Lally Weymouth interviews Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Wall Street Journal by Lally Weymouth - (Interview) June 22, 2012 - 12:00am “If only we could clone him,” a senior U.S. official said to me recently, speaking about Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Held in great respect by foreigners, Fayyad may soon find himself out of a job if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (also called Abu Mazen) forges a national unity government with Hamas. This past week, Fayyad sat down in the West Bank city of Ramallah with The Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth. Excerpts: » Read more

Gazans celebrate Brotherhood victory in Egypt ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Ibrahim Barzak - June 25, 2012 - 12:00am The Gaza Strip erupted in celebratory gunfire on Sunday with news that the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate won the presidency in neighboring Egypt, but one person was killed. Tens of thousands of joyous Palestinians took to the streets across the territory after Egypt announced that Mohammed Morsi won last weekend's runoff election, the first time an Islamist has won that nation's highest office. » Read more