The most fateful decision of all ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Times of Israel by David Horovitz - (Analysis) August 28, 2012 - 12:00am Hear that frantic whispering noise beneath the hum of the air-conditioners in this sweltering Israeli summer? That’s the sound of many Israeli insiders repeating over and over and over: Don’t do it. Don’t do it. Don’t do it. » Read more

Auschwitz and Palestinians: what the media missed ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star by Natalia Simanovsky - (Opinion) August 29, 2012 - 12:00am In late July, Ziad al-Bandak, an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made an official visit to the Auschwitz Holocaust memorial to pay respect to the million-and-a-half victims of the camp, most of whom were Jewish. » Read more

Corrie verdict exposes Israel's false narrative ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National (Editorial) August 29, 2012 - 12:00am After nine years of injustice, the Israeli court's decision did not come as much of a surprise. For the parents of the 23-year-old American activist crushed by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to stop it from demolishing a Palestinian home, there will be no justice from an Israeli court. But today, perhaps more than at any time since her death, Rachel Corrie continues to fight the injustice that Palestinians face under occupation. » Read more

Bulldozing the Special Relationship ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Foreign Policy by Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) August 28, 2012 - 12:00am Only the most naive observers would be surprised by the verdict from an Israeli court on the civil case brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie, the American activist killed in 2003 at the hands of the Israeli military. The court ruled this week that Israel was not responsible for the death of the 23-year-old student, referring to it as a "regrettable accident" that Corrie herself could have prevented by staying out of the area. » Read more

The Corrie verdict ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post (Editorial) August 28, 2012 - 12:00am The death of 23-year-old American rights activist Rachel Corrie was a “regrettable accident,” not an intentional war crime, Haifa District Court Judge Oded Gershon ruled on Tuesday. For those following the trial who are unbiased by a perennial desire to bash Israel and search tirelessly for its faults, the verdict was no surprise. » Read more

Why did Hamas cancel participation in Iran's Non-Aligned Movement summit? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Avi Issacharoff - (Opinion) August 29, 2012 - 12:00am A fierce storm briefly raged in the Palestinian political arena over the weekend. A few hours after the Hamas government spokesman announced in Gaza on Saturday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had invited Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to attend the Non-Aligned Movement conference and that Haniyeh intended to go, officials close to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that if Haniyeh goes to Tehran, Abbas would not. » Read more

Scars of an Israeli survivor of the Hebron massacre ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Mordechai Twersky - (Opinion) August 29, 2012 - 12:00am Shlomo Slonim gazes at four large black and white photos of family members adorning the dining room wall of his apartment in Ra'anana, a city in central Israel. He battles with his health. He has recurrent flashbacks. But some memories cut even deeper than the one-inch indentation above his freckled forehead and the scars on his right hand from where his fingers were nearly severed. » Read more

The U.K. extreme right is undecided on who to hate: Jews or Muslims? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Anshel Pfeffer - (Opinion) August 29, 2012 - 12:00am The battle for leadership of Britain's far-right took a bizarre twist this month when the British National Party, long the most prominent racist group in British politics, issued a detailed report accusing their main rivals, the English Defense League, of being the “useful idiots” of “neo-cons” and “ultra-Zionists.” » Read more

Palestinian Authority prime minister attending TIFF ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Brent Lang - August 28, 2012 - 12:00am Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad will make the argument for statehood at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Fayyad will appear at a press conference on September 11 in conjunction with the Toronto premiere of "State 194," producer Participant Media said Tuesday. » Read more

Report: 40% of east J'lem seniors drop out of school ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Noam Dvir - August 28, 2012 - 12:00am No student registration, high dropout rates, overcrowded classes and slow construction of new classrooms – these are only some of the failures characterizing the east Jerusalem education system, a report published Tuesday by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Ir Amim organization suggests. » Read more