US: Israel "supportive" on future Iran sanctions
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Dan Williams - June 4, 2012 - 12:00am

The United States is conferring with Israel about new sanctions planned against Iran should international negotiations this month fail to curb the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme, a U.S. official said on Monday. The comment offered a strong hint that Washington is continuing to apply the brakes on any plan by Israel to attack Iranian nuclear facilities preemptively.

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A Concert of Kahanists
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Elisheva Goldberg - (Opinion) June 4, 2012 - 12:00am

Yesterday, for the nineteenth year running, in a concert in Central Park, American Orthodox Jewry and the Israeli right unapologetically laid claim to the Whole Land of Israel.

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Defining a Palestinian refugee a US complication
Media Mention of Hussein Ibish In Associated Press - May 31, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON—A simple congressional request for the United States to distinguish between Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict and millions of their descendants poses a high-stakes diplomatic and political challenge for President Barack Obama.

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Israeli Politicians Court American Donors
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Nathan Guttman - (Opinion) May 30, 2012 - 12:00am

For wealthy Americans these days, appeals for political contributions from candidates, party committees and now from super PACs seem never-ending. But for wealthy American Jews involved with Israel, there is, increasingly, yet one more hand outstretched, from abroad, seeking political largesse. Israeli candidates, vying for seats in the Knesset, the country’s parliament, have found a reliable funding base in American Jews willing to add their dollars to the pile of shekels fueling primary races in Israel’s major political parties.

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Divergent Path on Israel Helps Lobby Group Grow
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Eric Lichtblau - May 30, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON — There was a time not so long ago when political contributions from Americans supportive of Israel inevitably veered toward those Congressional candidates who were the most hawkish and outspoken in defending Israel and its security.

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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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State Dep’t Opposes Senate Bid to Determine How Many Palestinians Are Genuine Refugees
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from CNS News
by Patrick Goodenough - May 25, 2012 - 12:00am

(CNSNews.com) – After intervention by the State Department, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday reworked an amendment to a foreign operations appropriations bill, watering down language that sought to establish the actual number of Palestinians that could legitimately be called refugees.

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U.S. to reaffirm commitment to Israel's security
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
May 25, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - A senior State Department official will travel to Tel Aviv on Friday to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to Israel's security following just-concluded talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program. Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, will discuss bilateral and regional issues with senior Israeli officials during her visit, the State Department said in a statement on Thursday.

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Senate distinguishes between Palestinian refugees and descendants
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
May 25, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved language that would distinguish between Palestinian refugees alive in 1948 and their descendants.

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Legislating the Refugee Problem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Lara Friedman - (Opinion) May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

You have to laugh, or it would make you cry. That is, if you are someone who genuinely cares about Israel and believes that the two-state solution is the only thing that can save Israel as a democracy and a Jewish state, and that can end the occupation and permit the Palestinians to live, finally, as a free people with dignity and self-determination.

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