August 5th, 2008

Gazans\' Access To Care Faulted ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Linda Gradstein - August 5, 2008 - 2:55pm JERUSALEM, Aug. 4 -- Israel\'s domestic security service requires Gazans who wish to enter Israel for medical treatment to submit to detailed interviews about their knowledge of political and militant groups, according to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, a nonprofit group based in Tel Aviv. » Read more

In Gaza, A Blurry Line Between Enemies And Friends ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Ethan Bronner - August 5, 2008 - 2:51pm JERUSALEM — The events of the past few days in and around Gaza — mortar and grenade battles, negotiations drawing in Israel and Egypt, and the bizarre denouement in which Israel both saved and interrogated scores of Palestinian fighters — offer a glimpse of the byzantine nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. » Read more

U.s. Government, Private Groups Funnel Donations To Palestinians ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Department Of State by Philip Kurata - August 5, 2008 - 2:50pm Washington -- The U.S. government and a humanitarian organization devoted to helping the Palestinian people have established a mechanism to channel private American donations into programs that benefit the Palestinians. A memorandum of understanding was signed August 1 in Washington by the administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Henrietta Fore, and Ziad Asali, the founder and chairman of the American Charities for Palestine. » Read more

August 4th

U.s. Urges Donors To Pay P.a. Pledges ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) August 4, 2008 - 5:19pm The Bush administration urged donor nations to make good on pledged contributions to the Palestinian Authority. "It has been clear for some time that the Palestinian Authority faced a serious and imminent budget crisis," said a U.S. State Department statement released July 29. "This is why we have been working urgently with the Palestinian Authority and our partners in the international community, in particular with regional partners committed to peace, to do everything possible to support the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people." » Read more

August 1st

Great Day For The Irish! ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Israel Policy Forum by M.J. Rosenberg - August 1, 2008 - 3:25pm There is a story that is told in journalism school. Back in the 1890s, the publisher William Randolph Hearst moved to New York from San Francisco and purchased the New York Journal. He did not know much about New York, but he did know that a large percentage of the city’s population was Irish and that he needed them as readers. » Read more

July 31st

Hamas Threatens Pa Officials In W. Bank ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Khaled Abu Toameh - July 31, 2008 - 4:01pm Palestinian Authority security forces were put on high alert Wednesday following threats by Hamas against its senior officials, PA security sources told The Jerusalem Post. The PA leadership was taking Hamas's threats seriously and had ordered its security forces to be prepared to foil any attempt to harm PA figures, the sources said. Additional bodyguards have been assigned to a number of top PA officials in the West Bank, and security had been beefed up around the homes of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other senior officials in Ramallah, the sources said. » Read more

Palestinian Protests Against Barrier Turn Savvy ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press by Diaa Hadid - July 31, 2008 - 4:00pm A Palestinian teen tracks Israeli troops with a video camera to document abuse of demonstrators. A community organizer tours West Bank villages with a PowerPoint presentation teaching the art of creative protest. These are just two examples of the increasingly savvy methods Palestinians are using to fight Israel's West Bank separation barrier - a campaign whose danger was driven home this week by the death of a 10-year-old Palestinian boy. » Read more

Israelis Barricade West Bank Village ATFP World Press Roundup Article from United Press International (UPI) July 31, 2008 - 3:59pm Israeli authorities used sandbags and cement barricades Thursday to block entrances to West Bank village of Nalain. The action was taken after fighting broke out between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians who protested the construction of a barrier, reported KUNA, the Kuwaiti news agency. Residents said about 20 Israeli military vehicles entered Nalain, followed by bulldozers that blocked entrances to the city. The community has seen a rise in confrontations as residents have been protesting the building of a security barricade, KUNA said. » Read more

Us Set For Three-way Talks In Quest For Middle East Peace Deal ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Agence France Presse (AFP) by P. Parameswaran - July 31, 2008 - 3:56pm The United States was set Wednesday for three-way peace talks with top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators amid pessimism President George W. Bush can bag a comprehensive Middle East peace deal before he leaves office in January. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni separately Wednesday before holding trilateral talks later in the day with chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qorei and Livni at the State Department. » Read more

Thousands At Funeral Of Boy Shot In West Bank Protest ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Agence France Presse (AFP) by Hossam Ezzedine - July 31, 2008 - 3:55pm Thousands marched through the occupied West Bank in a funeral Wednesday for a Palestinian boy who was shot dead by Israeli forces during a protest against Israel's separation barrier. "Oh martyr, rest in peace, we shall continue the struggle," the crowd of some 3,000 people chanted during the march from the city of Ramallah to the nearby village of Nilin where 12-year-old Ahmed Mussa was killed on Tuesday. » Read more