Push for recognition of Jewish refugees from Arab lands seeks to counterbalance Palestinian claims
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
by Ben Sales - September 4, 2012 - 12:00am

Naim Reuven was only 8 when he left Baghdad more than 50 years ago, but he still remembers going with his father to catch fish in the Tigris River. His dad worked in a laundromat, a middle-class father of six and one of Iraq’s more than 100,000 Jews. Baghdad’s Jewish community suffered a pogrom in 1941, but Reuven, born a year later, has only fond memories of his childhood there -- until Israel declared independence in 1948.

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Gov’t steps up campaign for Jewish Arab refugees
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Jeremy Sharon - August 28, 2012 - 12:00am

The Foreign Ministry – along with the World Jewish Congress and the Pensioners Affairs Ministry – is ramping up its campaign to bring the issue of Jewish refugee rights to public and diplomatic attention. According to the Foreign Ministry more than 850,000 Jews from Arab states fled their countries of birth following persecution that ensued after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Many also had their property confiscated.

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The arc of the pendulum
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons
by Ghassan Khatib - (Blog) August 27, 2012 - 12:00am

When Yossi Alpher and I sat in my Jerusalem office in the year 2000, discussing plans for the first bitterlemons web magazine, we never imagined that it would grow to encompass four different publications and two books, or that it would span 12 years of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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There is no consensus regarding the Oslo Accords
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Susan Hattis Rolef - (Opinion) August 26, 2012 - 12:00am

Since President Shimon Peres went public regarding his opinion that Israel should not attack Iran without fully coordinated with the US, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and others have started attacking the president for overstepping his legitimate role, and have reverted to attacking Peres for what they regard as his mistaken judgments over the years on major political issues. One of these “mistaken judgments” is the 1993 Oslo Accords.

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PA minister: Settler violence undermines peace process
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli violations against Palestinians are encouraging violence and harming the peace process, the Palestinian Authority minister of religious affairs said Wednesday. Mahmoud Habbash's remarks came as he visited the family of victims who were targeted by settlers in a Molotov attack a week earlier near Hebron in the southern West Bank. Representing the president, Habbash told the family of the victims that Mahmoud Abbas would follow up with their case and intended to pay for their pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Danger to Israel-Egypt ties
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Alex Fishman - (Analysis) August 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's termination of the Arab country's old military guard with one swipe and without resistance was one of the most surprising and dramatic developments of the revolution.

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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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Israeli FM's anti-Abbas remarks anger Palestinian leadership
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 8, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's comments against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas angered the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on Wednesday. Nabil Abu Rdineh, a PNA spokesman, said the Israeli foreign minister's statements "reveal the mentality of killing peace and fueling conflict."

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Report From the Two-State Frontlines
Media Mention of Ghaith al-Omari In The Jewish Daily Forward - July 20, 2012 - 12:00am

UPDATE, 12:38 PM The session ended with summaries by the three panelists of where they see things heading.

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Mideast peace slips to second billing for US
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Josef Federman - July 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Mideast peace, America's defining issue for decades of dealings with Israel and its Arab neighbors, was just a postscript Monday as Hillary Rodham Clinton made perhaps her final visit to the region as secretary of state. Three years after President Barack Obama declared the plight of the Palestinians "intolerable," his administration no longer sees the failing Arab-Israeli peace efforts with the same immediacy. U.S. interests are focused now on Iran and Syria, though the deep differences between Israel and the Palestinians are not ignored.

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