For Gaza, Egypt’s Islamist victory no quick fix
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Ibrahim Barzak, Karin Laub - (Opinion) June 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Gaza’s euphoria over the election of a Muslim Brotherhood leader as Egypt’s first Islamist president seemed a bit premature as reality set in the Monday.

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The Third Intifada Is Inevitable
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Nathan Thrall - (Opinion) June 22, 2012 - 12:00am

EARLIER this month, at a private meeting with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his security advisers, a group of Middle East experts and former intelligence officers warned that a third Palestinian intifada was imminent. The immediate catalyst, they said, could be another mosque vandalized by Jewish settlers, like the one burned on Tuesday, or the construction of new settlement housing.

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Majority of Palestinians Doesn’t Trust Fatah, Hamas Regards of Reconciliation
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Palestine News Network
June 20, 2012 - 12:00am

A poll hosted by the Palestine News Network has shown that the majority of Palestinians, around 80%, have no confidence in the reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, saying that there is no hope for the reconciliation. The poll was published on the PNN website several weeks ago directly after the news about Fatah and Hamas signed an agreement on the formation of a new consensus government. The poll shows that:

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MRSA scare in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
(Editorial) June 19, 2012 - 12:00am

MRSA is an all-too-real monster. A bacterium that can resist most antibiotics, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus can be fatal. It spreads easily and quickly, and is particularly dangerous to patients in hospitals and nursing homes, where it is increasingly found. And now a strain of this microbe has been found in Gaza City, Haaretz reports. The danger of this fast-moving, hard-to-treat and potentially deadly germ must now be added to the list of tribulations afflicting people in Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas on Earth.

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Can the Palestinian Tech-Industry Catch Up to Its Neighbors?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Calcalist
by Danny Rubenstein - (Opinion) June 19, 2012 - 12:00am

The name of the Arab portal “Maktoob” is well-known in Palestinian high-tech centers in Ramallah. Two Jordanian entrepreneurs, both from families of Palestinian origin, sold Maktoob two years ago to search engine giant Yahoo for $150 million. Maktoob is the biggest portal in the Arab world. It sees some 17 million surfers every month, and it includes news, computerized services, telecommunications and various technologies.

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Dozens protest at Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
June 18, 2012 - 12:00am

Dozens of Palestinians protested Sunday at the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern coastal city of Sidon over recent clashes that led to the killing of a Palestinian teenager near a refugee camp in north Lebanon. Protesters chanted slogans condemning the use of arms against Palestinian civilians and called for establishing a committee to probe the circumstances surrounding the Friday killing of Ahmad Qassem, 15, near the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon.

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Jericho business park aims to inch Palestine towards sustainability
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Liz Ford - June 18, 2012 - 12:00am

On a slab of dusty land near the city of Jericho, rows of solar panels are being installed and tested. Eventually, there will be 2,600 of them in the 11.5 hectare (28 acre) area, providing around 300kW a day to help power the Jericho Agro-Industrial Park (Jaip), a public-private enterprise designed to boost the economic fortunes of the Palestinian territories.

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PA advised against bid for Bethlehem church
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Tovah Lazaroff - June 15, 2012 - 12:00am

The secretariat of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has come out against a bid by the Palestinian Authority to use an emergency procedure to register Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity under the country of “Palestine” as a World Heritage site. “At the UN, where the General Assembly each year adopts more resolutions criticizing Israel than on the rest of the world combined, this is a spectacle as rare as Halley’s Comet,” UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said.

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Stand up for West Bank's Freedom theatre
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Howard Brenton - (Opinion) June 13, 2012 - 12:00am

What price the freedom to put on plays? The odd bad review in the Daily Telegraph (if you're me)? Or protesters at Shakespeare's Globe (if you're performing in Habima theatre's Israeli version of The Merchant of Venice)?

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Music for the Masses
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from International Herald Tribune
by Raja Shehadeh - (Blog) June 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Monday night I attended a piano concert in Ramallah given by the internationally acclaimed Palestinian pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar who was born in Nazareth and now lives in Berlin. Despite the hardship of the Israeli occupation, a vital classical music revival has emerged in the West Bank in the last few years.

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