Dept. of Justice response on prosecuting Palestinian killers unsatisfying for lawmakers
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
by Zach Silberman - April 18, 2012 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- U.S. House lawmakers want more answers after the Department of Justice reiterated the obstacles it says stand in the way of prosecuting alleged Palestinian terrorists who killed Americans. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Welch in his April 5 letter was responding to a March 1 letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder from Congress members that called on Holder to pursue prosecutions against Palestinian terrorists who were responsible for killing Americans and were recently released by Israel as part of the deal to free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

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Foreign policy in shadow of Holocaust
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Jonathan Rosen - (Opinion) April 18, 2012 - 12:00am

Holocaust Remembrance Day presents Israelis with an opportunity to rise above their mundane pursuits and trivial concerns to honor the memory of the victims and survivors of the Nazi death machine. No less importantly, this day is an occasion for Israeli citizens, both as individuals and as members of broader communities, to reflect on the enduring mesh of personal, national and universal lessons that are to be drawn from the Holocaust.

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Title VI should be used only on true hatemongers, not political opponents
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
by David. A.M. Wilensky - (Opinion) April 18, 2012 - 12:00am

NEW YORK (JTA) – In the eyes of the Zionist Organization of America, the most depraved enemies of the Jewish people are obnoxious college campus loudmouths. As the editor of New Voices, a national magazine by and for Jewish college students, I have a different perspective. The ZOA led the campaign to have discrimination against Jewish students recognized as a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, originally passed in 1964 to remedy racial discrimination in programs that receive federal funding. But in its charge to circle the Jewish communal wagons, the ZOA has overreached.

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Barak says Israel never ruled out attacking Iran
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Aron Heller - April 17, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday his country has never promised the United States it would hold off from attacking Iran while nuclear talks were taking place. The comments, in which Barak said that a diplomatic push to reach a compromise with Iran was a waste of "precious time," further exposed a rift between Israel and the U.S. over how to deal with the Islamic Republic and its nuclear program.

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Jews Cast Wary Eye on Evangelicals
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Nathan Guttman - April 16, 2012 - 12:00am

Washington — Advocates for improved relations between Jews and Christian evangelicals had hoped that years of working together to support Israel would build bridges between the two otherwise distant communities. But a new poll indicates that mistrust and suspicion still run deep, at least on the Jewish side. Only one in five Jewish Americans holds favorable views of those aligned with the Christian right, a category that includes most of Israel’s evangelical supporters.

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Hussein Ibish Is Not a Zionist
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Atlantic
by Jeffrey Goldberg - (Opinion) April 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Hussein Ibish, of the American Task Force on Palestine, has written an extremely sensible piece about Middle East pragmatism, in which he takes on advocates of the so-called one-state solution, who argue, among other things, that any Arab who supports a two-state solution is an Uncle Tom, or worse, an actual Zionist:

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The case for a West Bank settlement boycott
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Chronicle
by Michael Zigmond - (Opinion) April 12, 2012 - 12:00am

Imagine that a well-known American journalist publishes a book entitled, “Saving Israel.” His thesis: Israel must hold on to Judea and Samaria. He notes that Israel is the only country in the world dedicated to providing a safe haven for Jews and the only true democracy in the Middle East. He points out that Arabs living in Judea and Samaria, or “Palestinians,” are among the most prosperous in the Middle East.

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Israel should refrain from public calls to free Jonathan Pollard
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
(Editorial) April 11, 2012 - 12:00am

On Monday, under pressure from Jonathan Pollard's wife and activists campaigning for his release, President Shimon Peres asked U.S. President Barack Obama to free the convicted spy, who is serving a life term for spying against the United States on Israel's behalf.

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Israeli Arab MK threatens to file libel suit against envoy to U.S.
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - April 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi submitted an official complaint to the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, following an article by Israel's envoy to the U.S. Michael Oren, according to which Tibi had retained his position as deputy Knesset speaker despite his support of suicide bombers. In an article published last week in the Foreign Policy magazine, titled "Israel's Resilient Democracy," Oren claimed that Israel's Arab citizens enjoyed equal rights, and that Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion emphasized that Arab citizens must be allowed to vote and be elected to the Knesset.

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A Dose of Nuance: Peter Beinart's mis-identity crisis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Daniel Gordis - April 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Peter Beinart is right. The relationship between American Jews and the Jewish state is indeed in crisis. Beinart and his title are just wrong about what the crisis is. What we face, as his book accidentally demonstrates, is not The Crisis of Zionism, but a crisis of American Judaism.

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