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.

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Anti-Israel aid billboards are taken down
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
June 26, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A subsidiary of the CBS Corp. removed 23 billboards in the Los Angeles area calling for a stop to U.S. foreign assistance to Israel.

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Resolved: This is Not the Road to a Two-State Solution
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Elisheva Goldberg - (Opinion) June 22, 2012 - 12:00am

Earlier this week North Carolina’s Democratic Party considered a resolution that sought to end “Israel’s illegal occupation.” And that’s not all it said: It also called for a “nuclear free zone in the Middle East” i.e.

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Ex-U.S. official: American dominance over Mideast peace process is ending
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Allison Kaplan Sommer - (Opinion) June 21, 2012 - 12:00am

The era of U.S. dominance over the Middle East peace process is coming to an end, a former top American official said at the fourth Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on Thursday, adding that what happens in the Middle East won’t influence the upcoming U.S. presidential elections.

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Five Myths About the US-Israeli Relationship
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor
by Aaron David Miller - (Opinion) June 18, 2012 - 12:00am

Urban legends, fantasies, misconceptions abound in life. But nowhere do they seem to be more pronounced and durable than in the discussion of America's relationship with the State of Israel. Some are simply a result of fuzzy thinking; others flow from the willful propaganda efforts of both the pro and anti-Israeli advocates and the battles they wage for the hearts and minds of the committed and the not-so-committed.

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Romney says he will do the ‘opposite’ of Obama on Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
June 16, 2012 - 12:00am

Mitt Romney told an audience of Christian conservatives that he would do the “opposite” of what President Obama has done when it comes to Israel. “I think, by and large, you can just look at the things the president has done and do the opposite,” Romney said Saturday in an address by video to a conference of the Faith and Freedom Coalition. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and the all but certain Republican presidential nominee, was campaigning in Pennsylvania when the conference took place in Washington.

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Most Israelis think Romney would be 'friendlier'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Herb Keinon - June 15, 2012 - 12:00am

The fact that Israelis have conflicted attitudes toward US President Barack Obama came out loud and clear in a poll released on Thursday. The survey – commissioned by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, the Bar-Ilan University Center for International Communication and the Anti-Defamation League – found that while 51 percent of Israeli Jews believe Obama is “friendly” or “very friendly” toward Israel, more people think the expected Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, would better promote Israel’s interests.

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President Peres awarded Medal of Freedom
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Yitzhak Benhorin - June 14, 2012 - 12:00am

President Shimon Peres was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Wednesday – the highest civilian award the United States government can bestow upon an individual. In a gala dinner held in Washington in Peres' honor, US President Barack Obama praised the Israeli president's legacy and efforts on behalf of peace.

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Obama continues to dither
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
by George S. Hishmeh - (Opinion) June 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Barack Obama has raised great hopes in the Middle East when he was one of only four American presidents to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. But now, almost four years later, he has yet to show any sign of achievement in ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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My Way or the Highway
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Kathleen Peratis - (Opinion) June 13, 2012 - 12:00am

If you say that the peace process, like the Wicked Witch, is not merely dead, but really most sincerely dead, no one will argue with you. Israel and the Palestinian Authority have not had a real negotiating session since September 2010, when so-called “talks” collapsed following a so-called settlement “freeze.” The last sign of life in the peace process was even earlier, in September 2008, when Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas came this close to a deal.

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