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Settlements threaten American Jews' connection with Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Eric Yoffie - (Opinion) June 26, 2012 - 12:00am

I spoke a few weeks ago with someone who works with American Jewish organizations in planning programs for their meetings and conventions. “Israel is out,” he told me. The demand for speakers about Israel or from Israel has dropped dramatically over the last decade. American Jews are simply interested in other things.

Yesha leaders come out against extremist violence
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Itamar Fleishman - June 25, 2012 - 12:00am

Yesha Council leaders voiced rare criticism against the violent acts of far Right activists on Sunday after unknown assailants punctured the tires of Yesha official Ze'ev Hever. In a Yesha Council conference in Ofra, chairman Danny Dayan said, "Violence has become common currency in our camps while we remain silent."

Palestinian disinheritance sponsored by Oslo
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Akiva Eldar - (Opinion) June 25, 2012 - 12:00am

It's a shame the police don't show the same determination treating the settlers who invade private Palestinian land as they do evicting the temporary settlers on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard. It's a shame the social justice activists ignore the creeping eviction by the Israeli government in the occupied territories.

PA fines date traders for selling settlement produce
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 21, 2012 - 12:00am

JERICHO (Ma'an) -- PA consumer protection officials fined two traders in the West Bank for selling dates from Israeli settlements in violation of the government's boycott, a press statement said Wednesday. The dealers, from Jericho and Tulkarem, were ordered to pay $11,900 shekels ($3,000) and sign a commitment not to sell settlement goods, the consumer protection unit of the national economy ministry said.

Settlers erect homes, level land by Nablus outposts
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 20, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli settlers have brought 45 caravans to expand settler outposts near Nablus, a local official said Wednesday. Construction began on Monday on three settler outposts adjacent to Eli and Shilo settlements in the northern West Bank, PA official monitoring settler activities Ghassan Daghlas told Ma'an. Bulldozers have razed more than 60,000 square meters of agricultural land near Palestinian villages Jalud, Qaryut and Jurish, he said, noting that settlers had constructed several cement homes and brought in caravans.

The minuses of unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Shaul Arieli - (Opinion) June 19, 2012 - 12:00am

The stalemate in negotiations with the Palestinians and the assumption that it's impossible at present to reach a final-status solution have revived the idea of evacuating part of the West Bank unilaterally. Supporters of this idea believe that current trends, especially the expansion of the settlement enterprise, must be stopped before taking a decision that will anchor the two-state solution. A unilateral evacuation, they believe, will create a two-state reality that will make it easier to implement a final-status agreement.

Netanyahu slams 'price tag' attack on mosque near Ramallah
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
June 19, 2012 - 12:00am

Unknown vandals set fire to a mosque near Ramallah early Tuesday morning, damaging the structure, and sprayed Hebrew slogans against a pending evacuation at a disputed settlement neighborhood. "At one o'clock we heard screaming from the people of the village and realized the mosque was on fire," Jab'a Mayor Abdul Karim Sharaf said, according to The Jerusalem Post. "More than three hundred people awoke and we managed to put it out."

Forced Move Raises Anger in West Bank Villages
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Jodi Rudoren - June 19, 2012 - 12:00am

A Palestinian walked through a mosque in the West Bank town of Jabaa, near Ramallah, that was burned and vandalized on Tuesday.

Extremists' guide to 'struggle against Ulpana evacuation'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Itamar Fleishman - June 18, 2012 - 12:00am

Committing 'price tag' acts, infiltrating IDF bases, blocking roads and protesting outside the homes of senior security establishment officials – this how extreme rightists plan to thwart the evacuation of homes in the Ulpana neighborhood, according to a brochure titled "The practical plan to save the outposts and hills in the Land of Israel."

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