Morocco offers a paradigm for good ties with Jews
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star
by Adina Friedman - February 22, 2013 - 1:00am


At a ceremony recently marking the end of the restoration of a 17th-century synagogue in Fez’s Old City, Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane read a message from King Mohammad VI hailing Morocco’s “spiritual wealth and diversity” and the “values of coexistence, tolerance and harmony between the different components of the nation.”


Israel poses a serious dilemma for Europe's Jews
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Lawrence Pintak - (Opinion) February 14, 2013 - 1:00am


 


Is BDS Hate Speech?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from
(Editorial) February 14, 2013 - 1:00am


 


"Herod the Great" show in Israel angers Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Ori Lewis - February 13, 2013 - 1:00am


The Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday unveiled a display dedicated to Herod - branded a baby-killer in the Christian tradition but remembered by many in Israel for rebuilding the Jewish Temple two millennia ago.


Rising From Ruins
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Raja Shehadeh - (Opinion) February 13, 2013 - 1:00am


 


Build two-state bridges not walls
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Ibrahim Shomali - (Opinion) February 12, 2013 - 1:00am


Today, an Israeli court in Tel Aviv will decide the fate of our land. It will judge whether Israel’s annexation Wall will be built right through the heart of our community.


In Israel, hatred begins at home. Every home. So does hope.
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Bradley Burston - February 12, 2013 - 1:00am


I was born into an America of segregation and skewed horizons, of ingrained prejudice of word, of heart, of workplace, of residence. Yet it was not until I came to live in Israel that I began to understand racism. I was born into an America where the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party taught people to hate people like me. But I was taught to be a minority secreted inside a majority, and it was only when I came to live in the Middle East that I began to understand extremism.


Memo to President Obama: Bypass Netanyahu - reach Israelis’ hearts
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Carlo Strenger - (Opinion) February 6, 2013 - 1:00am


Dear President Obama, Like many millions around the globe, I celebrated your election as a triumph for the ideals of freedom and dignity four years ago, and, like many others, I called upon you to visit Israel. To this day I think you made a mistake in not doing so in your first term, but I still profoundly rejoiced in your reelection last month.


In rejecting Arab MK, Yair Lapid also rejects Jewish values
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Dmitry Shumsky - (Opinion) February 3, 2013 - 1:00am


It is probably a coincidence that last Friday, two articles about Yair Lapid, the big winner in Israel's last elections, ran on the same page of Haaretz. One article reported that Lapid had distanced himself publicly from the possibility of creating a bloc including representatives of the Arab-Palestinian minority in the Knesset – whom he referred to as “Zuabis” – in an effort to replace the prime minister.


Criticize Israel – but without the vile and offensive cartoons
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Rachel Shabi - (Opinion) January 30, 2013 - 1:00am


It’s a rare event for me to be in agreement with the U.K. Jewish Chronicle's editor, Stephen Pollard, but that is what happened after the publication of a cartoon by Gerald Scarfe in last weekend's London Sunday Times, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.



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