Is U.S. going above and beyond for Israel?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Walter Pincus - (Opinion) May 16, 2012 - 12:00am

Should the United States put solving Israel’s budget problems ahead of its own? When it comes to defense spending, it appears that the United States already is.

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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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Clinton to Netanyahu: Use unity cabinet to advance Mideast peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - May 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Washington hopes the new, expanded coalition will enable Israel to take steps to advance peace talks with the Palestinians, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday. Over the past few years, Netanyahu has repeatedly claimed that he couldn't make certain gestures toward the Palestinians for fear that it would topple his government, which relied on smaller parties to his right.

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Israel in Peril
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Review Of Books
by David Shulman - (Book Review) May 9, 2012 - 12:00am

On April 15 of this year I was returning to Israel on an Alitalia flight from Rome. About forty minutes before landing in Tel Aviv, the captain informed us that Israel had announced extraordinary security measures, constricting its air space in response to an unusual threat, and that from that moment on—we were still high above the Mediterranean—until we would be allowed to leave the terminal, all photography was strictly forbidden; beyond that, we were to follow the instructions of Israeli security personnel on the ground.

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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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Israel in disarray
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
by George S. Hishmeh - (Opinion) May 3, 2012 - 12:00am

Since the criticism, last Friday, by a key secret service official of the right-wing Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his wishy washy Labourite defence minister, Ehud Barak, the Israeli establishment appears to be in a serious state of disarray.

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Israel Takes Command of 4th Dolphin Class Sub
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
May 3, 2012 - 12:00am

  JERUSALEM, May 3 (Xinhua) -- With a ceremonial smashing of a champagne bottle against the hull, Israel on Thursday took the helm of its fourth submarine at a German shipyard.

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Explosive Dust-Up Over Iran Policy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by J.J. Goldberg - (Opinion) May 2, 2012 - 12:00am

On a sunny Sunday afternoon in late April, Israel put its raucous, divided political culture on full exhibition in New York for a day — and New York did not like what it saw.

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Obama’s missteps
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
by George S. Hishmeh - (Opinion) April 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Why did Barack Obama have to go the Holocaust Museum in Washington to criticise an Arab government, Syria’s, much as the country’s long-serving leadership is the target of international and Arab criticism for its brutal policies? Is it reasonable to believe that he did not have any other option in America’s spacious capital city which has several university campuses, institutions and government halls than the controversial museum which raised eyebrows when it was founded, since the US and American citizens had no role in the dastardly act of the Nazis?

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US House Panel adds $68om. For Iron Dome
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Hilary Leila Krieger - April 27, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON – A US House subcommittee voted Thursday to dedicate an additional $680 million in funding for Israel’s short-range missile defense system. The move by a House Armed Services subcommittee adds the funding for the Iron Dome program on top of nearly $100m. in US assistance for medium- and long-range missile defense and $3.1 billion in other military assistance that comes from the State Department budget.

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