4,11,2003 HAARETZ 1. KNESSET TO DISCUSS BUDGET TODAY; FINANCE MINISTRY-HISTADRUT NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE. Labor Court prohibits strike until Thursday talks; MKs demanding NIS 4 billion worth of changes to budget. 2. PM: Sharon optimistic regarding stability of Abu Ala, ready for resumption of dialogue with PA and hasnt forgotten White Paper. LET US NOT FORGET, WERE TALKING ABOUT ARABS HERE, SHARON SAID AND CORRECTED: TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. 3. PMS ADVISER TO LAPID COMMITTEE: MAKE ARABS FLY NATIONAL FLAG. 4. EU: Commission report published in full. EUROPE: POLL IS MARGINAL; SHARON: ANTI-SEMITISM. HATZOFEH 1. Anat Savidor, attorney who accompanied Greek island affair suspended. SUSPICION: LEAKS FROM SHARON INVESTIGATION. (
). 2. ATTACK FOILED: TERRORIST BLEW HIMSELF UP BEFORE ENTERING ISRAELI TERRITORY. 3. STRUGGLE OVER 2004 BUDGET AND ARRANGEMENTS LAW STARTS TODAY IN KNESSET. 4. LABOR COURT HALTS STRIKE. Today: Sanctions at government offices to continue, workers to hold demonstrations. Negotiations resume between Finance Ministry and Histadrut. 5. GIANT BUDGET DEFICITS EXPECTED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. MAARIV 1. Closing accounts: Journalist turned in source. TRAP FOR PROSECUTOR. (
). 2. MARCHING FOR RON. They finished pilots course together 25 years ago. Today, they are beginning campaign to ask everyone: Dont forget him. 3. THREATS ON PERETZS LIFE. Labor Court quashes mother of all strikes and approves symbolic four-hour strike. Peretz: If negotiations dont make progress, we will resume struggle. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Embarrassment at State Prosecutors Office: Another leak from sensitive file. ATTORNEY WHO LEAKED FROM SHARON FILE SUSPENDED. (
). 2. 4 November 2003: HAVENT LEARNED ANYTHING. Picture of Histadrut Chairman Amir Peretz as Hitler reached his office yesterday on eve of assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
________________________________________ Yediot Ahronot comments on the numerous meetings that are taking place between various Israeli and Palestinian sources at all political and military levels, and is hopeful that a ceasefire might result. The editors believe that, This time, as opposed to the last, the ceasefire must be combined as much as possible with diplomatic expectations. If the ceasefire is properly enforced for a significant period of time, a positive dynamic is likely to be created on both sides, which will weaken the extremists. And mainly: to give hope and not just to the Palestinian public. The paper urges both sides not to demand unrealistic from the other since the talks are sure to fail in such a situation, and reminds its readers that if we miss yet another opportunity we will only be left with Arafat. Hatzofeh praises the National Labor Court ruling postponing the strike and says that It gives both sides, the Treasury and the Histadrut, a chance to climb down from their high horse and begin real talks on reaching a settlement. The editors regret that The argument, as it has been conducted until now, has crossed all acceptable boundaries, and urges both sides to take steps to help the Israeli economy to recover.BPI.
