Behold, Rachel, behold
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) August 30, 2012 - 12:00am

The spring of 2003 was an atrocious spring. An intifada was raging in the streets of Israel; explosives were going off next to the Gaza-Egyptian border, along the Philadelphi Route, and in Rafah, bulldozers mowed down hundreds of Palestinian homes, many of them belonging to innocent people. A few months earlier, a young American woman had arrived in Rafah from Olympia, Washington.

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Rachel Corrie verdict exposes Israeli military mindset
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Chris McGreal - (Opinion) August 28, 2012 - 12:00am

Reporters covering Israel are routinely confronted with the question: why not call Hamas a terrorist organisation? It's a fair point. How else to describe blowing up families on buses but terrorism?

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Bulldozing the Special Relationship
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy
by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) August 28, 2012 - 12:00am

Only the most naive observers would be surprised by the verdict from an Israeli court on the civil case brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie, the American activist killed in 2003 at the hands of the Israeli military. The court ruled this week that Israel was not responsible for the death of the 23-year-old student, referring to it as a "regrettable accident" that Corrie herself could have prevented by staying out of the area.

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Bulldozing the Special Relationship
In Print by Hussein Ibish - Foreign Policy (Opinion) - August 28, 2012 - 12:00am

Only the most naive observers would be surprised by the verdict from an Israeli court on the civil case brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie, the American activist killed in 2003 at the hands of the Israeli military. The court ruled this week that Israel was not responsible for the death of the 23-year-old student, referring to it as a "regrettable accident" that Corrie herself could have prevented by staying out of the area.

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Family of slain US activist awaits verdict
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Diaa Hadid - August 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Almost a decade after their daughter was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she tried to block its path in a Gaza Strip conflict zone, Rachel Corrie's parents are preparing for a judge's ruling in their high-profile civil lawsuit against the military. They hope Tuesday's court decision will conclude a case that's turned their daughter into a rallying cry for pro-Palestinian activists, taken years of their life and drained their savings.

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What can we learn from the Rachel Corrie case
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amira Hass - (Opinion) August 27, 2012 - 12:00am

On a foggy winter morning in early 1967, several young men were strolling through London's Hampstead Heath park. One was carrying a bucket, an odd sight, but it didn't attract any attention. The young men had deliberately picked a time when the park was fairly empty to carry out their intention without being impeded: the first successful trial of a leaflet bomb, a pre-Internet era invention.

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Israel, U.S. divided over latest IAEA report on Iran
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - August 26, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel and the United States are split over the significance of a new International Atomic Energy Agency report expected to accuse Iran of installing hundreds of new centrifuges at its underground enrichment facility near Qom. Israel believes that the IAEA report, due to be published this week, backs up claims that Tehran has accelerated its nuclear project. The White House, however, insists that the findings do nothing to alter the working assumption that there is still time to resolve the crisis diplomatically.

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Israel's inquiry into death of activist Rachel Corrie not credible, says US
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
by Donald MacIntyre - August 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel has failed to carry out the "thorough, credible and transparent investigation" it had promised into the death of American activist Rachel Corrie in Gaza nine years ago, the US ambassador in Tel Aviv has reiterated to her family.

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On Iran: How to Repair the Widening American-Israeli Rift
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Israel Policy Forum
by Ephraim Sneh - (Opinion) August 24, 2012 - 12:00am

The Islamist takeover in the Middle East and North Africa has created perilous strategic turbulence in the region. Consequently, it is now critically important that the United States and its few allies cooperate closely. Unfortunately, this has not been the case in recent weeks for US-Israel relations regarding Iran’s nuclear program. The disagreement about attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities has turned into ugly bickering, much of it disguised. This is harmful for both Israel and the United States.

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Why the American silence on Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Gulf News
by George S. Hishmeh - (Opinion) August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

It is a fact of life that in an American national elections, held once in four years, foreign policy is not a contentious issue. But this time around the policies of Israel, a revered ally of various US administrations, has time and again hit the front pages and, occasionally, the opinion pages of leading US newspapers but with hardly any serious criticism.

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