Poll: Israelis back Netanyahu's tough stance in US
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
May 26, 2011 - 12:00am

An Israeli poll indicates that support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has surged following his contentious visit to the United States. Netanyahu had a a tense meeting in Washington with President Barack Obama over the nature of a future Palestinian state. In an address before Congress, he insisted Israel would not return to its pre-1967 war borders. The survey has 51 percent of those polled supporting Netanyahu — a 13 percent increase from the Dialog Institute's previous poll published five weeks ago. The latest poll results were published Thursday in the Haaretz daily.

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Congress Makes the Case for Palestinians’ UN Approach
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Middle East Progress
by Matthew Duss - (Opinion) May 26, 2011 - 12:00am

Just in case you were unclear on why the Palestinians have chosen to effectively withdraw from the U.S.-led peace process and try their luck at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech Tuesday, and the rapturous reception given it by a joint meeting of Congress, should have fixed that.

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Netanyahu's congressional speech appeases Washington, disappoints Ramallah
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
by Adam Gonn - May 26, 2011 - 12:00am

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday spoke before the United States Congress, it was his third major policy speech in less than two weeks. Netanyahu was to have presented a plan to reinvigorate the direct peace negotiations with the Palestinians. The result, however, according to some analysts, was something very different.

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What do the Mideast speeches tell us?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
by Rami Khouri - (Opinion) May 25, 2011 - 12:00am

So what can we conclude after the past week’s jamboree of speeches on the Middle East by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama?

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Parties See Obama’s Israel Policy as Wedge for 2012
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Jackie Calmes, Helene Cooper - May 25, 2011 - 12:00am

Few issues in American politics are as bipartisan as support for Israel. Yet the question of whether President Obama is supportive enough is behind some of the most partisan maneuvering since the Middle East ally was born six decades ago, and that angling has potential ramifications for the 2012 elections.

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Ratting the Cage: Obama's albatross
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Larry Derfner - (Opinion) May 25, 2011 - 12:00am

With that Salute to Judea and Samaria he just staged in Washington, our wise and fearless leader just screwed American policy in the Middle East, turned Israel into an albatross around the neck of the president of the United States, made Western Europe ashamed to be associated with us, waved a red flag at the Palestinians and the entire Muslim world, and I don’t know what else. Way to go, Bibi.

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Parties See Obama’s Israel Policy as Wedge for 2012
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Jackie Calmes, Helene Cooper - May 25, 2011 - 12:00am

Few issues in American politics are as bipartisan as support for Israel. Yet the question of whether President Obama is supportive enough is behind some of the most partisan maneuvering since the Middle East ally was born six decades ago, and that angling has potential ramifications for the 2012 elections.

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Don’t Make Us Choose
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
(Editorial) May 25, 2011 - 12:00am

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint meeting of Congress May 24, his first audience was the assembly of federal lawmakers and other government dignitaries seated before him. His second audience was President Obama, who was off hobnobbing with the Queen of England, but who only days earlier had set out his vision for achieving a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And his third audience was the American Jewish community.

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Parties See Obama’s Israel Policy as Wedge for 2012
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Jackie Calmes, Helene Cooper - May 25, 2011 - 12:00am

Few issues in American politics are as bipartisan as support for Israel. Yet the question of whether President Obama is supportive enough is behind some of the most partisan maneuvering since the Middle East ally was born six decades ago, and that angling has potential ramifications for the 2012 elections.

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Washington Watch: Paging Dale Carnegie
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by D. Bloomfield - (Opinion) May 25, 2011 - 12:00am

US-Israel strategic relations may be stronger than ever, but politically the alliance took an unnecessary body blow over the past week as the prime minister of Israel sat in the Oval Office on live TV lecturing the US president in a tone Atlantic blogger Jeffrey Goldberg said “suggested he was speaking to an ignoramus.”

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