Palestinian Festival Of Dance – And Debate
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Joshua Mitnick - May 5, 2008 - 5:14pm


Though they were delayed eight hours at the Israeli border, dancers from Belgium's Les Ballets C. De La. B. company eventually made their way to Ramallah's Al Kasba Theatre where they writhed, staggered, and lunged across the stage.


War Of The Rockets
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Jackson Diehl - (Opinion) May 5, 2008 - 5:07pm


Last Tuesday, Israel faced the fallout from a Palestinian family of five perishing in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli strike against militants firing rockets at an Israeli town. On Wednesday, the Bush administration woke to a front-page picture in The Post of a 2-year-old Iraqi boy killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad aimed at Shiite militiamen launching rockets at the city's Green Zone. The similarity of these tragic and politically costly episodes was anything but a coincidence.



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