Mitt's Trip to Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
(Editorial) July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

President Obama’s critics like to acknowledge that official visits to foreign countries are more about style than substance, but when it comes to Israel, that’s a disingenuous feint. As Mitt Romney, presidential candidate, takes his campaign to Israel, conservative pundits see an opportunity to point out that Barack Obama hasn’t been there since moving into the White House.

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Mitt's Pilgrimage
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy
by Oren Kessler - (Opinion) July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

The U.S. presidential race might be deadlocked, but when Mitt Romney visits Israel on Sunday, July 29, the presumptive Republican nominee can reasonably expect the most heartfelt welcome he'll receive anywhere outside Utah. Israeli enthusiasm for Romney is not necessarily the result of a carefully cultivated relationship -- as a former governor and business executive he had little time for foreign policy. Instead, affection for the candidate appears to be a clear case of ABO: Anyone But Obama.

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Give Palestinian Third Parties a Chance
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Michael Sharnoff - (Opinion) July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

No, Dani Dayan, the status quo in the West Bank cannot continue. 

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Lara Friedman Responds to Dani Dayan
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Lara Friedman - (Opinion) July 26, 2012 - 12:00am

Today’s New York Times features an op-ed by Dani Dayan, the head of the Yesha Council (the group that represents settlers and their interests).

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Warning: Turbulence Ahead
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy
by Aaron David Miller - (Opinion) July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

"Everybody knows that relations with Israel have never been worse." So thundered the venerable John McCain, foreign policy preacher and iconoclast par excellence, in a sermon from the mountaintop on one of last Sunday's talk shows. The Arizona senator was commenting on President Barack Obama's claim last week in Palm Beach, one he has oft repeated on the campaign trail, that U.S.-Israeli ties are stronger than ever.

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Birthright’s triumphs and flaws
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
by Rachel Cohen - (Opinion) July 25, 2012 - 12:00am

After being privileged last year to go on a Taglit-Birthright trip with 40 students from Johns Hopkins University, last month I traveled with 12 other student leaders to Israel and the West Bank with J Street U. Since then I’ve been reflecting a great deal on these two very different experiences.

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Mideastern poker game
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Orly Azoulay - (Editorial) July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Barack Obama was a distinguished poker player: As a high school student in Hawaii, he would sit at street corners and defeat anyone who played against him. He did the same during his college days in California: He would walk around the dorms holding a whiskey bottle and a deck of cards, looking for players who would challenge him.

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Israel Stands to Gain From Assad's Ouster
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'ariv
by Eli Avidar - (Opinion) July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Ever since the demonstrations began in Syria in January 2011, the world has waited for a tie-breaking development in the struggle between the regime and the rebels.

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Romney slams Obama for 'lecturing Israel's leaders'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Leading into his major trip to the UK, Israel and Poland to highlight his foreign policy competence and positions, US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday lashed out at US President Barack Obama for "lecturing Israel's leaders."

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Levy Report Tests American Consensus
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Paul Berger - July 20, 2012 - 12:00am

The American Jewish Committee, a centrist pillar of America’s organized Jewish community, is breaking with the long-standing establishment consensus that settlements on the Israeli-occupied West Bank pose no impediment to peace. The committee, in a press release issued on July 12, affirmed the legality of settlements throughout the West Bank and rejected the notion that the territory was under legal occupation.

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