The Arab elephant in the Knesset ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Zvi Barel - (Opinion) January 8, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

Right-wing millionaire is Israel campaign's surprise star ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Maayan Lubell - (Opinion) January 9, 2013 - 1:00am   A right-wing millionaire who says a Palestinian state would be suicide for Israel has emerged as the surprise success story of the country's election campaign. » Read more

Rap Musicians Censored in Gaza ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor January 8, 2013 - 1:00am   Mohammad Antar is a 26-year-old rapper. For over a year, Mohammed has been practicing the songs he has written in front of the mirror. He will be lucky if he even gets a chance to perform them during an "underground" concert, with only his friends as the audience. » Read more

Israel to market disputed East Jerusalem housing project before election ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Yair Ettinger - January 10, 2013 - 1:00am   The Israeli government and the Jerusalem municipality are hard at work on the goal of offering for sale 1,500 housing units in the capital's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, the focus of international censure, before the January 22 elections. Plans for the project, which is over the Green Line, were approved last month by the National Planning and Building Council, causing tension between Jerusalem and the West. » Read more

Rights groups concerned by Gaza death in custody ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency January 9, 2013 - 1:00am The death of a Palestinian man while in the custody of the Gaza government in recent weeks must be thoroughly and transparently investigated, human rights groups say. Atef Khamis Derbas, 52, was being held in the central Ansar prison in Gaza City for unpaid debts, before he died on Dec. 27. His family told the Al-Haq human rights group they had informed prison authorities of his pre-existing medical problems, and that he was suffering in jail due to cold conditions and not taking his medication regularly. » Read more

Israeli forces demolish house in East Jerusalem ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency January 8, 2013 - 1:00am Israeli forces demolished a house in East Jerusalem on Tuesday on the pretext that it was being built without a permit, a local official said. Fakhri Abu Diab, head of the Committee for the Defense of Silwan, told official news agency Wafa that Israeli bulldozers arrived early Tuesday and destroyed the home, which was under construction at the time.  The house, located in the Silwan neighborhood south of Jerusalem's Old City, was uninhabited at the time. » Read more

Peace Now: Israeli govt secretly approved settler outpost ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency January 8, 2013 - 1:00am After the Israeli government gave official sanction to three settler outposts last year, a fourth illegal community has been included in the boundaries, an Israeli peace group said Tuesday. All Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law. However, Israel distinguishes between settlements it has approved and the outposts which were never granted official authorization. In April 2012 the Israeli government retroactively authorized three outposts -- Rehelim, Sansana and Bruchin. » Read more

Settlers clash with Nablus villages, 2 wounded by gunfire ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency January 10, 2013 - 1:00am Two Palestinians suffered gunshot wounds in clashes with Israeli settlers and soldiers in separate incidents in the northern West Bank on Thursday, an official said. Dozens of residents of Yitzhar settlement clashed with Palestinians who were playing in the snow in the nearby Urif village, south of Nablus, settler-monitoring official Ghassan Daghlas said. Israeli forces arrived at the scene and tried to persuade the Palestinian to leave, but they refused, he said. » Read more

Hamas flagship university grooms Hebrew teachers ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Diaa Hadid - January 9, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

Four Palestinians killed in West Bank flooding ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Yaniv Kubovich - January 10, 2013 - 1:00am   Four Palestinians have died in the West Bank as a result of this week's storm. On Wednesday morning Palestinian rescue personnel found two bodies of young Palestinian women who had been missing since Tuesday night, after the car they were riding in was swept away by floods between Nablus and Tul Karm. The car and its driver were found several kilometers away with the driver suffering from hypothermia. » Read more