The banality of a Palestinian's arrest
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amira Hass - November 21, 2011 - 1:00am

1. A Palestinian is arrested - a routine matter (the routine in question took place on October 21, 2011). 2. The usual charges: "Throwing an object, including a stone, with the intention of harming a person or property," and organizing an illegal demonstration in which he participated.

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Did Israel assassinate Iran's 'missile king'?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Scott Peterson - (Analysis) November 15, 2011 - 1:00am

Iran today buries a senior commander of its missile force, amid claims that the huge explosion that killed him and at least 16 others at a Revolutionary Guard base on Saturday was the work of Israeli agents.

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Israeli generals fight gender segregation in ranks
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Jeffrey Heller - (Analysis) November 14, 2011 - 1:00am

Israel's military must not give in to Jewish religious demands to prevent the mixing of men and women in the ranks, a group of reservist generals told the country's defence minister on Monday. The 19 generals, among them former army, air force and navy commanders, listed times when they said women had been sidelined or segregated during military events because of pressure from male Orthodox soldiers.

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In the IDF, it's the officers vs. the rabbis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amos Harel - (Blog) November 14, 2011 - 1:00am

Amid renewed fighting on the Gaza border and an influx of reports on a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, Israel Defense Forces chief Benny Gantz’s term is being dominated by an entirely different issue: the cultural war brewing within the army. Specifically, the impact of rabbis and religious officers on the day-to-day life of the military, beyond the basic rights promised to them by IDF regulations.

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Intel Source: Israel Behind Deadly Explosion at Iran Missile Base
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from
by Karl Vick - (Analysis) November 13, 2011 - 1:00am

Israeli newspapers on Sunday were thick with innuendo, the front pages of the three largest dailies dominated by variations on the headline "Mysterious Explosion in Iranian Missile Base." Turn the page, and the mystery is answered with a wink. "Who Is Responsible for Attacks on the Iranian Army?" asks Maariv, and the paper lists without further comment a half-dozen other violent setbacks to Iran's nuclear and military nexus. For Israeli readers, the coy implication is that their own government was behind Saturday's massive blast just outside Tehran.

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Israeli army: Soldiers accidentally kill settler near Hebron
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Agence France Presse (AFP)
November 11, 2011 - 1:00am

JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israeli soldiers shot dead a settler and wounded two others when they opened fire on a car at a roadblock south of Hebron on Friday, the army and settler leaders said. "Soldiers who had been warned of a suspicious vehicle opened fire, killing one Israeli and wounding two others," a military spokesman told AFP. The car, driving from the Haggay settlement towards Hebron, had failed to stop at a barrier specially erected to intercept it following an alert, the spokesman said.

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Gilad Shalit and the Rising Price of an Israeli Life
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Ronen Bergman - (Opinion) November 9, 2011 - 1:00am

On the afternoon of June 27, 1976, Palestinian and German terrorists hijacked an Air France flight originating from Israel and directed it eventually to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where most of the non-Israelis on board were immediately released. More than 100 hostages remained, 83 of whom were Israeli. They were held for the next six days, until an elite team of Israel Defense Force commandos freed them in the famous raid known as Operation Entebbe.

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Fighting to make Israel into a military theocracy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Yagil Levy - (Opinion) November 8, 2011 - 1:00am

Is there a connection between the warning of the outgoing Judea and Samaria Division commander, Brig. Gen. Nitzan Alon - who said a "radical minority, marginal in quantity but not in influence, is liable to bring about extensive escalation through what are called 'price tag' acts but reach the level of terrorism" - and the separation of women at the army's Simhat Torah celebrations?

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Shalit saga was a defeat for Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Moshe Arens - (Opinion) November 8, 2011 - 1:00am

In those terrible days 10 years ago, when Palestinian terror was striking at Israeli civilians almost daily in the streets of the cities of Israel, there were those who argued that terror could not be defeated by military means, while some said that it could not be defeated by military means alone and others argued that terror can and should be defeated solely by military means.

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Israel’s reckless duo
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Uri Bar-Yosef - (Opinion) November 7, 2011 - 1:00am

The growing reports about the possibility that our prime minister and defense minister have already decided that Israel shall attack Iran’s nuclear sites must bother any Israeli citizen concerned for his personal safety and for the nation’s security. Historical experience taught us that we must not underestimate such reports.

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