WEST BANK: Palestinians call on U.N. to implement 1967 borders proposal
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times
(Blog) May 26, 2011 - 12:00am

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas expressed disappointment with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday and said the Israeli leader's comments had dealt a blow to efforts to resume peace talks.

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Palestinians demand return of lost residency rights
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC News
by Yolande Knell - May 18, 2011 - 12:00am

The Palestinian Authority is calling on Israel to reinstate the rights of up to 140,000 people who lived in the occupied West Bank and lost their residency after travelling abroad. According to official documents obtained by an Israeli human rights group, the practice affected Palestinians travelling abroad after the 1967 Six Day War. It remained in place until 1994 when the Oslo Accords came into effect. A spokesman for the Palestinian government, Ghassan Khatib, said "an illegal and inhuman Israeli action" had been highlighted.

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Israel gives go-ahead for access road to new Palestinian city
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
May 18, 2011 - 12:00am

The Israeli government's department responsible for conducting civilian affairs in Palestinian National Authority (PNA) areas, has given its assent for paving a major road to a new Palestinian city, Rawabi, under construction north of Ramallah. The Civil Administration signed off on what is being viewed as a goodwill gesture by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government, prior to his visit to the United States this weekend, according to the Ha'aretz daily.

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Defense Minister: Border infiltrations are just the beginning
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
May 16, 2011 - 12:00am

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday that Israel Defense Forces soldiers succeeded in defending Israel's sovereignty when Palestinian refugee demonstrators breached the border with Syria and attempted to cross the border with Lebanon. Barak cautioned, however, that Israel will in the future have to deal with similar and perhaps more complex incidents. IDF forces opened fire on demonstrators on the Syria border, apparently killing several of them.

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Jerusalem mayor says holy city indivisible
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Dan Perry - May 4, 2011 - 12:00am

The Israeli mayor of Jerusalem said Wednesday that Arabs and Jews are now so intertwined that the city cannot possibly be divided, even though both Israel and the Palestinians claim it as their capital. "You cannot divide the city," said Nir Barkat in a meeting in his office with The Associated Press and several other foreign media organizations. "I know it will never work."

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Israelis shot in West Bank tried to break through Palestinian roadblock, probe shows
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chaim Levinson, Anshel Pfeffer - April 24, 2011 - 12:00am

Palestinian security forces opened fire early Sunday on three cars full of Israelis who entered the West Bank compound of Joseph's Tomb without permission and then tried to break through a local checkpoint, according to an initial investigation by the Israel Defense Forces and the Palestinian Authority. Ben-Joseph Livnat, a 25-year-old father of four and nephew of Culture and Science Minister Limor Livnat, was killed in the shooting. Three other people were wounded, and are in light to serious conditions.

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Israel's wall cements psychological divide between Arab, Jew
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Joshua Mitnick - April 22, 2011 - 12:00am

shad Zeid, a Palestinian farmer who lives not far from the bustle of Tel Aviv, once sold his crops to Israeli acquaintances – chatting with them in Hebrew as they paid for cabbage or cauliflower. But now Mr. Zeid's world ends abruptly at a high wall of gray concrete erected by Israel to protect its citizens against Palestinian suicide bombers. Just beyond the wall bordering his fields lies Kfar Saba, a Tel Aviv suburb of 85,000 that was once part of his customer base.

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A holy city's peaceful purpose
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by George Moffett - (Opinion) April 21, 2011 - 12:00am

To the Gospel writer John, it was "the great" and "holy" city. To the writer of Hebrews, it was "the city of the living God." To the poet Dante, it was "the city where God dwells and reigns."

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Netanyahu's West Bank plan reeks of irrational desperation
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Aluf Benn - April 13, 2011 - 12:00am

When Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu led the opposition to the Oslo Accords, he had a stroke of media brilliance. Speechwriter Netanyahu called the dynamic of the negotiations not "give and take," but "give and give," ridiculing the leaders of the left and promising that he would insist upon reciprocity. The Palestinians would have to pay through concessions for every dunam they receive in the territories. If they give, they'll get, he said on assuming office as prime minister, and if they don't give, they won't get.

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Partial West Bank pullout can't stop Palestinian state
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
(Editorial) April 13, 2011 - 12:00am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is assimilating too slowly the possibility - he calls it a danger - that come September, the world will recognize an independent Palestinian state.

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