Israeli troops kill Palestinian on Gaza border
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
April 5, 2011 - 12:00am

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a Palestinian medical worker and the Israeli military said. An army spokeswoman said the man was a militant and had been spotted in an area Israel has deemed off limits because militants often use it to target military patrols along the fence. "Soldiers identified an armed man near the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip and fired towards him identifying a hit," the spokeswoman said.

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Beyond Goldstone: A truer discussion about Israel, Hamas and the Gaza conflict
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Jessica Montell - (Opinion) April 5, 2011 - 12:00am

The word Goldstone has entered the modern Hebrew lexicon as shorthand for anti-Israel bias and the deterioration of Israel’s international position. When the fact-finding U.N. mission headed by Judge Richard Goldstone released its report into Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip 18 months ago, it seemed as if the world divided into two camps. There was the pro-Goldstone camp, arguing that Israel had committed war crimes in Gaza and must be held accountable; and there was the anti-Goldstone camp, which insisted that the report was nothing less than a blood libel against the Jewish state.

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Goldstone won't seek Gaza report nullification
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Steven R. Hurst - April 5, 2011 - 12:00am

South African jurist Richard Goldstone said Tuesday that he did not plan to seek nullification of his highly critical U.N. report on Israel's 2008-2009 offensive in the Gaza Strip and asserted that claims to the contrary by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai were false.

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Next Gaza war is getting closer
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff - April 4, 2011 - 12:00am

After a week-long lull in violence along the Gaza border, the southern front is heating up once again following an Israeli assassination on Saturday of three Hamas men in Khan Yunis, one of them a senior member of the organization's military wing. According to the IDF, the three men were planning to abduct Israeli tourists in Sinai over the Passover holiday. Hamas denies the allegation.

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Goldstone Report: Reexamining 5 key findings
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Ariel Zirulnick - April 4, 2011 - 12:00am

Israel targeted Gazan civilians The Goldstone Report claimed that Israel intentionally targeted Palestinian civilians as a matter of policy, which is a violation of international law. Judge Goldstone's column last week retracted that charge, which may have been the most controversial allegation leveled against Israel in the report. Paragraph 1,886 from the original report:

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Israel lauds Gaza war crimes investigator’s reversal, mulls dealing with ‘human shields’
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
April 3, 2011 - 12:00am

Many modern armies have struggled with how to battle an enemy who uses human shields, perhaps none more so than Israel. So Israeli leaders were especially pleased Sunday after an admission by Richard Goldstone — a Jewish U.N. investigator who became persona non grata in the Jewish state — that war crimes accusations contained in his report on Israel’s offensive in Gaza two years ago should be reconsidered.

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IDF prepares for multi-front war in war games
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Yaakov Katz - April 1, 2011 - 12:00am

In the face of a changing Middle East, the IDF held a set of war games this week aimed at preparing the military for all-out war against Hezbollah, Syria and Hamas. The exercise did not include soldiers or live-fire exercises, but was held to drill commanders and their decisions in the event of a large-scale war on multiple fronts. The exercise was the first overseen by new Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz. It was organized by Maj.-Gen. Gershon Hacohen, head of the IDF Colleges.

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Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Richard Goldstone - (Opinion) April 1, 2011 - 12:00am

We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.

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Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Richard Goldstone - (Opinion) April 1, 2011 - 12:00am

We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has come to be known as the Goldstone Report. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.

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Barak: Iron Dome not perfect
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Tova Dadon - March 31, 2011 - 12:00am

Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited the site where the first Iron Dome battery is stationed in Beersheba on Thursday. Barak admitted that the system cannot provide perfect protection from rockets but promised other batteries will be deployed in the coming years. "Today the system commences an operational test, which is an extraordinary achievement by Israeli technology and Israel's Air Force," Barak said during the tour. He noted the Iron Dome battery was the first to intercept rockets fired at civilians.

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