Despite ban, PLO leaders host Ramadan event in Jerusalem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

PLO leaders hosted a Ramadan event in east Jerusalem late Monday, in the first official Palestinian gathering in the 18 years since Israel imposed a ban on such activities in the holy city. Hanan Ashrawi, a senior PLO leader, and Adnan Husseini, the Palestinian Authority governor of Jerusalem, hosted the Iftar meal and briefed diplomats on a bid to join the United Nations in the coming months.

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PA grants 4.7 million NIS to West Bank universities
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Finance on Wednesday transferred financial aid to seven universities, the PA education minister said. Ali al-Jarbawi said that Al-Najah University, Bethlehem University, Al-Istiqlal Academy, Bir Zeit, Hebron, the Open University and Palestinian polytechnic will all receive the funding, designed to alleviate the financial crisis affecting universities. The total amount of funding to be divided between the seven universities is 4.7 million shekels ($1.1 million).

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On Laws and Walls
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Emily L. Hauser - (Opinion) August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

This past week, Israel’s Justice Ministry issued new regulations that, if implemented, will make it impossible for many Palestinians and all undocumented immigrants to file suit in Israeli courts.

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Palestinian culture is not about failure
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
by Ziad Asali - (Opinion) August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Given the current conversation about issue of Palestinian culture and its relationship to politics and economics, I feel it is appropriate for me to add my own Palestinian-American perspective.

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Palestinian Statehood Could Be Escape Strategy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by J.J. Goldberg - (Opinion) August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

As the Palestinians prepare for another attempt to win recognition as a state at the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama has a rare opportunity to show true friendship for Israel in a way that sets him apart from and ahead of his rival. He can welcome the Palestinian request and promise to support it. On certain conditions, that is. How in heaven’s name could supporting a U.N. Palestine resolution be an act of friendship toward Israel? Simple: It could restart negotiations, with Israel in a stronger position.

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Palestinian culture is not about failure
In Print by Ziad Asali - The Daily Star (Opinion) - August 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Given the current conversation about issue of Palestinian culture and its relationship to politics and economics, I feel it is appropriate for me to add my own Palestinian-American perspective.

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Gaza families visit relatives in Israeli jails
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Relatives of Palestinians jailed in Israel left the Gaza Strip on Monday to visit detainees, a prisoners group said, in the fifth such visit since 2007. As part of a deal to end mass hunger strikes in Israeli jails in May, Israeli authorities agreed to ease a ban on Gaza families visiting prisons. Fifty-seven people left Gaza on Monday to visit 42 imprisoned relatives in Israel, Gaza-based prisoners group Husam said.

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PA official: 11 killed in car crash near Tulkarem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Eleven people were killed and several injured on Sunday when two vehicles crashed in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian Authority official said. Minister of Health Hani Abdin told Ma'an that 10 people died and five were injured when a service taxi collided with a private car at Bala junction east of Tulkarem. One of the injured people succumbed to his wounds later bringing the death toll to eleven. Six of the victims' bodies were transferred to Thabet Thabet hospital and the injured were taken to al-Zakah hospital, both in Tulkarem.

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This Headline is About Very Important Quiet
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Gershom Gorenberg - (Opinion) August 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Have you read the news about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? Of course you haven't. Nothing is happening in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. The lack of diplomacy is a desperately important matter. But headlines are written about things that happen. Peace agreements are news, as are explosions on downtown streets. A quiet, unstable no-peace-no-war that could collapse on an unknown date isn't a headline.

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Sinai's Invisible War
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy
by Mohamed Fadel Fahmy - (Opinion) August 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Over the weekend, Mohamed Morsy cleaned house. Following weeks of deadlock with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Egypt's first popularly elected president finally stepped out of the military's shadow, sacking a laundry list of top generals, including Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, and annulling a controversial military decree that curbed the president's powers.

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