What Does 'Death to Israel' Mean to You?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Huffington Post
by Bradley Burston - (Opinion) November 7, 2011 - 1:00am

My daughter went to school this morning worried about her civics exam. She came home worried about explosive warheads. As of this week, she's in range. Her school is now within reach of rockets that travel farther and with far more deadly payloads than the weapons we knew just a short time ago. With blasts strong enough to shatter apartment windows seven stories in the air.

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Israeli army, intel sites down after 'Anonymous' threat
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
(Analysis) November 7, 2011 - 1:00am

The Israeli army and intelligence agencies' websites were offline on Sunday, two days after hacker group Anonymous warned it would "strike back" for Israel's capture of Gaza-bound ships on Friday. Anonymous, a network of online activists who have attacked government and financial websites around the world, released a statement Friday warning that the group would take action against the navy's seizure of two ships aiming to break Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip.

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Israel’s saber rattling against Iran
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News
by Uri Avnery - (Opinion) November 7, 2011 - 1:00am

Everybody knows the scene from school: A small boy quarrels with a bigger boy. “Hold me back!” he shouts to his comrades, “Before I break his bones!” Our government seems to be behaving in this way. Every day, via all channels, it shouts that it is going, any minute now, to break the bones of Iran.

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This is Israel? Not the one I love
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Chronicle
by Jonathan Freedland - (Opinion) November 7, 2011 - 1:00am

All credit to Israel's friends in the British Jewish community: they are nothing if not energetic. A matter of months after they gathered for BICOM's We Believe in Israel rally in London, they are now erecting a Big Tent for Israel in Manchester. According to an ad for a spin-off event, once again the focus will be the "delegitimisation of Israel".

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PA: Hackers attack Internet in Palestine
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
November 2, 2011 - 12:00am

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – The Palestinian Authority minister of telecommunications said Tuesday that hackers from more than 20 countries attacked the telecommunications network, interrupting all cable-based services. Mashhour Abu Daqqa said the Palestinian telecommunications company PalTel recorded some 1 million attacks per second on the Palestinian grid, a coordinated effort disrupting services across the occupied territories. Specialists are dealing with the problem and trying to prevent the full collapse of Internet services in Palestine, Abu Daqqa said.

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After Shalit, some IDF officers see dead soldier as better than abducted
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amos Harel - (Analysis) November 1, 2011 - 12:00am

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz reiterated on Monday that the so-called Hannibal Protocol, designed to prevent soldiers from being abducted, does not allow for a soldier to be killed in order to prevent his abduction. Gantz was addressing the IDF's operations forum, which includes combat unit commanders at the rank of lieutenant colonel and above. Much of the meeting was devoted to discussing the lessons of the Gilad Shalit episode.

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Analysis: How Islamic Jihad is becoming a threat to Hamas
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Khaled Abu Toameh - October 31, 2011 - 12:00am

Once Hamas was the second- largest armed group in the Gaza Strip, after the Palestinian Authority. With the help of Iran and Syria, Hamas became so strong that one day, in June 2007, its men managed to seize control over the entire Strip. In recent years, however, Hamas has found itself in the same position as the PA was back then. Now it’s the Islamic Jihad organization that has replaced Hamas as the second- largest armed group in the Gaza Strip. Today, it poses a serious challenge to the Hamas government.

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Israelis, Palestinians Deploy New Technology in Fighting
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by David Rosenberg - October 30, 2011 - 12:00am

The flare-up in fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza that left 10 dead before a ceasefire gradually took hold on Sunday was as much a showcase for military technology as it was a forceful statement of the two sides’ political agenda. Islamic Jihad, the biggest of the Gaza-based Palestinian movements responsible for the three-day barrage, showed off a multi-barreled rocket launcher mounted on a light truck, a weapon platform not seen to date in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel put its Iron Dome anti-rocket network into use for the third time since it was unveiled in April.

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Former U.S. envoy: Mideast peace stalemate could lead to West Bank violence
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - October 26, 2011 - 12:00am

The United States' former special envoy for Mideast peace warned recently that the continued impasse in diplomatic contacts between Israel and the Palestinians is liable to ignite violence on the West Bank. In a lecture delivered last week at London's Chatham House, George Mitchell stressed that the Shalit release deal strengthened Hamas, and weakened Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

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Netanyahu is holding Israel hostage
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Akiva Eldar - (Opinion) October 24, 2011 - 12:00am

When you hugged Gilad Shalit's fragile body to your chest, perhaps you thought of your brother Yoni, who gave his life for the ethos that one doesn't negotiate with terrorists. When you heard the cries of joy in Gaza at the sight of the murderers you had set free, perhaps you recalled the countless speeches you gave, and the book you wrote, about the necessity of waging an uncompromising war on terror: They are what paved your way from a Jerusalem furniture factory to Israel's top job. And one can safely assume your elderly father wasn't enthusiastic over your "capitulation to terror."

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