Yair Lapid's peace-process doublespeak
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Zvi Barel - (Opinion) February 6, 2013 - 1:00am

The peace policy advocated in the platform of Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party is full of twists, turns and qualifications.

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Israel's Netanyahu hits snags in building team
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Josef Federman - February 5, 2013 - 1:00am

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to take office for a third time, his attempts to form a new coalition government have gotten off to a rocky start.

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Who Are the Israeli Centrists and Why Did They Vote for Yair Lapid?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Larry Derfner - (Opinion) February 5, 2013 - 1:00am

People overseas don’t understand the amazing success of Yair Lapid in Israel’s January 22 parliamentary elections. He hardly said a word about the Palestinians, the peace process, terrorism, war — all those things that Israelis are supposedly preoccupied with every waking minute.

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Textbook study faults Israelis and Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Diaa Hadid - February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

  Both Israeli and Palestinian schoolbooks largely present one-sided narratives of the conflict between the two peoples and tend to ignore the existence of the other side, but rarely resort to demonization, a U.S. State Department-funded study released Monday said. The study by Israeli, Palestinian and American researchers, billed as setting a new scientific standard, tackled a fraught issue — Israeli claims that Palestinians teach hatred of Israel and glorify violence in schoolbooks.

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Israelis unhappy with study of their textbooks and Palestinians’
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Joel Greenberg - February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

  A State Department-funded study released Monday on the contentious issue of how Israelis and Palestinians depict each other in textbooks says both are locked into narratives that portray the other side as the enemy and erase it from maps, yet do not dehumanize each other.

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Fayyad Welcomes the International Report on School Books, Calls on Israel to Cease Attempts to Detract from the Report’s Professionalism
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from
by Salam Fayyad - (Blog) February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

  Prime Minister Salam Fayyad expresses his satisfaction with a main finding of a study initiated by the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land in 2009, that confirms that Palestinian textbooks do not contain any form of blatant incitement, which is based on contempt towards the ‘other’.

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Changes in Jerusalem police brass bring crackdown on Arab residents
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Nir Hasson - February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

   Changes at the top of the Jerusalem District police are being felt in the eastern part of the capital. Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem have complained that the police, under New district commander Maj. Gen. Yossi Prienti, have been implementing an almost declared policy of collective punishment against neighborhoods considered too disruptive.

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Dissenters on Panel Blast Study Claiming Palestinian Textbooks Don't Vilify Jews
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Nathan Jeffay - February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

Controversy quickly engulfed a new study that said Palestinian textbooks do not incite hatred for Jews with Israel blasting the report — with some members of the report’s advisory panel claiming they were blindsided by its release.

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Israel’s ‘Gatekeepers’ break their silence
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Richard Cohen - (Film Review) February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

Imagine six former directors of the CIA talking with a distinguished filmmaker and confessing to the murder of two terrorism suspects, ordering the assassination of others, alleging a lack of real leadership by the president and stating to the camera and the entire world that the war in Afghanistan is an unconscionable botch — a bloody, daily slog without end or justification. This, of course, could never happen in the United States. It did, though, in Israel.

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‘The Gatekeepers’ is a harsh portrayal of life outside the ghetto of self-denial
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chemi Shalev - (Film Review) February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

The Gatekeepers is a very Israeli film. It is a film by Israelis, for Israelis and about Israelis. Even if it wins an Oscar. Even if you read the English subtitles. Even if you’ve heard that it mainly deals with the occupation, which it does, it is still essentially and exclusively Israeli.

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