Palestine stands up
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times by Shlomo Avineri - (Opinion) July 7, 2010 - 12:00am Although the crisis over Israel’s naval interventions to defend its blockade of Gaza is gaining all the headlines around the world, something of far more historic importance is taking place in the Middle East. The Palestinian Authority is preparing to issue a unilateral declaration of independence, and it is taking concrete steps on the ground to make any such declaration viable. |
Lessons for an Israeli-Palestinian summit
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Aaron David Miller - (Opinion) July 7, 2010 - 12:00am We were lost. The road to the presidential retreat at Camp David was winding and narrow; it was dark, the way it doesn't get in the city. We had clearly missed a turn somewhere. I kidded Dennis Ross, the lead U.S. negotiator for the imminent Israeli-Palestinian Camp David summit, that if we couldn't even find the president's compound, how were we going to help Bill Clinton negotiate an agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat once we got there? My gallows humor turned out to be all too prescient. |
Mr. Netanyahu at the White House
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times (Editorial) July 7, 2010 - 12:00am President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel satisfied their short-term political goals with an Oval Office meeting on Tuesday. It is less clear that they achieved much of substance. |
Indictments in Gaza War Are Announced
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner - July 7, 2010 - 12:00am The Israeli military said Tuesday that it had indicted “a number of” officers and soldiers for their actions during Israel’s three-week offensive in Gaza in the winter of 2008-9, including a staff sergeant accused of deliberately shooting at least one Palestinian civilian who was walking with a group of people waving a white flag. |
U.S. and Israel Shift Attention to Peace Process
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Mark Landler, Sheryl Gay Stolberg - July 7, 2010 - 12:00am President Obama said Tuesday that he expected direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians to begin “well before” a moratorium on settlement construction expired at the end of September, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel pledged to take “concrete steps” in the coming weeks to get the talks moving. |
President Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu try to mend fences
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Politico by Carol E. Lee, Laura Rozen - July 7, 2010 - 12:00am President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to exude a new sense of warmth in their rocky relationship Tuesday as both expressed confidence that the Israeli leader will soon hold direct peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. “The bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable,” said Obama, seated in the Oval Office alongside Netanyahu following their meeting that lasted more than 90 minutes. “We’ve seen over the last year how our relationship has broadened,” Obama added. “In fact, our relationship is continuing to improve.” |
Israeli Right-Wing MKs: US president is still evil
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Gil Hoffman - July 7, 2010 - 12:00am US President Barack Obama’s attempts to portray himself as pro-Israel in his press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday failed to persuade right-wing MKs, who warned that Obama is “still evil.” The MKs questioned the president’s motives and suggested that he was putting on a show for American Jews ahead of the crucial November mid-term elections, in which the Democrats may lose control of Congress. “He doesn’t sound evil now because he needs Jewish votes and money,” said Deputy Negev and Galilee Development Minister Ayoub Kara. |
TEST: Death by Gadget
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from December 31, 1969 - 8:00pm An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity — smartphones, laptops and digital cameras — are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo. With throngs waiting in lines in the last few days to buy the latest iPhone, I’m thinking: What if we could harness that desperation for new technologies to the desperate need to curb the killing in central Africa? |