Palestinians: US refugee bill may delay peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Hilary Leila Krieger - June 5, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinian advocates are warning that a new US Senate amendment dictating a reporting requirement on the issue of Palestinian refugees could set back efforts to reach a peace deal. The amendment to a bill, recently approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee, mandates that the secretary of state must report how many of the Palestinians serviced by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency fled or left homes in Israel during the War of Independence and how many are only their descendants.

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Palestinians: US refugee bill may delay peace
Media Mention of Ghaith al-Omari In The Jerusalem Post - June 5, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinian advocates are warning that a new US Senate amendment dictating a reporting requirement on the issue of Palestinian refugees could set back efforts to reach a peace deal. The amendment to a bill, recently approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee, mandates that the secretary of state must report how many of the Palestinians serviced by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency fled or left homes in Israel during the War of Independence and how many are only their descendants.

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The peace process comes to an end
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Gulf News
by Adel Safty - (Opinion) June 4, 2012 - 12:00am

One of the most remarkable talents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is his ability to “influence” American public opinion as he once bragged to a family of colonists, unaware that he was being filmed.

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Egypt: 2 American Tourists Are Freed After Being Seized in Sinai Peninsula
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
May 31, 2012 - 12:00am

Two American tourists abducted by Bedouins in the Sinai Peninsula were released unharmed on Thursday after negotiations between local tribesmen and the kidnappers, a security official said. Security officials said the Bedouins seized the two men earlier in the day as they were traveling by car from Dahab to Nuweiba, resort towns on the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba. The two men, in their 30s, had been stopped at a roadblock by protesting Bedouins, who were demanding the release of one of their tribesmen detained in connection with a drug trafficking charge, the officials said.

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Outsiders won’t decide Mideast realities
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
by Daniel Kurtzer - (Opinion) May 25, 2012 - 12:00am

“Revolutions revolve 360 degrees,” wrote the late Middle East economic historian Charles Issawi. What we didn’t know yesterday about Middle East revolutions – and we didn’t know a great deal – becomes less relevant as the days fly by, for these revolutions, like all others that preceded them, are works in progress, changing constantly.

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Status Update
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy
by Jonathan Schanzer - (Opinion) May 22, 2012 - 12:00am

A war is brewing on Capitol Hill. And while wars tend to create refugees, this one may result in fewer of them.

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How Obama Missed an Opportunity for Middle East Peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy
by PJ Dermer, Steve White - (Opinion) May 18, 2012 - 12:00am

"We were fond together, because of the sweep of the open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The moral freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up in ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for. We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: Yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew." – T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat: For a more constructive Congress on Palestine
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Hill
by Maen Areikat - (Opinion) May 14, 2012 - 12:00am

The past few weeks have seen interesting statements by several former and current Israeli officials criticizing the policies of their government. They particularly focused on Israel’s failure to engage in talks with the Palestinians to end the conflict.

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In Ramallah, Clinton Tech Advisor Says US Backs Open Internet
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
May 3, 2012 - 12:00am

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top technology adviser told a group of Palestinian bloggers Wednesday that efforts to censor the Internet would ultimately backfire. 

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US concerned by Palestinian Web blocking
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
April 25, 2012 - 12:00am

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The United States said Wednesday it was concerned by efforts to restrict Palestinian access to information on the Internet and would raise the issue with the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority recently began blocking access to as many as eight opposition news websites, according to Palestinian officials who oppose the decision.

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