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Why Israel fears a free Egypt
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Aaron David Miller - (Editorial) February 6, 2011 - 1:00am Having dealt with the Israelis for the better part of 40 years, I have learned never to dismiss or trivialize their foundational fears. As both former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and current premier Binyamin Netanyahu reminded me on different occasions, Israelis don't live in some leafy Washington suburb, but in a much tougher neighborhood. And today, it is impossible to overstate the angst, even hysteria, that Israelis are feeling about their neighborhood as they watch what is unfolding in the streets of Cairo. |
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UK to Israel: help us curb Iran with Palestine deal
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Dan Williams - February 6, 2011 - 1:00am Israel could bolster the international campaign to head off Iran's nuclear programme by pursuing peace with the Palestinians, Britain said on Sunday. |
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Suddenly, Israel sees peace asset?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Gideon Levy - February 3, 2011 - 1:00am Suddenly peace has become an asset for Israel, and suddenly Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has become Israel's best friend. Like a man about to lose the woman he abused for years, and only then recognizes her value - far too late - Israel is now hunkering down, frightened of what the future will bring. What if the new government in Egypt revokes the peace treaty? |
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Who is Uri Avnery, and Why Does He Matter?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Ideas Daily by Aryeh Tepper - February 3, 2011 - 1:00am Jerusalem's decision in the early 1990's to admit Yasir Arafat and his fellow thugs into the heart of the land of Israel proved to be one of the country's major political blunders, paid for in the coin of a five-year terror war that traumatized Israeli society and transformed the dream of Israeli-Palestinian peace into an extended nightmare. How did it happen? |
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Between the hammer and the anvil
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Oraib Al-Rantawi - February 3, 2011 - 1:00am Over the last decade, Jordan's policies have centered on a single assumption: that the creation of a viable Palestinian state is a major pillar of Jordan's security and stability. Even more so, it is vital to Jordan's existence and identity. Based on this assumption, Jordan stood firm behind the peace process and was a strong supporter of the two-state solution. In that light, Jordan supported the Arab Peace Initiative and US President George W. Bush's vision for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Equally, Jordan called for the implementation of the roadmap and signed agreements. |
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Egypt crisis spells trouble for Mideast peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press by Josef Federman - February 2, 2011 - 1:00am Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has only recently and grudgingly accepted the idea of an independent Palestinian state next to Israel. With Egypt in flux, efforts to bring this about may soon go into deep freeze. Israel's main concern is whether its peace agreement with Egypt, which underpins its security in a hostile Arab world, can survive without President Hosni Mubarak at the helm. |
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Israeli or Palestinian? Umm Al-Fahm Residents Are Divided
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line by David Miller, Arieh O'Sullivan - February 2, 2011 - 1:00am The narrow streets of Umm Al-Fahm, one of the largest Arab towns in Israel, are steep as they wind up the hillside of the town that sits in a topographical bowl overlooking the biblical Plain of Jezreel. The 50,000 residents of this town of cinderblock houses and large golden-domed mosques are on the literal edge of the Western democratic state of Israel an hour’s drive from Tel Aviv, rubbing shoulders with what may be the future Palestinian state in the West Bank on the other side of the nearby fence. |
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B.E., Before Egypt. A.E., After Egypt.
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Thomas L. Friedman - (Editorial) February 1, 2011 - 1:00am I’m meeting a retired Israeli general at a Tel Aviv hotel. As I take my seat, he begins the conversation with: “Well, everything we thought for the last 30 years is no longer relevant.” |
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Israel, Alone Again?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Yossi Klein Halevi - (Editorial) February 1, 2011 - 1:00am ISRAELIS want to rejoice over the outbreak of protests in Egypt’s city squares. They want to believe that this is the Arab world’s 1989 moment. Perhaps, they say, the poisonous reflex of blaming the Jewish state for the Middle East’s ills will be replaced by an honest self-assessment. |
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The Real 'Palestine Papers' Scandal
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Wall Street Journal by Michael Weiss - (Editorial) February 1, 2011 - 1:00am Last week Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera and Britain's Guardian newspaper released a tranche of 1,600 documents that appear to consist of Palestinian negotiators' emails and meeting minutes covering the past 10 years of manic-depressive Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. |