Gaza businesses boxed in by Israeli export ban
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC World News
November 2, 2010 - 12:00am


Manal Hassan is a little short of breath as she walks me though the gloomy deserted production lines at the Al Awda biscuit factory in central Gaza. She has a lot on her plate at the moment. She is eight and half months pregnant, and the business she manages looks on the verge of going under. "It's very sad," Ms Hassan says, looking close to tears. "You can't imagine how it is when the factory is working. It's completely alive and full of people. Now it is like death."


Price of Beauty: Boycotts and ‘Buycotts’
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Joy Resmovits - November 27, 2010 - 1:00am


The Middle East conflict has inflamed college campuses, bedeviled political campaigns and sparked street demonstrations. But cosmetics stores are the latest, and perhaps least likely, sites so far to bear witness to the sprawling nature of this ever deepening dispute.


Stability in West Bank Transforms a City of Chaos
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - November 1, 2010 - 12:00am


NABLUS, West Bank — A mass wedding that took place here one recent balmy evening was the latest step toward the rebranding of this Palestinian city from a focus of chaos and violence to a model of stability in the West Bank. A wedding of 47 couples last month in Nablus, a city once a focus of violence, was part of an effort to change the city’s image. The 47 couples on the stage had not come together as a group before, and they were complete strangers to most of the 10,000 or so Palestinian revelers crowded into the amphitheater in the municipal park.


Bleak future for the Mideast
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
by Hassan Barari - November 2, 2010 - 12:00am


Few could forget the fourth of November 1995 when Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin delivered his last speech. Some 400,000 - of the once vibrant peace camp - had gathered to express their support for his policies of peace with the Palestinians. Few moments after, a zealot student from Bar Ilan University shot him dead.


Likud Wing Plays Tea Party Over Israeli Talks
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - November 1, 2010 - 12:00am


TEL AVIV — There were plenty of tea bags around: Wissotzky, the Israeli brand. But the inaugural event of the Israeli version of the Tea Party, organized by the right flank of Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party in this Mediterranean city on Sunday night, felt less like the start of a popular rebellion and more like a tepid political stunt.


Likud Wing Plays Tea Party Over Israeli Talks
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - November 1, 2010 - 12:00am


TEL AVIV — There were plenty of tea bags around: Wissotzky, the Israeli brand. But the inaugural event of the Israeli version of the Tea Party, organized by the right flank of Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party in this Mediterranean city on Sunday night, felt less like the start of a popular rebellion and more like a tepid political stunt.



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