The Prospect Of A New Gaza Reality
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) January 29, 2008 - 7:00pm

Even after the disengagement from Gaza, Israel remained legally responsible for the welfare of the 1.5 million Palestinians there. International law considered the Gaza Strip to be under Israeli occupation even after every single settler and soldier left. The reason for Israel's continued legal responsibility is mainly based on the fact that Israel sealed all of Gaza's borders to the outside world and prevented the opening of a sea or airport in Gaza for the use of the Palestinians. Israel furthermore continues to control Gaza's territorial water and airspace.

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A Rough Guide To Hebron: The World's Strangest Guided Tour Highlights The Abuse Of Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
January 29, 2008 - 6:54pm

It starts in Shuhada Street, which runs through what is now the settlers' security zone, the rows of empty Palestinian shops and houses boarded up with steel shutters, many daubed with Stars of David to show who is in charge here. The only permitted vehicles are those of the settlers and the Israeli military.

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Jerusalem Diary: Monday 28 January
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bbc News
by Tim Franks - January 29, 2008 - 6:51pm

RAFAH AND GAZA CITY Some came just to gawk, to be part of the moment. Some came to see family they hadn't seen for years. One family, heaving plastic suitcases, told me they were going to Norway. Most came to shop, returning with whatever they could carry or push.   But away from the delight and the novelty down in Rafah, life ground on.  

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Palestinians Rush For Confirmation They Exist
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Inter Press Service (IPS)
by Mona Alami - January 29, 2008 - 6:41pm

The Palestinian Liberation Organisation headquarters in the posh neighbourhood of the now closed Summerland Hotel in Beirut is buzzing with activity. A few men in black, Kalashnikovs firmly in their hands, guard the entrance to the elegant building. A handful of veiled women and older men carrying papers scurry past them up the stairs to the PLO offices.

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Excluding The Militant Group Won't Secure Peace In The Middle East.
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Helena Cobban - (Opinion) January 29, 2008 - 6:40pm

Last week, the Palestinian militant organization Hamas masterminded a spectacular "bust-out" into Egypt of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, where Israel has been maintaining a tight siege for many years. That bust-out reinforced the strength of Hamas's popular support among Palestinians and has started to change the political map of the region.

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Gaza's Falling Wall Changes Middle East Map For Ever
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
January 28, 2008 - 7:25pm

They came and went in lorries and gas tankers, in flatbed trucks loaded with cattle and sheep, in coaches and mini-buses, loaded by the dozen in the backs of trucks, all shuttling across Gaza's southern border. Four days ago they went on foot like refugees, but yesterday for the first time the trucks drove through and it felt like an unstoppable momentum had been reached.

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Bush Hits A Wall In The Mideast
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Jim Hoagland - January 28, 2008 - 7:14pm

Watching Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner and other congressional leaders craft a stimulus package to calm the turbulent economy is like watching President Bush pursue his equally implausible and belated Middle East peace initiative. In each case, the challenges are so much larger than the means suddenly being brought to bear that you don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

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Mary Dejevsky: The Town That Measures Life In 15-second Intervals
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
by Mary Dejevsky - (Opinion) January 25, 2008 - 6:19pm

You can tell almost as much about a country from the things they want you to see as the things they would prefer you didn't. And just now one of things Israel really wants the outside world to see is daily life as it is lived in the depressed southern town of Sderot.

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Bush's Silence Won't Make Israel's Brutality Any Less Counter-productive
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
(Editorial) January 24, 2008 - 6:05pm

Washington's refusal to endorse a draft United Nations Security Council statement condemning Israel's siege of Gaza effectively advocated the collective punishment of 1.4 million Palestinian men, women and children. The US ambassador to the United Nations said that the initial draft statement produced by Libya was "unacceptable" because it did not mention Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel.

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Breach In Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
(Editorial) January 24, 2008 - 5:57pm

THE HAMAS movement provided a dramatic illustration yesterday of its ability to disrupt any movement toward peace between Israelis and Palestinians. As tens of thousands of residents of the Gaza Strip surged across the border into Egypt, Hamas security forces directed traffic; earlier, they stood by as organized groups of militants blew up the fence along the previously sealed border.

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