Palestinians Prepare to Exhume Arafat to Check for Poison
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - November 13, 2012 - 1:00am


JERUSALEM — The West Bank tomb of Yasir Arafat has been cordoned off and screened from public view ahead of an expected exhumation, a Palestinian Authority official said Tuesday, four months after a television investigation raised new suspicions that the Palestinian leader had been poisoned.


Four rockets fired from direction of Sinai strike southern Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gili Cohen, Yanir Yagna - November 14, 2012 - 1:00am


Four rockets were fired on Wednesday from the direction of the Sinai Peninsula toward an Israeli community on the border with Egypt. One of the rockets exploded in a moshav in the Eshkol Regional Council. The other three landed in the moshav's citron field.


Lieberman mulling offer to Palestinians: Drop UN bid and Israel will recognize state within provisional borders
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - November 14, 2012 - 1:00am


Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is considering a draft document that would offer the Palestinians immediate recognition of statehood within provisional borders as an incentive for dropping their UN bid. 


Fatah youth launches West Bank rallies, 6 injured
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
November 14, 2012 - 1:00am


BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Six people were wounded by Israeli forces on Wednesday as Fatah's youth organization organized rallies across the West Bank to kick off a week of activities to commemorate independence day, Ma'an's reporter said. Fatah youth organized demonstrations in Qalqiliya, Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron, blocking bypass roads linking Israeli settlement infrastructure in the West Bank.


PNA rejects Israeli threats to annul Oslo Accords
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
November 14, 2012 - 1:00am


RAMALLAH, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on Wednesday rejected Israeli threats to annul Oslo Accords, though the interim peace deal is hardly functional. "Oslo agreement is no longer existed on the ground, since it was supposed expiring in 1999," said Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator.


Israel ministry paper proposes 'toppling' Abbas over UN bid
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC News
November 14, 2012 - 1:00am


A position paper by Israel's foreign ministry proposes "toppling" President Mahmoud Abbas if Palestine's bid for UN non-member state status is approved. The internal document says it is "the only option" if deterrence efforts do not succeed, despite the consequences.


New Israeli airstrikes rock Gaza City
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Ibrahim Barzak - November 14, 2012 - 1:00am


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian witnesses say Israeli airstrikes have hit a series of targets across Gaza City, shortly after the assassination of the top Hamas commander.


Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari killed by Israeli strike
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
November 14, 2012 - 1:00am


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