Create a real American coalition on Middle East peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) June 23, 2009 - 12:00am


For years now, my colleagues and I at the American Task Force on Palestine have argued that advocates of a two-state resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict need to form a real, functioning national coalition in the United States to support this goal. President Barack Obama has put a great deal of his political credibility and capital on the line in pursuit of negotiated resolution, forcefully articulating what all parties must do to build momentum toward this goal.


Olmert offered to withdraw from 93% of West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Aluf Benn, Barak Ravid - June 23, 2009 - 12:00am


Former prime minister Ehud Olmert offered Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that the Holy Basin area of Jerusalem would be under no sovereignty at all and administered by a joint committee of Saudis, Jordanians, Israelis, Palestinians and Americans, the former prime minister told Newsweek magazine in an interview in the current issue.


Unnatural Growth
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewcy
by Moshe Yaroni - (Opinion) June 23, 2009 - 12:00am


"Israel will not freeze settlement construction for natural growth, despite intense pressure from the Obama administration to do so," The Jerusalem Post, June 1, 2009. The argument that “natural growth” is crucial to Israel's well-being is utter nonsense. Here are a few facts.


US: Settlement freeze includes Jerusalem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 23, 2009 - 12:00am


The US demand that Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank must cease includes East Jerusalem, a State Department spokesperson said on Monday. In response to a question from Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper, State Department spokesperson Ian Kelly said, “We’re talking about all settlement activity, yeah, in the area across the line,” he said, referring to the 1948 armistice line, or Green Line.



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