'Both Israel, Hamas responsible for escalation' ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times by Daoud Kuttab - March 24, 2011 - 12:00am Who is responsible for the sudden escalation of the situation in the Gaza Strip? All of a sudden rockets are coming out from Gaza after a period of calm and Israel tanks are shelling residential areas, which killed four members of the Helu family in the Shejaiya refugee camp in the Strip. » Read more

We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Conflict ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) March 23, 2011 - 12:00am The spread of conflict and violence across the Middle East is dampening widespread hopes of an "Arab Spring" that followed the peaceful ousters of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia. Anti-government demonstrations in Bahrain have taken on an increasingly bitter sectarian character, especially with the military intervention of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and the uprising in Libya has degenerated into an all-out civil war compounded by an international no-fly zone intervention. » Read more