HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS HAARETZ 1. SADDAMS REGIME COLLAPSES: BAGHDAD IN US HANDS. (
). IDF to recommend this morning that DM lower alert level in Israel.
2. STRIKE CANCELLED, BUT MAY RETURN AFTER PASSOVER. HATZOFEH 1. INDEPENDENCE DAY. (
). Israel: Deployment continues reservists to be discharged. 2. STRIKE CANCELLED CANCELLATION OF SANCTIONS BEING CONSIDERED. 3. IDF FORCES OPERATE IN BEIT HANOUN. Terrorists fire mortar rounds and Kassam rockets. 4. STUDENT CAUSES EXPLOSION AT JENIN SCHOOL. 5. ISRAEL AND US TO COOPERATE IN AREA OF DOMESTIC SECURITY. 6. WAR IN IRAQ: ECONOMY LOST 400,000 WORK DAYS. MAARIV 1. LIBERATION. (
). 2. GREAT STRIKE CANCELLED AT LEAST UNTIL AFTER HOLIDAYS in wake of temporary agreement achieved after midnight between Histadrut and Finance Ministry. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. VICTORY. (
). In Israel: Release of reservists and lowering of alert to be decided upon this morning. 2. STRIKE AND SANCTIONS CANCELLED. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot says that, Baghdad has woken up from a decades-long nightmare of brutal dictatorship, and adds that, The citizens of Iraq see the American army as an army of liberation, an army of democracy. The editors cite the precedent of post-World War II Japan and assert that, The establishment of democracy in Iraq, by Iraqis and for Iraqis, will take time but will cause an earthquake throughout the Middle East. The paper predicts that, At last, the truth will be revealed: It is the authoritarian, dictatorial and non-democratic regimes not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which are the problem of Arab and Islamic worlds, and adds that, Getting rid of one such regime is likely to cause a chain reand one by one eliminate the dictatorships in Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya and Saudi Arabia. Hatzofeh refers to the suspension of plans for a general strike and calls on both the Finance Ministry and the Histadrut to negotiate openly and in good faith.
