Hamas targets Israeli-Palestinian talks by killing four Israelis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Joshua Mitnick - August 31, 2010 - 12:00am

As Middle Eastern leaders gathered in Washington to inaugurate a new round of Israeli-Palestinian talks, Hamas gunmen killed four Israeli settlers in their car outside the West Bank city of Hebron. The attack appeared to be an attempt to spark violence that could undermine the peace negotiations and was a stark reminder that the Islamist Hamas movement remains an important force in Palestinian politics, no matter how much either the Israelis or the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas wish they would go away.

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Stand against Israel's extremists
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Washington Jewish Week
by Ori Nir - (Opinion) August 6, 2010 - 12:00am

Israeli soldiers last week again had to chase lawless settlers on the hills of the West Bank. This time, it was settlers from Yitzhar and Bracha, near Nablus, who vandalized Palestinian property, blocked roads, torched fields, sabotaged Israel Defense Forces vehicles, punched, kicked Israeli police officers, cursed and harassed them and resisted arrest -- all in reaction to the demolition of two illegally built structures at an outpost near Yitzhar.

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Shin Bet: Suspected Jewish terrorist Pearlman didn't work alone
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Liel Kyzer - August 5, 2010 - 12:00am

The Shin Bet security service and the police believe that Chaim Pearlman, suspected of murdering four Palestinians and wounding several others, committed the acts attributed to him with the help of accomplices. The suspicions emerged at Pearlman's remand in a Petach Tikvah court. Pearlman's remand was extended by six days. Sources close to Pearlman said "There has been no progress in the investigation ever since he was arrested. The Shin Bet insists on holding him for no reason."

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Rattling the Cage: One man’s terrorist ...
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Larry Derfner - (Opinion) July 29, 2010 - 12:00am

One evening about 20 years ago, someone with a “Middle Eastern accent” called the Knesset and said a bomb was set to go off. I was working at The Jerusalem Post that night, and I can’t remember how much advance time the caller gave, but security guards went all around the Knesset and informed everyone, and some people left, but many stayed. It turned out there was no bomb.

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Islamic Jihad man killed in south Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
July 23, 2010 - 12:00am

A fighter with the Al-Quds Brigades was killed in southern Gaza on Thursday night, the Islamic Jihad movement announced, saying the death came as the young man performed a "Jihadist mission." In a statement mourning the loss of Hatem Mohammad Al-Bardawil, 22, the brigades explained that he was "killed in a missile shelling that targeted him while he was on a mission” east of Al-Qararra, near Khan Younis.

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Police suspect alleged Jewish terrorist killed four Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chaim Levinson - July 15, 2010 - 12:00am

A right-wing Israeli extremist arrested this week over a string of stabbing attacks is suspected of murdering four Palestinians and attempting to murder another seven, according to details of the investigation released on Thursday. Chaim Pearlman was arrested Tuesday, initially on suspicion of carrying out two murders in 1998, and for a series of attacks on other Palestinian victims over the last 12 years. The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court on Thursday extended his remand by six days.

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Shin Bet challenged by cases of Jewish terror
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amos Harel - July 15, 2010 - 12:00am

Suspicions against a member of the extreme right wing, Chaim Pearlman, link him to cases of Jewish terrorism that have yet to be solved: the murder of two Arabs, stabbed to death in Jerusalem more than a decade ago. In the police files and at the Jewish Division of the Shin Bet, there are a number of such conundrums left, and first and foremost among them is a series of shooting attacks in which Palestinians were murdered on West Bank roads during the early part of the past decade.

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Funding Israeli Terrorism
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Asharq Alawsat
by Hussein Shobokshi - July 13, 2010 - 12:00am

Amidst the continuous talk about the stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinians on one hand, and the war on terrorism and the attempts to hunt down the major terrorist financiers on the other, an extremely important issue that is closely related to both of the above topics is being overlooked. I am talking about the financing of illegal Israeli settlements and the heavily armed militias that kill Palestinians in cold blood without any fear of punishment.

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A jihad’s inspiration
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Boston Globe
by Philip Smucker - July 12, 2010 - 12:00am

AMID THE frosty peaks of the Hindu Kush, I imagined the echo of George W. Bush’s words, “Justice will be done!’’ rebounding through the boulders like a snow leopard on the prowl. Nearly nine years after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, it is worth remembering that killing or capturing Osama bin Laden was once front and center of the US government’s anti-terrorism policy.

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Study: Trauma influences Gazan terror
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Judy Siegel - July 9, 2010 - 12:00am

An international study of Gazan teens has found that those who most supported terrorism have at least one family member who was wounded or killed by IDF action against terrorism. The team, led by human aggression expert Prof. Jeff Victoroff at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, said that the most militant and aggressive youth are more closely linked to “past trauma and perceived political injustice, rather than to aggression.”

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