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The Jerusalem Post discusses US Secretary of State John Kerry’s simple, elegant solution of placing cameras on the Temple Mount in an effort to resolve the strife there.  The editor notes the proposal was endorsed by Jordan’s King Abdullah and welcomed by Israel but rejected by the Palestinians, and asserts that “US pressure on the PA to stop incitement and end the violence should include bolstering Jordan’s role in restoring the peace, which will best be served by installing the surveillance cameras. They are an objective way to refute Palestinian incitement alleging Israel’s violation of Muslim sensibilities on the Temple Mount.”

Haaretz comments on the prime minister’s disputed appointment of the new head of the National Information Directorate and declares: “it’s not the eyebrow-raising candidate who’s to blame. The responsibility falls entirely on the man who appointed him, a serial failure.” The editor questions the logic of appointing a head to the National Information Directorate who has publicly called Obama anti-Semitic and Kerry childish on the eve of the prime minister’s official visit to Washington, during which he is expected to talk with Obama about America’s military aid package for Israel, and argues: “When one or two appointments turn out badly, the fault might lie in the candidates. But when it happens so constantly and consistently, even the glibbest of spokesmen has to admit that the one making the appointments is simply a fail ure.”

Yediot Aharonot contends that the only way to save Jewish Jerusalem is by removing most of the 28 Palestinian villages that were annexed to the city in 1967, thus returning 200,000- 250,000 of the city’s Palestinian residents to the West Bank, and asserts: “All we have to do now is to amend Basic Law: Jerusalem so that all the Palestinian villages will return to the West Bank, and Jerusalem – with a large Jewish majority and the Holy Basin within its boundaries – will be under Israeli sovereignty. That is the way to restore security for the citizens of Jerusalem and all of Israel.”

Israel Hayom discusses the refusal of the highly acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz to participate at events held in his honor at Israeli embassies around the world, “in protest of Israel’s ‘radicalizing’ policies,” and asks: “How else can he express his virulent opposition to the policies of a government that wants to perpetuate the rule over another people?” The author believes that rather than boycott the events, the proper response should be fighting for his opinion in his own way, i.e. “using the meetings at the consulates and embassies to express his views freely,” and asserts: “Any boycott is off-limits. We must boycott all boycotts.”

Globes comments on the Israeli perspective of the changes that have been taking place in the global arena over the past decade, namely the fall of the US as the leading world power, and the rise of others to fill the vacuum, most notably the rise of Iran as a regional power and Russia and China as global contenders, and states: “If Israel can juggle relations with Russia and the Sunni powers, while continuing to expand economic and financial relations with China, India and other countries of the Far East and South Asia, it may come out of the current quagmire unscathed and even with its security enhanced.”