Fayyad: Jews can be equal citizens in Palestinian state
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
July 5, 2009 - 12:00am

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Saturday said that Jews would enjoy freedom and full civil rights in a future Palestinian state, according to a report in the Aspen Daily News. "Jews, to the extent they choose to stay and live in the state of Palestine, will enjoy those rights and certainly will not enjoy any less rights than Israeli Arabs enjoy now in the state of Israel," Fayyad said in response to a question from former CIA director James Woolsey at the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festival.

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Netanyahu changes tack on Palestinian peace process
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
July 5, 2009 - 12:00am

For the first time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday referred to a "two-state solution" in reference to efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. "We have achieved a national agreement on the formula of two states for two peoples," said the prime minister during the weekly cabinet meeting of the Israeli government.

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Editorial: Odious personality
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News
(Editorial) July 1, 2009 - 12:00am

A couple of months ago, Israel’s controversial, very right-wing foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, was in London for talks with the British government as part of a four-nation European trip. It was his first visit abroad as foreign minister and it would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall when he met British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, if only to have seen the body language. All the reports point to a cold get-together.

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Experts Voice New Hope for Solution to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In Voice of America - June 30, 2009 - 12:00am

In the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama's June 4th speech to the Muslim world and the Israeli prime minister's recent acceptance of a conditional Palestinian state, hopes have risen for a resumption of talks aimed at resolving the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Israel's Man of Conscience
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Nation
by Ezra Nawi - June 29, 2009 - 12:00am

My name is Ezra Nawi. I am a Jewish citizen of Israel. I will be sentenced on the first of July after being found guilty of assaulting two police officers in 2007 while struggling against the demolition of a Palestinian house in Um El Hir, located in the southern part of the West Bank. Of course the policemen who accused me of assaulting them are lying. Indeed, lying has become common within the Israeli police force, military and among the Jewish settlers.

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Palestinian peace in our time?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Avi Issacharoff - June 26, 2009 - 12:00am

It's been two years since Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip, and it seems as if the breach between Gaza and the West Bank - or between what has been dubbed "Fatahland" and "Hamastan" - has never been wider. More than 700 Hamas members are imprisoned in Palestinian Authority jails in the West Bank, whereas several hundred Fatah loyalists are kept in Hamas' detention facilities in Gaza. In June 2007, as Hamas launched its takeover of Gaza, clashes between the two organizations claimed the lives of 158 Palestinians, mostly Fatah members.

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Aharon Barak: Jews want equality, and to kick Arabs out
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Daniel Edelson - June 25, 2009 - 12:00am

Speaking at a New Israel Fund legal conference at the Rabin Center in Tel Aviv, former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak said, "The situation of human rights in the occupied territories is problematic, and this situation has an indirect effect on human rights in Israel." Barak, who said he is a "big believer in a state of all its citizens", while maintaining its Jewish character, criticized the general Jewish public.

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Israeli and Palestinian youth 'imagine' a peaceful region
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Stephanie Rubenstein - June 24, 2009 - 12:00am

"If peace were made in 2008, what would the region look like 10 years later?" That was the question posed to Israeli and Palestinian youngsters by One Voice, a grassroots organization that aims to promote the voices of moderate Israelis and Palestinians who are working toward a two-state solution.

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Create a real American coalition on Middle East peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) June 23, 2009 - 12:00am

For years now, my colleagues and I at the American Task Force on Palestine have argued that advocates of a two-state resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict need to form a real, functioning national coalition in the United States to support this goal. President Barack Obama has put a great deal of his political credibility and capital on the line in pursuit of negotiated resolution, forcefully articulating what all parties must do to build momentum toward this goal.

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Solving the Problem of the Old City
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Middle East Progress
by Michael Bell - (Blog) June 23, 2009 - 12:00am

Why is the issue of Jerusalem so central to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian and the broader Arab-Israeli conflict?

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