bashir vows "painful response" to alleged Israel bombing
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Alexander Dziadosz - (Analysis) November 9, 2012 - 1:00am

  President Omar Hassan al-Bashir promised on Thursday that Sudan would respond robustly to what he believes was an Israeli bombing of a Khartoum arms factory.

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A Teenage Druze Challenges his Compulsory Army Service
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
(Analysis) November 7, 2012 - 1:00am

Serving in a country’s army can be a source of pride for many, but for one young man from Galilee compulsory army service represents anything but honor. In August, 17-year-old Druze musician Omar Saad returned from a concert tour in Italy only to find a summons to attend Israeli army pre-enlistment phy

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A Teenage Druze Challenges his Compulsory Army Service
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Diana Atallah - (Analysis) November 7, 2012 - 1:00am

Serving in a country’s army can be a source of pride for many, but for one young man from Galilee compulsory army service represents anything but honor. In August, 17-year-old Druze musician Omar Saad returned from a concert tour in Italy only to find a summons to attend Israeli army pre-enlistment phy

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Netanyahu Says He’d Go It Alone on Striking Iran
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Jodi Rudoren - November 5, 2012 - 1:00am

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday reiterated his willingness to attack the Iranian nuclear program without support from Washington or the world, returning to an aggressive posture that he had largely abandoned since his United Nations speech in September.

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Barak to Haaretz: Netanyahu government should have done more to advance peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - November 4, 2012 - 12:00am

Defense Minister Ehud Barak this weekend criticized the way Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman have handled relations with the Palestinian Authority over the last four years, telling Haaretz in an interview: "The last government should have done much more to advance the peace process vis-a-vis [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas."

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Israeli settlers, police clash amid West Bank outpost demolition
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
November 1, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Several dozen Israeli settlers of a northern West Bank settlement scuffled with police and soldiers during an operation to raze several illegal structures overnight. "Security forces evacuated three illegal buildings," an army source told Xinhua Thursday, in the early morning operation in hilltop Yitzhar's "Haseruga" outpost -- built six months ago without municipal approval.

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24 years later, Israel acknowledges top-secret operation that killed Fatah terror chief
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Times of Israel
by Michal Shmulovich - November 1, 2012 - 12:00am

For the first time, Israel acknowledged that it was behind the killing of Abu Jihad, the PLO’s number two and cofounder, at his home in Tunis in April 1988.

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Israeli Defense Chief Says Iran Postponed Nuclear Ambitions
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Rick Gladstone - October 31, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel’s defense minister said Tuesday that the country had interpreted Iran’s conversion of some enriched uranium to fuel rods for civilian use as evidence that Iran had delayed ambitions to build a nuclear weapon.

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Netanyahu to push tougher Iran sanctions in France
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
October 31, 2012 - 12:00am

PARIS — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will urge French leaders to help strengthen sanctions against Iran and efforts to fight terrorism.

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Settler leaders lobby PM to pass Levy report
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Tovah Lazaroff - (Analysis) October 30, 2012 - 12:00am

As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu weighs bringing the Levy Report on legalizing West Bank outposts to the cabinet, settler leaders on Monday held a small protest outside the Knesset. The leaders plan to sit there throughout the week, as part of their lobby to get Netanyahu to approve the report, which states that West Bank settlements are legal under international law.

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