HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

HA’ARETZ 1. WATER AUTHORITY DIRECTOR: POSTPONING PRICE INCREASE WILL LEAD TO COLLAPSE OF DRINKING WATER SYSTEM.


HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS   HA’ARETZ 1. WATER AUTHORITY DIRECTOR: POSTPONING PRICE INCREASE WILL LEAD TO COLLAPSE OF DRINKING WATER SYSTEM. (…).   2. RARE STEP: MAZUZ CONSIDERS JOINING RESERVISTS LAWSUIT AGAINST DIRECTOR OF JENIN, JENIN.   3. MATERIAL IN TEITEL INVESTIGATION FILE REVEALED: DESCRIBED CRIES OF VICTIMS OF LGBT CLUB VICTIMS AND AFTERWARDS RECANTED.   MA’ARIV 1. WORLD WAITING FOR NEW AMERICAN NUCLEAR REPORT. Western diplomats assess: US intelligence understands that it erred in its 2007 conclusion that Iran does not aspire to a bomb.  World intelligence community and Mossad awaiting publication.   YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. (…). HURTING THE POOR. Water +25%, single price, hard blow to low income earners; Transportation +4.4%, most wealthy people use public transportation less; VAT –0.5%, the wealthy buy more and will, therefore, benefit from tax reduction the most. (…).   2. Testimony by Jewish terrorist Yaakov Teitel. „I WANTED TO ABDUCT AN ARAB AND MURDER HIM ON CAMERA.” In order to cause Arabs to hold stormy demonstrations and force police to cancel the gay pride march.  I planned to blow up booby-trapped UAV above march and blow up owners of Jerusalem gay bar.   YISRAEL HAYOM 1. REPORT: „ISRAEL TRIED TO ABDUCT SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL.” Gaza intelligence services commander: „We have arrested Palestinian collaborators who planned the abduction.”  „They tried to obtain information on whereabouts of Gilad Shalit and pass it onto the ISA.”   WALLA! 1. Shalit deal. USA OPPOSES BARGHOUTI RELEASE. According to Al Hayat, American administration has pressed Israel not to release senior Fatah figure in framework of release deal.  Several Arab countries also oppose his release on grounds that it would endanger Abu Mazen’s position.   2. LIVNI CAPITULATES?  CONSIDERING 2010 PRIMARIES. Conflict between Tzipi Livni and Shaul Mofaz will apparently lead to Kadima leadership primaries in the coming year.  Chairwoman’s confidantes: She wants to prevent Mofaz from jamming more sticks in the wheels.   NANA10 1. LIVNI CONSIDERING 2010 PRIMARIES; MOFAZ DEMANDS THAT DATE BE SET. Opposition Chairwoman’s confidantes claim that she is considering 2010 primaries in order to hurt Mofaz’s chances of winning.  Mofaz demanding meeting in order to set date but Livni is refusing, with claim that, „I am not dealing with this issue.”   2. HAMAS: ISA TRIED TO REACH SHALIT IN GAZA STRIP.   [Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:50.] ______________________________   SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS   Yediot Ahronot says that, „Hamas is not interested in a prisoner exchange deal and the continued negotiations only serve to strengthen the psychological warfare which it uses against Israeli society and in order to strengthen itself.”  The author suggests that, „…this is how negotiations are conducted in the Middle East.  The other side must be placed in a dilemma in which it feels that tomorrow it will receive much less than today.”   Ma’ariv claims that, „The Wisconsin Project is not ideal, but it is more effective and less expensive than the Employment Service.”  The author adds that, „Its opponents are correct in that the program did not rescue workers from poverty, but the Employment Service also has not succeeded in doing so and the number of poor is only growing.  For this, what are needed is real investment in education and professional training, not demagogy.   Yisrael Hayom opines that, „At the moment, Israel has a rare opportunity to make a fundamental change in its behavior towards terrorist extortion…  The Government must apply pressure on Hamas to the point of threatening its regime.”   Nana10 contends that, „Israel is supposed to be a law-abiding country.  But if it was, a policy of eliminating Palestinian terrorists, after the perpetration of an act, would not be countenanced.”  The author argues that, „The political echelons could not have approved a more problematic operation than the elimination in Nablus at the current time.  Why risk igniting the entire West Bank and an additional weakening of the Palestinian Authority just before a supposed renewal of negotiations?  Because Netanyahu compulsively shoots from the hip.”

 

 

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