Israel-Palestine Peace Process Will Return From the Dead
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor
by Aaron David Miller - (Opinion) May 16, 2012 - 12:00am

A wise Israeli once observed that in Israeli politics, you could be just dead or more permanently dead, and buried.  It’s a useful distinction which also has relevance for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process these days.

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Recognizing Nakba, Reaching Peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Hanan Ashrawi - (Opinion) May 15, 2012 - 12:00am

May is the cruelest month despite the promise of spring. It carries the bitter memories of ongoing loss and injustice for a nation, my nation. Every year, Palestinians mark Al-Nakba, or the Catastrophe, of 1948, to remember how our vibrant society was physically and politically crushed by violence and forced expulsion.

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Nakba is part of Israel's history
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
(Editorial) May 15, 2012 - 12:00am

"I don't expect an Arab national to sing 'A Jewish soul still yearns,' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said two months ago, after Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran refrained from singing the national anthem. Although the message was conveyed to Joubran indirectly, it reflected Netanyahu's understanding of the fundamental contradiction underlying an anthem that addresses only one people, the Jewish one.

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Presidential Questions on Peace Process
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Noam Neusner - (Opinion) May 15, 2012 - 12:00am

The battle for the philo-Israel vote is taking familiar shape as both major candidates and major parties do their best to pledge fealty to Israel at this hour of maximum peril. President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney are outdoing each other when it comes to their rhetoric. Obama says he’s got Israel’s back. Romney says that a White House led by him would not have “one inch of difference” with Jerusalem.

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UCLA’s “one state or two” debate
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Journal
by Jonah Lowenfeld - May 15, 2012 - 12:00am

For anyone who missed the debate on May 15 at UCLA between Reza Aslan and Hussein Ibish over whether the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be resolved by creating a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish one or by creating a single bi-national state, here’s the basic report of what went down.

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Thank you, Russian immigrant to Israel, for Nakba Day
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Bradley Burston - (Opinion) May 15, 2012 - 12:00am

It is customary for our people to honor fast days, memorial days and festivals by studying commentaries on their origins, the symbols and rituals of their observance, and the ways in which they connect to our own lives.

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Sadly, nothing left to talk about
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons
by Yossi Alpher - (Opinion) May 14, 2012 - 12:00am

A few weeks ago, after much soul-searching, I reluctantly accepted an invitation to a meeting about the peace process with Palestinian colleagues, held under the auspices of a veteran third-party convener who is truly dedicated to the cause of Israeli-Palestinian understanding and reconciliation. I have been turning down such invitations regularly for several years now, ever since concluding that the meetings had become pointless and were not worth the price I would pay in pure frustration.

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Israel putting any two-state peace deal at risk, says EU
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Harriet Sherwood - May 14, 2012 - 12:00am

The European Union has warned that the prospect of a peaceful and viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, involving two states side by side, is in jeopardy because of Israeli actions.

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Can good come of it?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Economist
(Analysis) May 12, 2012 - 12:00am

NO SOONER had news broken of the sudden alliance in Israel between Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, and Shaul Mofaz, hitherto the leader of the main opposition, than the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, called yet again for “substantive” talks to achieve a Palestinian state. Palestinian negotiators dusted off a plan Mr Mofaz first proposed in 2009 and has reiterated several times, wondering whether he might repackage it.

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Is a two-state solution dead?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times
(Editorial) May 9, 2012 - 12:00am

It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when a comprehensive rapprochement between Israelis and Palestinians seemed not just possible but inevitable. In the mid-1990s, the two-state solution was gaining support on both sides. Hamas and Islamic Jihad were losing influence.

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