11/09/2012

Media Outlet: 
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
Article Type: 
Analysis
Date: 
November 8, 2012

 

The Palestinian Authority's bid for an upgrade in U.N. status is of immediate concern in the U.S.-Israel relationship, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren said in a post-U.S. election interview.



Senior Palestinian official claims Abbas may postpone UN move, report says

Article Author(s): 
Yoel Goldman
Media Outlet: 
The Times of Israel
Article Type: 
Analysis
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 

A senior Palestinian official said Friday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas may be willing to postpone a move for upgraded UN status if the US were to offer a “clear objective” for negotiations, Israel Radio reported.



Snapshot: (Palestinian) Girl, interrupted

Article Author(s): 
Tal Niv
Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Analysis
Date: 
November 8, 2012

 

Everything is inverted in this sad, wrenching photograph by AP’s Majdi Mohammed, taken November 2. Inverted, because it is not possible to know whether the small, brazen, bold, desperate fist, held fearlessly and on the brink of mortal threat by the daughter of the Palestinian activist Nariman Tamimi, marks the moment in which a freedom fighter is forged and steeled, or the moment in which this girl is vanquished.



Irish FM: No chance for E.U. ban on settlement goods

Media Outlet: 
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
Article Type: 
Analysis
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 

 Ireland would support a European Union ban on settlement goods, but "there is no prospect for reaching an agreement" on such a ban, the Irish foreign minister said.



Palatial West Bank homes cost Palestinians dear

Media Outlet: 
The Jordan Times
Article Type: 
Analysis
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 

Subhi Mustafa spent 35 years abroad, including a decade in the United States, but now that he has built his dream home in his West Bank village, he isn’t planning on going anywhere else.



Israel historian Benny Morris responds to critics left and right

Article Author(s): 
Edmund Sanders
Media Outlet: 
The Los Angeles Times
Article Type: 
Interview
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 

Historian Benny Morris has a knack for enraging Israelis of every political stripe.



Betting on the wrong horse: The night Benjamin Netanyahu will not soon forget

Article Author(s): 
Yossi Verter
Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 



Netanyahu can relax, Obama won't punish him

Article Author(s): 
Aluf Benn
Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 

National interests determine relationships between states, not the love or loathing between their leaders. So, despite the mutual antipathy between the reelected American president and the Israeli prime minister, Barack Obama is not likely to "punish" Benjamin Netanyahu for interfering in the election through his open support for Republican contender Mitt Romney.



Does Bibi Need to Worry About His Relationship With Obama?

Article Author(s): 
Eli Bardenstein
Media Outlet: 
Al-Monitor
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 



The 'Exodus' effect: The monumentally fictional Israel that remade American Jewry

Article Author(s): 
Bradley Burston
Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 

The pantheon of Jewish-American novelists is as populous as it is distinguished. Among its titans are two Nobel laureates, Chicago native Saul Bellow and Polish-born Isaac Bashevis Singer; a justly celebrated string of Pulitzer winners from Edna Ferber through Philip Roth to Michael Chabon; and the creators of such works as "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Catch 22."



Powder keg in Gaza

Article Author(s): 
Michael Herzog
Media Outlet: 
The Jerusalem Post
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
November 9, 2012

The violent blows exchanged between Israel and armed Islamist groups in Gaza over the past few weeks mark a dangerous shift. The pattern of occasional clashes established after Israel’s 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead has given way to protracted fire with very short lulls.



The line Obama needs to learn

Article Author(s): 
George S. Hishmeh
Media Outlet: 
The Jordan Times
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 

Barack Obama is back at the White House for four more years — a step that delighted many in a shockingly divided United States and elsewhere, despite the fact that the American president and his right-wing Republican opponent virtually split the popular vote — 50.4 per cent of the votes went to the African-American president and 48 per cent to Mitt Romney.



Israeli affront to Obama

Media Outlet: 
Arab News
Article Type: 
Editorial
Date: 
November 9, 2012

JUST in case he had any illusions that the Israeli government has any interest whatsoever in supporting a new Palestinian peace initiative, on the very day of his re-election, president Obama received a slap in the face from Premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
Even as the echo of the victory cheers of the president’s supporters were still



Abu Mazen Pressured By New Hamas Alliances

Article Author(s): 
Nervana Mahmoud
Media Outlet: 
Al-Monitor
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
November 9, 2012

 

It may be subtle, it may be slow, but undoubtedly the uprisings in the Arab world — particularly in Egypt — have resulted in new dynamics on the Palestinian front. Hamas, whose members were once shunned and isolated by the Egyptian leadership under former President Hosni Mubarak, is now slowly gaining strength and support, not just from the Brotherhood in Egypt and Jordan, but also from Turkey and Qatar.



Yes He Can Make Peace

Article Author(s): 
Gershon Baskin
Media Outlet: 
The Daily Beast
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
November 9, 2012

The Palestinians and the Israelis will not give the newly re-elected President time to breathe. In November, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will request that the General Assembly recognize Palestine as a non-member state with observer status.


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