HAARETZ 1. OVER 20,000 DEAD IN ASIAN EARTHQUAKE. (
). US, UK and Israel offer to assist the injured. 2. Israel and PA. APPARENT: SHARON AND ABU MAZEN TO MEET ONLY IN NOVEMBER. 3. FOUR DAYS OF INTERROGATION. Ministerial committee approves stiffening of detention conditions for those suspected of security offenses. 4. Egyptians disrupted export of closed palm fronds and prices rose five-fold. THIS ISNT BUYING A CLOSED PALM FROND, HAREDI JEWS COMPLAIN, ITS INVESTING IN THE STOCK MARKET. HATZOFEH 1. DEADLY DAY ON HIGHWAYS: SIX PEOPLE KILLED IN ACCIDENTS. (
). 2. TERRORISTS WHO PLANNED TO BLOW UP AZRIELI TOWERS CONVICTED. 3. SHARON-ABU MAZEN MEETING IN DOUBT. Still unsure whether Sharon-Abu Mazen meeting planned for tomorrow will actually take place. Yesterday: Weisglass-Erekat meeting failed to reach understanding on substantive matters and they are due to meet again today. 4. FIRST GESTURE: ISRAEL OPENS KARNI CROSSING EVEN AS TERRORISM CONTINUES. Yesterday: Israel decided to open Karni crossing to goods as of yesterday morning. 5. END TO CLOSED PALM FROND CRISIS: 600,000 CLOSED PALM FRONDS EN ROUTE TO ISRAEL. (
). MAARIV 1. Drunk driver, without a valid license, with 21 previous offenses, at 160 kph, ANARCHY CONTINUES: SEVEN DEAD ON HIGHWAYS. (
). 369 killed since beginning of year. 2. US PLANNED ATTACK ON SYRIA AND BACKED OFF. Newsweek reveals: Senior Washington officials already had their hand on the trigger. But Rice insisted: Too early for military strike. 3. IDF DECLARES WAR ON SUICIDES. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. ABU MAZEN: GIVE ME GESTURES. ISRAEL: NOT SO FAST. US and Jordan working to prevent cancellation of Sharon-Abu Mazen meeting tomorrow due to disagreements. Diplomatic sources: Palestinians want to receive everything immediately but we must act gradually. 2. AL-QAIDA ESTABLISHED TERRORISM BASE IN SINAI. OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Zeevi (Farkash): Base surrounded by mines and aids in infiltrating terrorists into Gaza. Egypt refraining from acting against it. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot objects to the insistence that Hamas and other Palestinian organizations be required to meet several conditions, especially that of disarming, as a prerequisite to participating in the upcoming PA legislative elections, and advises: Let others decide on the character of the regime they desire. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, comments on Spains efforts including the use of fences and other barriers to keep Moroccans seeking work out of its North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. The editors refer to Israels security fence and assert that, The difference is that the security fence is not between us in order to repel innocent job-seekers but to prevent those who want to kill us from achieving their aims. The paper says that Israel would be better able to make its case if it had built the fence closer to the Green Line. Hatzofeh cites Foreign Minister Silvan Shaloms recent comments that Egypt is not doing enough to prevent weapons smuggling from Sinai into the Gaza Strip and avers that, Egypt is more dangerous to Israel than Iran due to the mask that it wears as if it is striving to help achieve peace between Israel and its neighbors. The editors urge the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to discuss the issue immediately.
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