Netanyahu's peace stance is running Israel into a wall
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Ari Shavit - (Opinion) May 26, 2011 - 12:00am

When Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister, he had to formulate a peace strategy. He had to decide whether he aspired to reach an interim agreement or a final-status one with the Palestinians. He opted to go for a final-status agreement.

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Netanyahu relegated himself to the footnotes of history
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) May 26, 2011 - 12:00am

The "speech of his life" must now quickly become the speech of Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu's political demise. The hour is pressing, there is no time and nothing is going to come of Netanyahu any more.

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Saying ‘no’ to the world
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Orly Azoulay - (Opinion) May 26, 2011 - 12:00am

He did not say it provocatively or crudely. It was a superb speech, with all the shticks that the Americans like: He joked in American, he mentioned his killed brother, and he recounted how he himself almost died near the Suez Canal during the war. Yet he said “no!” At the end of the day, Netanyahu left the world with nothing they could hold on to and with a big “no” to Obama, to Europe and to everyone. He gave them nothing to cling to or to work with.

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Saying ‘no’ to the world
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Orly Azoulay - (Opinion) May 26, 2011 - 12:00am

He did not say it provocatively or crudely. It was a superb speech, with all the shticks that the Americans like: He joked in American, he mentioned his killed brother, and he recounted how he himself almost died near the Suez Canal during the war. Yet he said “no!” At the end of the day, Netanyahu left the world with nothing they could hold on to and with a big “no” to Obama, to Europe and to everyone. He gave them nothing to cling to or to work with.

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Saying ‘no’ to the world
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Orly Azoulay - (Opinion) May 26, 2011 - 12:00am

He did not say it provocatively or crudely. It was a superb speech, with all the shticks that the Americans like: He joked in American, he mentioned his killed brother, and he recounted how he himself almost died near the Suez Canal during the war. Yet he said “no!” At the end of the day, Netanyahu left the world with nothing they could hold on to and with a big “no” to Obama, to Europe and to everyone. He gave them nothing to cling to or to work with.

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Israel’s Emergency Regulations Get Lease on Life
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Arieh O'Sullivan - May 25, 2011 - 12:00am

At a time when the Arab regimes are suspending state-of-emergency laws in the face of popular protests, Israeli lawmakers have quietly voted to extend them another year into their seventh decade. A joint meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense committee and the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee this week accepted a government request to extend the state of emergency for 12 months. This wasn’t because there was a looming threat on the Jewish state, but because after more than 60 years parliament hasn’t found the time to regularize the rule in ordinary legislation

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Israeli settlers, rightists, slam Netanyahu over U.S. Congressional speech
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
May 25, 2011 - 12:00am

Israeli settlers living in the West Bank expressed their disappointment on Wednesday regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's U.S. Congressional address, where he suggested Israel would be willing to swap land with Palestinians in exchange for peace. "His discourse was ambivalent," Danny Dayan, Head of the Council of Jewish Communities in the West Bank told Xinhua.

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Israeli lawmakers react differently to Netanyahu's Congress speech
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
May 24, 2011 - 12:00am

Some members of Israeli Knesset parliament on Tuesday evening praised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, while others condemned it as "nothing new." Gidon Sa'ar, a lawmaker from Netanyahu's Likud faction, hailed the address. "There's no statesmen in Israel or the world who could present the case for Israel as strongly as Netanyahu could," he was quoted by The Jerusalem Post as saying.

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Time for Netanyahu to ditch his do-nothing policy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Richard Cohen - (Opinion) May 23, 2011 - 12:00am

Every man has a father, and Binyamin Netanyahu’s is worth knowing. He is Benzion Netanyahu, born 101 years ago in what was soon to become Poland and living now in what has become Israel. He is a historian by profession, the author of a mammoth and well-respected book on the Spanish Inquisition and, most pertinent to today’s events, the former secretary to Ze’ev Jabotinsky, a militant Zionist leader whose credo, when it came to the Arabs, could be summarized as: Do nothing. Binyamin Netanyahu is doing precisely that.

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Livni: 2-state solution good for Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Attila Somfalvi - May 23, 2011 - 12:00am

Give peace a chance: The two-state solution is good for Israel and is the only way to maintain a state that is both Jewish and democratic, Opposition Chairwoman Tzipi Livni told the AIPAC conference in Washington Monday. The notion of two states, Israel and Palestine, is not just a slogan or a move that would be beneficial for other parties, such as the US president, Livni said. "It is not an anti-Israeli policy – it is vital for Israel’s interests," she said.

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