HAARETZ 1. 16 MURDERED IN JERUSALEM SUICIDE ATTACK; SHARON: WE WILL PURSUE HAMAS. TWO HAMAS TERRORISTS AND SIX PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS KILLED IN GAZA ELIMINATION.
Terrorist dressed as haredi and blew up on bus on Jaffa Road. 135 people injured in attack, 10 in serious condition. One name released: Tamar Ben Eliyahu, 19, from Paran. Hamas claims responsibility: This is vengeance for attempt on Rantisi. Bush condemns terror attack; calls on world to help in preventing terror. Arafat condemns terror and calls for immediate ceasefire. Attacks on Gaza were planned irrespective of Jerusalem terror attack. 2. NUMBER OF ISRAELI DEAD SINCE BEGINNING OF CONFLICT: 804. 3. GOVERNMENT TO VOTE TODAY ON ADDITIONAL CUTS; MOFAZ AND AYALON: SECURITY WILL BE HARMED. HATZOFEH 1. 16 murdered and approximately 100 injured in bus bombing opposite Davidka Square in Jerusalem. HORROR ON THE ROAD Hamas terrorist, dressed as a haredi, got on bus one stop before Davidka, and waited until it reached next bus stop, opposite Clal Center, in a busy area. He waited for passengers to get on and detonated the bomb. Hamas claims responsibility: response to Rantisi. Arafat: Hamas and Israel must stop terror. Diplomatic sources: End to Aqaba euphoria. 10 suicide bombers have been detained since Aqaba summit. 2. TITO MASSOUD ELIMINATED RESPONSIBLE FOR MANUFACTURING AND FIRING KASSAM ROCKETS. Fighting continues in Gaza; Kassam rockets fired yesterday at Sderot as well. 3. TANZIM TERRORIST WHO WAS INVOLVED IN MURDEROUS ATTACKS IN BINYAMIN ARRESTED. He was involved in the murder of Gideon Lichterman, he murdered Tzion David, and was involved in additional terror attacks perpetrated by the Mukata cell. 4. GOVERNMENT BEGINS DISCUSSION OF ADDITIONAL BUDGET CUTS. 5. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE: DELAY EVACUATION OF TWO OUTPOSTS UNTIL RESIDENTS HAVE HAD THEIR SAY. MAARIV 1. 987 days. 804 dead. WE HAVE RETURNED TO WAR. Seven days ago, on lawn in Aqaba, Sharon and Abu Mazen spoke about an end to terror. Yesterday hope was shattered. 17:26, central Jerusalem: terrorist dressed as a haredi blows himself up on Egged bus and murders 16 Israelis. Hamas announces: This is just the beginning. A few minutes later attack helicopters hit heart of Gaza City and killed eight Palestinians, including two senior Hamas terrorists. Security sources: W will step up all-out fight to the finish against terror. 2. BUDGET CUTS LIKELY TO THREATEN MATRICULATION EXAMS. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. In heart of Jerusalem: 16 murdered in suicide bombing. BLOODY PATH. Terrorist dressed up as a haredi blew himself up on #14 bus number. Rescuers told: We used our hands to stop people burning. Sharon promises: We will pursue murderers, but we will make progress in the diplomatic process. Senior Hamas terrorist responsible for Kassam fire eliminated, IDF preparing for Gaza operation. 2. 808 MURDERED. In terror attack yesterday, we crossed the line to over 800 murdered since the beginning of the intifada, in less than three years. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot comments on yesterdays murderous suicide attack in Jerusalem and says that, Everything that it is possible to say has already been said. The editors ask, Is it possible to talk with Hamas? and reply, No. One cannot talk with a terrorist organization. Terror must be eliminated. If only somebody knew how. The paper suggests that US President Bush can neither compel Hamas to halt its campaign of terror nor oblige Prime Minister Sharon to halt the eliminations. The editors remark: Ceasefire? Between who exactly? The Palestinian Authority does not exist. What does exist in Palestine is poverty, unemployment, hatred and fanaticism. There is the man in the street consumed by hatred, who has nothing to lose but his life, which, in any case is worth zero. The paper ventures that the eliminations, like the terror attacks, just make the other side take an even harder line, and are no longer useful, and also doubts the efficacy of both expulsions and home demolitions. The editors allege that the government has yet to hold an in-depth and strategic debate on what Israels foreign policy and security goals are. The paper concludes by suggesting that there currently exists a viable option for trying to end the bloodshed and calls for bold leadership that can move forward, leadership that isnt constantly looking back at its citizens, because they are perplexed and confused. Hatzofeh accuses US President Bush of hypocrisy in criticizing Israel for taking the same actions in its war against Palestinian terror that the US has taken in its wars against Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. The editors aver that, It is becoming increasingly clear that Abu Mazen is nothing more than Yasser Arafats scarecrow and that Hamas controls the Palestinian street more than the Palestinian Authority. The paper suggests that, Only the American method of directed fire at anyone who raises his head, regardless of how the media reacts, might bring the Palestinians to realize that negotiations are preferable to terror.
