Abbas to issue decrees on elections, unity govt
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
February 13, 2013 - 1:00am

President Mahmoud Abbas will issue decrees announcing elections and declaring a new unity government, a senior Fatah official said Tuesday. At a news conference in Ramallah, Azzam al-Ahmad said the two decrees would be issued at the same time. Abbas has already started consultations to form a unity government of technocrats, which will be sworn when the Central Elections Commission finishing updated the voter registry, by the end of March, al-Azzam told reporters.

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Why Can’t Jewish Settlements Remain in a Palestinian State?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Hillel Halkin - (Opinion) February 13, 2013 - 1:00am

  “There’s no greater cliché,” I wrote in this column a month ago, “than the one that keeps insisting that the settlements are an obstacle to peace. They may have been that once, when they were few and sparsely populated enough to be removed. Now that they’ve long passed that point, any peace agreement will have to make room for their existence.”

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Rising From Ruins
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Raja Shehadeh - (Opinion) February 13, 2013 - 1:00am

 

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U.S. Assistance to the Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from United States State Department
(Press Release) February 12, 2013 - 1:00am

Question: What is the status of the funding Congresswoman Granger approved for the Palestinian Authority?

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Palestine’s Democratic Deficit
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by David Keyes - (Opinion) February 12, 2013 - 1:00am

LAST week, a 26-year-old Palestinian activist, Anas Awwad, was sentenced in absentia by a court in Nablus, the West Bank, to one year in prison for “extending his tongue” against the Palestinian Authority’s president, 

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Palestinian Spokeswoman Urges Obama: Don’t Miss Opportunity
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Felice Friedson - (Interview) February 12, 2013 - 1:00am

  TML:  Nour, how did you get into this position? It’s the first time that a woman is carrying this weight…  

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Hamas to demolish 75 houses built on public lands
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
February 12, 2013 - 1:00am

Members of the Abu Amrah family in Gaza City demonstrated Tuesday in front of offices of the Palestinian Legislative Council protesting a decision by the Hamas-run government to demolish 75 houses belonging to the family in the al-Rimal neighborhood. The government says it decided to demolish the houses because they were illegally built on public lands. The demolition is scheduled to be conducted Wednesday morning.

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Struggling Caribbean islands selling citizenship
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by David McFadden - February 12, 2013 - 1:00am

Hadi Mezawi has never set foot on the Caribbean island of Dominica, has never seen its rainforests or black-sand beaches. But he's one of its newest citizens. Without leaving his home in the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian man recently received a brand new Dominican passport after sending a roughly $100,000 contribution to the tropical nation half a world away.

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PA Employees in Gaza Key to Reconciliation
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor
by Omar Shaban - (Editorial) February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

In response to the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, the Palestinian Authority (PA) took several measures, all of which — according to their claims — aimed to render the Hamas government’s task of running the Gaza Strip impossible, and to push it to quickly be exposed and collapse.

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Historical Experiences and Perception
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Huffington Post
by Alon Ben-Meir - (Opinion) February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

Brief synopsis: The most puzzling aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be that after 65 years of violence, enmity and suffering, it remains unresolved when coexistence is inevitable and a two-state solution remains the only viable option. Although there are many contentious issues that must be specifically addressed, directly impacting every conflicting issue is the broader psychological dimension of the conflict, which makes it increasingly intractable.

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