Pro-Palestinian Advocates Sense Winds of Change in Washington
Media Mention of Ghaith al-Omari In The Jewish Daily Forward - June 11, 2009 - 12:00am

Changes in America’s policy toward the Middle East conflict are sending positive vibrations throughout the small and struggling pro-Palestinian advocacy community.

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Palestinian FM: We'll have majority in 20 years
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Ali Waked - June 11, 2009 - 12:00am

The alternative to the two-state vision is a bi-national state, where Palestinians will be the majority, PA Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Maliki said Thursday after meeting with European Union representatives. The Palestinian foreign minister said that "Israel continues its occupation, which has become the world's longest-lasting occupation," urging the international community to "intervene in order to put an end to it."

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A sign of optimism for Palestinian freedom
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Chicago Tribune
by Mustafa Barghouthi - (Opinion) June 10, 2009 - 12:00am

Throughout decades of struggle for Palestinian freedom, there has been little cause for optimism. Today, I am optimistic.

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US envoy Mitchell meets Palestinian leaders
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC News
June 10, 2009 - 12:00am

US Middle East envoy George Mitchell has held talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, as part of renewed US peace efforts. Mr Abbas's top negotiator said the meeting had been "positive" and called on both sides to stick to commitments made under the 2003 "roadmap". On Monday Mr Mitchell met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He reiterated calls for a two-state solution, which the Israeli leader has refused to endorse. Mr Netanyahu is scheduled to give a major foreign-policy speech on Sunday.

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US envoy backs 'Palestinian aspirations'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC News
June 10, 2009 - 12:00am

The US is seeking a "early conclusion" of peace talks leading to Palestinian statehood, its special Mid-East envoy said after talks in Ramallah. Former Senator George Mitchell was speaking to reporters after meeting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town. The US is experiencing unusual tension in relations with Israel over its opposition to Palestinian independence. He said meeting both sides' aspirations was the "only viable solution".

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Pro-Palestinian Advocates Sense Winds of Change in Washington
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Nathan Guttman - June 10, 2009 - 12:00am

Changes in America’s policy toward the Middle East conflict are sending positive vibrations throughout the small and struggling pro-Palestinian advocacy community.

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Jordan has the jitters over Palestinian state proposal
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
by Suha Philip Ma’ayeh - June 3, 2009 - 12:00am

When Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, described a Right-wing parliamentarian’s proposal that Jordan serve as a Palestinian state as “baseless hallucination”, it did little to quell concern here. The proposal by Arieh Eldad, a member of the Knesset, last week sent a shudder through political circles and sparked calls for Jordan to abrogate its 1994 peace treaty with Israel.

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Anger over Palestinian Nakba ban proposal
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC News
May 25, 2009 - 12:00am

Israeli campaigners and left-wing lawmakers have condemned moves to ban Israeli Arabs from marking the Nakba - the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation. On Sunday a government panel backed putting the bill, proposed by the party of far-right Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, before the Israeli Knesset. A Labour minister opposed it; Hadash, a mainly Arab party, called it "racist". Some 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes in the 1948 war after Israel declared independence.

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Israeli Arabs blast plan for PA to cede Temple Mount sovereignty
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Aluf Benn, Avi Issacharoff, Jack Khoury, Barak Ravid - May 21, 2009 - 12:00am

The northern branch of the Islamic Movement blasted Thursday a proposal for the Palestinian Authority to relinquish sovereignty over the Temple Mount in exchange for international Islamic control of the site. "The proposal to transfer sovereignty to a third state stems from the attempted to internationalize the Al Aqsa Mosque, and actually this is a proposal whose significance is the continuation of the occupation; therefore, such a proposal must be aggressively rejected," the Israeli Arab group said in a statement.

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A friend of Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) May 21, 2009 - 12:00am

It's already clear: the U.S. president is a great friend of Israel. If Barack Obama continues what he started this week, he might prove to be the friendliest president to Israel ever. Richard Nixon saved Israel from the Arab states in 1973, and Obama is about to save Israel from itself. Nixon sent us arms and ammunition at a critical time, and Obama is sending us, at a time no less critical, the substance of a complete peace plan, a plan that would save Israel.

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