American view(s) on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Natasha Mozgovaya - July 19, 2011 - 12:00am

"I don't like to use this word 'settlers,'" says the speaker, who notes he's as Israeli as Israelis who don't live in the territories. No objections from the Jewish Community Center audience in Silver Spring, Maryland. The event, entitled 'Meet Israelis Living in the Heartland of Israel," took place last Sunday.

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Michele Bachmann’s Hazardous Love for Israel: Jeffrey Goldberg
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bloomberg
by Jeffrey Goldberg - (Opinion) July 19, 2011 - 12:00am

Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman and Republican candidate for president, is making a muscular showing in the polls. She is telegenic. She is clever. Some of her Republican opponents worry she may be unstoppable. But never fear, oh Republican opponents of Michele Bachmann: I’ve devised a fail-safe way to bring her to a state of cognitive paralysis. This method will require some travel on her part. Bachmann’s destination: the Tel Aviv gay-pride parade.

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Peace process is crumbling
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Gulf News
by Adel Saft - (Opinion) July 18, 2011 - 12:00am

The unrealised peace process recently suffered some setbacks. Last week, the members of the Quartet (US, Russia, UN and the EU) — the driving force behind the peace process — met in Washington. They took stock of the growing gap between the parties and the obvious dead-end the parties and the Quartet had reached.

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Netanyahu does not seek peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Gulf News
by Patrick Seale - (Opinion) July 15, 2011 - 12:00am

Yigal Amir has good reason for quiet satisfaction. Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin knows that the three shots he fired on the night of November 4, 1995, slammed shut the door on peace and changed the course of Israeli history.

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Two Revolutions and the Crises They Created
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Forward
by J.J. Goldberg - (Editorial) July 14, 2011 - 12:00am

If it feels as though we’re living through strange, frightening times, that’s because we are. The planet is experiencing a wrenching atmospheric change, what with biblical-scale storms and droughts, disappearing polar ice caps, rising oceans and endangered crop cycles. The nations, particularly in the 1.5 billion-strong Muslim world, are undergoing a collective nervous breakdown that spills over into the West and strains the moorings of the democratic Enlightenment. The economy teeters like a table that’s lost a leg.

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News Analysis: New U.S. ambassador to Israel to have limited role
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
by Adam Gonn - July 11, 2011 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Sworn in as the new United States Ambassador to Israel on Friday, Dan Shapiro is expected, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, to help the Obama administration "write a new chapter in the enduring partnership between the United States and Israel."

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'US made a really concerted effort to support Israel'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Herb Keinon - July 8, 2011 - 12:00am

The unimpaired view of the Mediterranean from the ambassador’s expansive office in the US Embassy in Tel Aviv is stunning. And it is a view that James Cunningham, the outgoing US envoy, will give up for the view from Kabul. Cunningham, a career diplomat who took up his post in Israel under the Bush administration three years ago, will be leaving within days to take up his post as the deputy ambassador in Afghanistan. Talk about moving from a storm to a tempest.

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Netanyahu gallops on while peacemaking stumbles
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Jeffrey Heller - July 5, 2011 - 12:00am

The last time an Israeli prime minister led a government that served out a full four-year term, Ronald Reagan was just settling into the White House. Political in-fighting and, in one case, an assassination, have cut short the governance of Israeli leaders who formed fragile coalitions after elections in which no party in Israel has ever won an outright parliamentary majority.

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US envoy in Israel to Rivlin: Obama will visit Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
July 5, 2011 - 12:00am

US President Barack Obama will visit Israel, US ambassador to Israel James B. Cunningham told Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday. "The president wants to visit and he will do so," Cunningham told Rivlin. Though he did not specify a date for the visit, Cunningham said it was on Obama's agenda. Rivlin told Cunningham that "Israelis sense that the atmosphere in the White House has changed for the worse. The feeling is that Obama views Israel as a burden more than as a strategic asset."

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If... then...
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) July 5, 2011 - 12:00am

The Palestinian media are reporting that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has responded to President Barack Obama’s request for an answer on whether or not Israel agrees to the president’s parameters for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. According to the reports, Netanyahu demanded a letter of commitment from the US, patterned on the letter from former president George W.

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