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Build two-state bridges not walls
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Ibrahim Shomali - (Opinion) February 12, 2013 - 1:00am

Today, an Israeli court in Tel Aviv will decide the fate of our land. It will judge whether Israel’s annexation Wall will be built right through the heart of our community.

Does the Mossad still use the passports of immigrants to Israel?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Anshel Pfeffer - February 12, 2013 - 1:00am

Despite repeated promises by the Israeli government that the Mossad will cease to use the passports and identities of citizens of foreign countries, it seems that the practice has continued in recent years. Among countries involved have been Australia, Britain, France and Germany.

Toward a New Palestinian Strategy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Ayyam
by Atef Abu Saif - February 11, 2013 - 1:00am

The deadlock in the Palestinian political scene is not a historical coincidence or the result of a single factor, but of many.

Israeli troops detain AP photographer
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Josef Federman - February 10, 2013 - 1:00am

Israeli troops detained an Associated Press photographer during West Bank unrest over the weekend, handcuffing him and forcing him to sit on the ground without food or water or access to a bathroom for roughly five hours, according to eyewitness accounts. The photographer, Nasser Shiyoukhi, was released without charge after Saturday's incident.

Former Shin Bet head: All interrogations should be videotaped
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - February 8, 2013 - 1:00am

Ahmadinejad: Iran already a nuclear state, but has no intention of launching attack on Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Jack Khoury - February 6, 2013 - 1:00am

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that while Iran is already a nuclear state, it has no intention of attacking Israel.

Herzog, Fayyad meet, warn of PA collapse
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
February 5, 2013 - 1:00am

Labor MK Isaac Herzog met with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah on Monday and warned that the collapse of the PA would be "catastrophic" for Israel. Fayyad told Herzog that Israel's continual withholding of tax revenues to the PA and the failure of donor states to transfer promised aid to the West Bank had the Palestinian Authority on the brink of collapse.

Israel arrests 20 Hamas members in West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Mohammed Daraghmeh - February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

Israeli forces arrested 20 members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, including three lawmakers, in a raid early Monday in the West Bank, Hamas officials said. The Israeli military confirmed arrests were made but would not elaborate further.

Israel’s ‘Gatekeepers’ break their silence
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Richard Cohen - (Film Review) February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

Imagine six former directors of the CIA talking with a distinguished filmmaker and confessing to the murder of two terrorism suspects, ordering the assassination of others, alleging a lack of real leadership by the president and stating to the camera and the entire world that the war in Afghanistan is an unconscionable botch — a bloody, daily slog without end or justification. This, of course, could never happen in the United States. It did, though, in Israel.

‘The Gatekeepers’ is a harsh portrayal of life outside the ghetto of self-denial
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chemi Shalev - (Film Review) February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

The Gatekeepers is a very Israeli film. It is a film by Israelis, for Israelis and about Israelis. Even if it wins an Oscar. Even if you read the English subtitles. Even if you’ve heard that it mainly deals with the occupation, which it does, it is still essentially and exclusively Israeli.

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