May 29th

Use your imagination ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) May 28, 2012 - 12:00am Okay, for the sake of argument, let’s say all those (on the right and the left) who say it is too late for the two-state solution are correct. Let’s agree that the Oslo idea was nice in theory but in reality is/was not implementable. History, so far, is on their side; after all of the years of negotiations and attempts, there is no Palestinian state next to Israel. » Read more

2 Israeli police convicted in Palestinian death ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Diaa Hadid - May 28, 2012 - 12:00am JERUSALEM — A Jerusalem court on Monday convicted two Israeli police of negligent homicide for abandoning an injured Palestinian man on a roadside, where he was found dead two days later. The case has raised questions about failures that led to the death of Omar Abu Jarban, a car thief from the Gaza Strip who illegally lived in Israel. The man was passed from medical officials to prison and police authorities before he died. » Read more

Israeli court sentences Palestinian protest leader ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press by Rawhi Razim - May 29, 2012 - 12:00am OFER MILITARY BASE, West Bank — An Israeli military court Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian protest leader to 13 months in jail, time he already served for urging youths to throw rocks at Israeli soldiers. Bassem al-Tamimi, 45, walked free because he already spent that much time in jail while awaiting trial. The activist led weekly marches in his West Bank village of Nabi Saleh for years to protest Jewish settlers seizing a nearby well for their own use, mirroring other protests in Palestinian villages. » Read more

When the next intifada breaks out, Netanyahu will have only himself to blame ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Akiva Eldar - (Opinion) May 29, 2012 - 12:00am Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sword-polishing hasn't frightened the Iranians, according to recent reports about last week's nuclear talks in Baghdad. Foot-dragging by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei opposite the six world powers has been accompanied by an attempt to strengthen the Iranian foothold in Lebanon. » Read more

The frayed truth of Operation Magic Carpet ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Vered Lee - (Book Review) May 28, 2012 - 12:00am In Israel's collective memory, the aliyah from Yemen is remembered as a rescue: Jews were whisked from oppression and replanted safely in the Land of Israel. » Read more

Turkish Court Indicts 4 Israeli Military Leaders ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner - May 28, 2012 - 12:00am JERUSALEM — An Istanbul court approved indictments on Monday against four senior Israeli military figures for involvement in a deadly raid on a Turkish passenger vessel trying to breach Israel’s naval blockade of » Read more

Hamas Takes Step Toward Palestinian Unity Government ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Fares Akram - May 28, 2012 - 12:00am Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, made the first step on Monday toward ending his group’s disputes with the » Read more

People Power for Peace ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Huffington Post by Hussein Ibish, Saliba Sarsar - (Blog) May 25, 2012 - 12:00am June 5, 2012 marks the 45th anniversary of the start of the Six-Day War. One of us experienced the war in Jerusalem at the age of 11, and the other in Beirut at age 4, yet it haunts us to this day. The war led to the ongoing Israeli military occupation that has come to define the conflict. It has lessened neither the fears of the triumphant Israelis, nor those of the defeated Arabs; the mindset of confrontation that produced the war still haunts the region. » Read more

May 25th

State Dep’t Opposes Senate Bid to Determine How Many Palestinians Are Genuine Refugees ATFP World Press Roundup Article from CNS News by Patrick Goodenough - May 25, 2012 - 12:00am (CNSNews.com) – After intervention by the State Department, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday reworked an amendment to a foreign operations appropriations bill, watering down language that sought to establish the actual number of Palestinians that could legitimately be called refugees. » Read more

How Obama Missed an Opportunity for Middle East Peace ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by PJ Dermer, Steve White - (Opinion) May 18, 2012 - 12:00am "We were fond together, because of the sweep of the open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The moral freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up in ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for. We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: Yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew." – T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom » Read more