HEADLINES & EDITORIALS Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:25:58 +0200 HAARETZ 1. FIRST TERROR ATTACK IN BETHLEHEM AREA SINCE TRANSFER OF AUTHORITY: MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN WOUNDED.
Israeli assessment: Palestinians will not dismantle terror; Israel rejects proposal for permanent ceasefire; 443 prisoners to be released in two days. 2. Missing: So far no proven connection between chain of disappearances in North. SEARCHING FOR BENNET IN NORTH, OR AT LEAST AN EXPLANATION. 3. Arabs: Families calling for committee members resignations and for public struggle. FAMILIES OF THOSE KILLED IN OCTOBER RIOTS DENOUNCE OR COMMITTEE. 4. AS OF TOMORROW: SANCTIONS IN LOCAL AUTHORITIES YET AGAIN. No reception hours, including welfare departments. Municipal supervision and engineers to strike. No parking tickets. Rubbish collection to continue as usual. 5. SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT CONSIDERING WITHDRAWING RECOMMENDATION NOT TO TRAVEL TO SINAI. HATZOFEH 1. Government decides: 443 terrorists to be released on Wednesday. Their names will be published today on the internet. 4 INJURED IN SHOOTING ATTACK NEAR HAR GILO. Har Gilo resident and her daughter seriously injured in shooting ambush. Another daughter and passenger lightly injured. IDF forces place curfew on Batir village nearby. Minister Orlev following attack: Delay release of prisoners. Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath proposed in meeting yesterday with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, complete and permanent ceasefire Shalom rejected offer. Today Abu Mazen to meet with heads of Palestinian factions, and will call on them to extend hudna agreement with Israel. Palestinian Authority decides not to transfer fugitives from Mukata to Jericho. 2. HIGH ALERT DUE TO FEARS OF ATTEMPTS TO KIDNAP SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. Search continues for Dana Bennet, missing since Thursday. Police still have no leads. 3. FOLLOWING GILAD SHARONS SILENCE: ATTORNEY GENERAL PLANNING TO ACT TO REDUCE RIGHT TO SILENCE. 4. TRANSPORT MINISTRY IMPOSING MORE STRINGENT SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR FLIGHTS TO ISRAEL. MAARIV 1. Turning point: IDF considering new route for separation fence. ARIEL BEYOND THE FENCE. American pressure working. Security establishment preparing for new possibility: Fence on Green Line, and at same time, internal fences around settlements. Last night: Mother and nine-year-old daughter injured in shooting attack in Har Gilo. 2. Expose: Netanyahus plan. HUGE TAX BREAKS FOR SETTLERS. Finance Minister agreed with National Union Knesset faction: 13% tax reduction in approximately 60 settlements. 3. FOUR DAYS WITHOUT DANA. Searches continue. 4. QUEEN RANIA ON WAY TO ISRAEL. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Kidnapping alerts: Special units stationed at intersections. MOTHER AND HER 3 CHILDREN WOUNDED IN HAR GILO TERROR ATTACK. Hayoun family from Har Gilo, were attacked last night on way home from holiday in Sinai. Mother, Tzila (39), in serious condition. Hadas (16) and Amitai (12) lightly wounded. 2. SUSPECT DETAINED IN CONNECTION WITH DANA BENNETS DISAPPEARANCE; WAS CONVICTED IN PAST FOR ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING. Youth resides in Galilee. Father of missing girl arriving today from US to aid searches. 3. SIGNS THAT RECESSION IS SLOWING DOWN. Bank of Israel: Increase in trade activity, in tourism, in transport and communications. Even so, unemployment increasing. 4. HIZBULLAH HACKED INTO ARMY RADIO. Took control of frequency and disrupted broadcasts in north. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot suggests that the Israeli right would not be overly saddened to see Prime Minister Sharon become embroiled in legal complications as a result of the investigations against his sons. The editors venture that paradoxically, Prime Minister Sharons strongest supporters right now are among the Israeli left because they know that he is the only Israeli leader with sufficient standing to produce some kind of lasting settlement with the Palestinians and make it stick. Hatzofeh accuses Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of benefiting from his sons silence in the investigations against them. The editors believe that the police would have raided the Sharon family residences a long time ago if an ordinary family was involved and allege that, According to investigators, an opportunity has been created in which it is possible to destroy evidence and obstruct investigations. Hatzofeh, in its second editorial, asserts that, Israels entry into negotiations on the release of prisoners, which is not on the list of Israeli obligations according to the roadmap, has caused unrest and a wave of disturbances in the prisons, and adds, The guilty party is the Prime Minister, who encouraged them to have expectations that he was susceptible to pressure and that it was possible to press him in order to get what they wanted. The editors aver that, Regrettably, the Prime Minister has put himself into a situation in which he is incapable of withstanding any pressure, and believe that, The only way to assure the survival of the country is to begin moves to topple Sharon. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, hails the work of the IDF military police.
