Abbas agrees to peace talks based on 1967 borders
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 6, 2011 - 12:00am


President Mahmoud Abbas has told France he is ready to attend a Paris peace conference if Israel accepts talks based on the 1967 borders, an aide told AFP Sunday. Nimr Hammad, a political adviser to Abbas, said the president had told French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe that he agreed officially to a French proposal to host a peace conference in Paris before July. Juppe raised the possibility of the conference during a visit to Israel and the West Bank this week.


A Former Spy Chief Questions the Judgment of Israeli Leaders
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Ethan Bronner - June 3, 2011 - 12:00am


The man who ran Israel’s Mossad spy agency until January contends that Israel’s top leaders lack judgment and that the anticipated pressures of international isolation as the Palestinians campaign for statehood could lead to rash decisions — like an airstrike on Iran. The former intelligence chief, Meir Dagan, who stepped down after eight years in the post, has made several unusual public appearances and statements in recent weeks. He made headlines a few weeks ago when he asserted at a Hebrew University conference that a military attack on Iran would be “a stupid idea.”


Israeli Soldiers Shoot at Protesters on Syrian Border
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - June 5, 2011 - 12:00am


Israeli forces fired at pro-Palestinian protesters on the Syrian frontier on Sunday as they tried to breach the border for the second time in three weeks, reflecting a new mode of popular struggle and deadly confrontation fueled by turmoil in the Arab world and the vacuum of stalled peace talks.



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