Date

Netanyahu: Listen to Obama's warnings
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
(Editorial) January 16, 2013 - 1:00am


  Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu began serving as their countries’ leaders at about the same time, in early 2009. Netanyahu’s term could have continued until the fall of 2013, but he chose to shorten it in an effort to obtain a new mandate in an early election, which will be held just a day after the president is to take the oath of office in Washington.


It's not Obama who's meddling in Israel's elections: it’s reality
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chemi Shalev - (Opinion) January 15, 2013 - 1:00am


  Likud stalwarts and their colleagues in the Israeli media are up in arms on Tuesday in the wake of Jeffrey Goldberg’s report on U.S. President Barack Obama’s critical remarks about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. “He’s intervening in our elections,” Bibi champions protest, a complaint which, no pun intended, is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.


What does New Yorker interview teach us about Naftali Bennett?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Anshel Pfeffer - (Opinion) January 16, 2013 - 1:00am


 


Air France sued for refusing to fly pro-Palestinian protester
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
January 15, 2013 - 1:00am


  A French pro-Palestinian activist sued Air France for discrimination for not allowing her to fly to Israel in order to visit the Palestinian Authority.


Israeli forces shot youth in the back as he ran away, say Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Harriet Sherwood - January 15, 2013 - 1:00am


  A teenage boy was killed by Israeli soldiers on the separation barrier close to the West Bank village of Budrus yesterday, shot from behind as he was running away, according to Palestinian accounts.


Library on the Move
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Diana Atallah - January 14, 2013 - 1:00am


  Palestinian passengers will be more tempted to read books after a new reading campaign is launched next week. A group of young writers are gathering books to put in mini-vans linking major cities in the West Bank, routes that can waste hours.


IDF probe: 80 bullets fired without justification in death of West Bank Palestinian
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chaim Levinson - January 16, 2013 - 1:00am


  An IDF probe has concluded that in November, Israeli soldiers fired 80 bullets without justification causing the death of a Palestinian man shot in the back during clashes in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.


Obama's alleged Netanyahu criticism enlivens election
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Dan Williams - January 16, 2013 - 1:00am


 


Hamas, Fatah officials to meet in Cairo
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
January 16, 2013 - 1:00am


Hamas and Fatah officials will meet in Cairo on Thursday to discuss national reconciliation, a Fatah official said Wednesday.


Palestinian activists try to return to E1 outpost after Israeli evacuation
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
January 16, 2013 - 1:00am


  Dozens of Palestinian activists on Tuesday tried to return to the Bab El-Shams outpost they erected in the controversial E1 area after an Israeli forced evacuation, police sources confirmed to Xinhua.



American Task Force on Palestine - 1634 Eye St. NW, Suite 725, Washington DC 20006 - Telephone: 202-262-0017