Palestinians still need visa to enter Egypt: Airport source
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ahram Online
July 23, 2012 - 12:00am

A source at Cairo Airport told Ahram Online employees have not received any instructions to allow Palestinians to enter Egypt without a visa. Earlier on Monday, Associated Press news agency quoted Egyptian Airport officials saying that Egypt has started allowing Palestinians free entry into the country, ending part of a five-year blockade on the Gaza Strip. The decision would mean Palestinians can freely leave Gaza, says AP, pointing out that the decision also applies to Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

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A Palestinian in Jerusalem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from International Herald Tribune
by Raja Shehadeh - (Blog) July 19, 2012 - 12:00am

Jerusalem — As a tourist visiting the Old City of Jerusalem, seeing Christians, Jews and Muslims walking side by side, hearing church bells ringing and Muslims being called to prayer, you might think the place is a model of tolerance. As a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem, you think differently.

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Israeli troops kill man crossing illegally from Egypt
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
July 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli troops shot dead a man trying to infiltrate the Sinai border with Egypt and wounded another on Friday, the Israeli military said, in the latest in a series of deadly incidents along a once quiet frontier. Both men, who crossed the desert border under cover of darkness, turned out to be unarmed when Israeli medics found them after dawn, a military spokeswoman said. She would not divulge the identities or nationalities of the infiltrators though Israeli media said they were Palestinians from the nearby Gaza Strip.

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Israel denies 300 Palestinian couples from uniting
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Gulf News
by Nasouh Nazzal - June 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Ramallah: Hassan Mansour, a resident of the city of Nablus on the West Bank, has dedicated his recent life to bringing his Gazan wife Rinad to live with him, but Israeli authorities have rejected all requests from both husband and wife. For the past two years the couple have attempted to unite, but have not been granted permission by Israel. They have approached legal and human rights organisations and lodged several complaints with various courts, but have not achieved success.

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Israel jittery after Brotherhood victory in Egypt
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Josef Federman - June 25, 2012 - 12:00am

The Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egyptian presidential elections, announced Sunday, has raised fears in Israel that its strategic 1979 peace agreement with its southern neighbor could be in danger. In contrast, in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, ecstatic residents flocked into the streets, fired guns in the air and handed out candy in celebration. Israel's peace agreement with Egypt, its first with an Arab country, is a cornerstone of Israeli security. The agreement ended decades of hostilities, with to five wars and thousands of deaths.

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The affable face of evil
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) June 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli evil wears many faces these days. There are the rude, the crude and the thuggish, who still manage to generate some heat: When MK Miri Regev goes off on one of her jingoist, gutter-talk rampages - "the 'infiltrators' are a cancer" - some people are still shocked. The same goes for her partner in base incitement, MK Danny Danon, known for spouting his own swinish pearls of wisdom, or Interior Minister Eli Yishai, no piker when it comes to bandying about inflammatory language about crime or about spreading disease.

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West Bank workers protest at Israeli crossing point
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
June 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Hundreds of Palestinian workers demonstrated in front of an Israeli crossing point in the West Bank Wednesday, demanding Israeli forces to treat them better when they pass through. The workers suspended the movement through al-Jalama crossing between Jenin City and Israel for two hours, an official from the Palestinian Workers Union said.

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Israel's 'Real' Challenges Much Closer Than Iran
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'ariv
by Hanan Greenberg - (Opinion) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

While all eyes seem to be fixed on Iran, the IDF’s main focus is on threats emerging a car-drive away from Tel Aviv. In a special conversation, the operations officers of the IDF’s four commands tell Maariv about their military activities that involve daily attempts to kidnap soldiers, the escalation of “price-tag” activities (a violent retribution campaign by fundamentalist Israeli youths against Palestinians), the heating up of the Egyptian border and the fragile peace in the north.

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Israel asks Arab visitors to open emails to search
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Josef Federman - June 4, 2012 - 12:00am

When Sandra Tamari arrived at Israel's international airport, she received an unusual request: A security agent pushed a computer screen in front of her, connected to Gmail and told her to "log in." The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evidence. The 42-year-old American of Palestinian descent refused and was swiftly expelled from the country.

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Israel is doing everything to separate Gaza, West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amira Hass - (Opinion) May 23, 2012 - 12:00am

An elephant will be sitting Wednesday in the courtroom of Supreme Court justices Asher Grunis, Salim Joubran and Noam Sohlberg. The elephant will occupy the places of the five plaintiffs, who will be absent: five women from the Gaza Strip who were accepted into Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. Four want to go on to a master's degree in gender studies.

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