September 26th

Israeli left-wing party introduces new peace plan to replace Oslo Accords ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua September 25, 2012 - 12:00am JERUSALEM, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The head of Israel's left-wing Meretz party, Knesset (parliament) member Zehava Gal-On introduced her party's draft for a new peace plan with the Palestinians on Tuesday. » Read more

Jordan condemns radical Israelis for breaking into Aqsa Mosque's yards ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua September 26, 2012 - 12:00am AMMAN, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Jordan on Tuesday condemned radical Israeli settlers and rabbis as they broke into the yards of Al Aqsa Mosque, the state-run Petra news agency reported. » Read more

Boy's death ignites rare anti-Hamas protests in Gaza ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Nidal al-Mughrabi - September 26, 2012 - 12:00am GAZA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - At least 500 protesters in the Gaza Strip have called for the overthrow of the ruling Islamist Hamas group in a rare demonstration triggered by the death of a three-year-old boy in a fire during a power outage. » Read more

Abbas adopts 'Dershowitz Formula' for resuming talks with Israel ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Chemi Shalev - September 25, 2012 - 12:00am Harvard jurist and well-known Israel advocate Professor Alan Dershowitz has secured Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ agreement to a settlement freeze formula that he hopes will break the diplomatic stalemate and lead to a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. » Read more

Palestinian Leader Abbas Back at UN With Lowered Aims ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bloomberg by Flavia Krause-Jackson - September 26, 2012 - 12:00am This time last year Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a hero to his people as he waved an application for statehood recognition from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly. » Read more

Palestinians likely to ask UN GA for statehood ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press September 25, 2012 - 12:00am NEW YORK — A Palestinian legislator says President Mahmoud Abbas will likely ask the United Nation's General Assembly to vote on recognizing Palestine in November. » Read more

September 25th

Abbas Has One Last Chance At The UN General Assembly ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Ayyam by Rajab Abu Sariya - (Opinion) September 24, 2012 - 12:00am Up until now, the Muslim Brotherhood presidency in Egypt has been pursuing the worst possible policy when it comes to the Palestinians. Cairo has made no effort in the peace process, nor have they assigned their intelligence agency — or any other agency — to work on this issue. » Read more

Real Friends Are Honest — Even With Israel ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward by Ken Schechtman - (Opinion) September 25, 2012 - 12:00am During his July experiment with international diplomacy, Mitt Romney’s encomium about the Israeli health care system provided a delicious illustration of one of our few remaining bipartisan sports: pandering to all things Israel. “Do you realize what health care spending is as a percentage of GDP in Israel? Eight percent,” Romney intoned. “You spend 8% of GDP on health care. And you’re a pretty healthy nation. We spend 18% of our GDP on health care. Ten percentage points more.” » Read more

Who are You? ID Cards and East Jerusalem’s Identity Crisis ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line by Linda Gradstein - (Opinion) September 25, 2012 - 12:00am In the United States, you need a passport to travel abroad, and a drivers’ license to cash a check. In Israel, you need an ID card just to cross the street. » Read more

There is a way out ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) September 24, 2012 - 12:00am I am sitting in a workshop at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non- Proliferation. The meeting is taking place a few days after the after the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In the room are some of the people who negotiated arms control and disarmament treaties between the United States and the Soviet Union. There are several Arab ambassadors who represent their governments to the IAEA and were present at the annual meeting in which Shaul Horev, the Israeli head of the Israeli Atomic Energy Authority, spoke. » Read more