UN official criticizes Israel over ongoing Gaza blockade
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
May 29, 2012 - 12:00am

The UN official responsible for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday that Israel has been too slow to relax its blockade of Gaza, which has devastated the isolated economy and failed to achieve its security goals.

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Turkish Court Indicts 4 Israeli Military Leaders
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - May 28, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — An Istanbul court approved indictments on Monday against four senior Israeli military figures for involvement in a deadly raid on a Turkish passenger vessel trying to breach Israel’s naval blockade of

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Amnesty Int'l slams Gaza blockade, settlements
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel is criticized for violating the human rights of West Bank and Gaza Palestinians in Amnesty International's yearly report on the state of the world's human rights released on Wednesday. "Israel maintained its blockade of Gaza, prolonging the humanitarian crisis there, and continued aggressively to expand settlements in the Palestinian West Bank territory it has occupied since 1967," the report posited.

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‘Citizen journalism’ focuses on Israeli occupation
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

ASEERA AL-QIBLIYA, West Bank — Amateur video of Israeli soldiers appearing to watch idly as settlers opened fire on Palestinians throwing stones has emphasised the growing power of "citizen journalism" in the occupied West Bank.

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Boycotting the settlements is justified
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

I don't buy merchandise that comes from the settlements and I never will. To my way of thinking, those are stolen goods and, like any other goods that have been stolen, I try not to buy them. Now perhaps the South Africans and the Danes also will not buy them; meanwhile their governments have merely requested that products from the settlements be marked so as not to deceive their customers. Just as there was no need in the past to label merchandise from the British colonies as British products, so there is no need to mark products from Israel's colonies as Israeli.

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Amnesty International: Israel frequently uses excessive force against Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
May 24, 2012 - 12:00am

The Amnesty International 2012 annual report was released on Wednesday, detailing the violation of human rights worldwide. The report is highly critical of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, charging that the Israel Defense Forces frequently uses excessive, sometimes lethal, force against demonstrators in the West Bank and civilians in Gaza. The IDF this year has killed 55 civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, including 11 children, the report said.

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Turkey May Indict Senior Israeli Officers Over Deadly Gaza Flotilla Raid
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Rick Gladstone - May 23, 2012 - 12:00am

A prosecutor in Turkey has prepared indictments and recommended life sentences for four senior Israeli officers over the killing of nine activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla forcibly intercepted by Israeli commandos two years ago, Turkish news services reported Wednesday. The indictments, which have not been formally approved by the Turkish judiciary, could further strain relations between Turkey and Israel, which were once close but which deteriorated badly after the flotilla raid on May 31, 2010.

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Israel: South Africa's desire to label West Bank goods is 'racist'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Joshua Mitnick - May 21, 2012 - 12:00am

In the 45 years since gaining control of the West Bank, Israel has refrained from formally annexing the territory claimed by the Palestinians, in part out of fear of an international uproar. In trade, however, Israel has been labeling goods from Jewish settlements there as “Made in Israel” for years.

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Op-Ed: When Israel lacks leadership, we should speak up
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
by James B. Klutznick - (Opinion) May 21, 2012 - 12:00am

When a family member behaves self-destructively, what do you do? Do you become an apologist, an enabler, or do you call him out? Do you blame everyone else but him, or do you intervene? Do you sit back and just hope things will improve on their own, or do you take urgent action?

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Israel blasts foreign proposal on settlement goods
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Amy Teibel - May 20, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — The Palestinian campaign to boycott goods produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank has received a boost from abroad with an unprecedented South African proposal to have the name of Israel dropped from labels on merchandise made in the settlements. The South African government issued a notice saying it wants to require merchants "not to incorrectly label products that originate from the Occupied Palestinian Territory as products of Israel."

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