Israel Police Detains 16 Soccer Fans Over Attack of Arab Workers in Jerusalem Mall
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Oz Rosenberg - March 29, 2012 - 12:00am

The Jerusalem Police detained 16 fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer franchise for questioning on Thursday on suspicion of taking part in an attack on Arab employees in Jerusalem’s Malha mall last week. Ten of the fans were released under restrictive conditions, while the remaining six, one of whom is a minor, are being brought in front of a judge for a remand hearing later on Thursday. Beitar fans captured on security camera at the Malha shopping mall. Beitar fans captured on security camera at the Malha shopping mall.

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Palestinian Prisoner Ends Hunger Strike After Expulsion Deal
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
March 29, 2012 - 12:00am

RAMALLAH, March 29 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian prisoner suspended her hunger strike after 43 days upon a deal to be expelled for three years to Gaza, Palestinian sources said Thursday evening. Hana Shalabi, a woman from the West Bank, agreed personally to the Israeli offer of temporary expulsion, the sources added. Palestinian officials and representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) helped forge the deal, according to the sources.

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Arab soccer strike, now
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Arie Maliniak - (Opinion) March 28, 2012 - 12:00am

The recent bout of rioting by Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans at a local mall started as a violent victory celebration, yet within a short while turned into a flurry of “death to Arab” chants and assaults. The Israel Police did not deal with the riot because “no official complaint was filed.” Meanwhile, the Israeli soccer association did not deal with the “death to Arabs” singing by fans of another team, SC Ashdod, during a game, because the referees did not see or hear anything. We’ve had enough of this.

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Bret Stephens' Crisis of Empathy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) March 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Sometimes crude binaries can be instructive, and it's possible to distinguish two different types of people: those who seek out generous and universalist empathy with others, and those who prefer the warm cocoon of tribal solidarity.

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Beware Land Day
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
(Editorial) March 27, 2012 - 12:00am

An international array of terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas, rogue states such as Iran and radical left-wing organizations such as Code Pink have joined forces to make the 36th Land Day potentially the biggest – and most violent – ever.

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Joining Start-Up Nation
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by David Rosenberg - March 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Living and working on the edges of Israel’s Start-Up Nation, Palestinian and Israeli Arab high tech entrepreneurs are trying their hand getting companies aloft by leveraging their closeness to Israel’s technology juggernaut and the low cost of Palestinian engineers. “There’s a great opportunity in Palestine to create a start-up with a great cost structure,” Tareq Maayah, chief executive officer of Shopzooky, a maker of social shopping apps, which was set up in Ramallah last year. “You couldn’t beat it without going to India,” said his partner Sam Taha, chief technology officer.

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Arab Attacked by Israel Soccer Fans: There Were Hundreds, We Had No Chance
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Oz Rosenberg - March 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Over a week after the violent incident in which fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team ran amok in the Malha mall, accused of physically assaulting Arab workers in the mall, one of the workers provides a firsthand account of what occurred that night. “I’ve been working here for a year and a half, and my brother for two years,” said N., 20 years old, an East Jerusalem resident. “We’re used to the Beitar fans coming to the mall after the games, singing and getting wild, but we’ve never seen anything like what happened last week. That was the worst.”

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Bret Stephens' Crisis of Empathy
In Print by Hussein Ibish - The Daily Beast - March 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Sometimes crude binaries can be instructive, and it's possible to distinguish two different types of people: those who seek out generous and universalist empathy with others, and those who prefer the warm cocoon of tribal solidarity.

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Palestinian National Poet's Work To Be in Israeli-Arab Curriculum
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'ariv
by Raymond Marjiya, Omri Meniv - March 23, 2012 - 12:00am

For the first time, the poems of Mahmoud Darwish, widely considered the Palestinian national poet, will be taught in Arab schools in Israel. High-placed officials in charge of education in the sector have recently instructed the school principals to adopt a new literature curriculum including, in addition to Darwish's poetry, works from Knesset Member and ex-mayor of Nazareth Tawfiq Ziad and poet Samih Al-Qasem.

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Gourmet Palestinian Food Takes Tel Aviv
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Naami Shefi - March 23, 2012 - 12:00am

When the bohemian Tel Aviv restaurant Joz and Loz opened eight years ago, it began serving an appetizer called Palestinian kubenia. The menu described it as a traditional dish consisting of bulgur and sirloin tartare, mixed with fresh mint leaves, preserved lemon and chilies. The dish quietly lived on the menu, not making waves.

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