7.12.2003 HAARETZ 1. HAMAS AGREES NOT TO HARM CIVILIANS; REFUSES COMPREHENSIVE CEASEFIRE FOR ONE YEAR. In wake of American pressure: Illegal outposts to be evacuated already this week. Cairo understandings regarding civilians includes settlers. PA and Egyptian proposal for bilateral hudna rejected. Israel: If there is quiet, IDF will not operate in territories.
UN to ask international court in Hague for opinion on fence. Geneva understandings: US administration content to fostering encouragement. Washington: Sharon-Bush meeting next month. 2. 2006 WORLD CUP PRELIMINARIES: ISRAEL AGAINST FRANCE, IRELAND AND SWITZERLAND. Israel placed in Group Four, which also includes Cyprus and Faroe Islands. HATZOFEH 1. Two terrorists killed as they try to plant bomb on security fence next to Nahal Oz. CAIRO TALKS DEADLOCKED: NO AGREEMENT ON FULL CEASEFIRE. Hamas and Islamic Jihad prepared only to halt killing of Israelis inside Green Line but not in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Today: Weisglass to meet Director of Abu Alas office for second time in order to agree on meeting with Sharon – apparently this week. Powell meets with initiators of Geneva understandings – Nablus demonstrators burn effigies of Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abed Rabbo. 2. KUWAITI NEWSPAPER: MOFAZ CANCELLED ISRAELI ATTACK ON SYRIA AND LEBANON AT LAST MINUTE. 3. PROGRESS IN PERETZ-NETANYAHU MEETING – SIDES REPORT POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE. As of today: Partial strike at religious councils throughout country. Sanctions also in postal services. Chief-of-Staff reiterates: Cut in Defense Ministry budget unrealistic and will have severe consequences for security. MAARIV 1. Concern: UN will transfer dealing with security fence to Hague court. OLMERT PLAN: EVACUATION OF 40,000 SETTLERS. According to diplomatic sources. Storm on right following governments leftward lunge: If this is serious, we wont stay. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. HAMAS AND JIHAD: WITHOUT ATTACKS INSIDE ISRAEL. Terrorist organizations ready to halt attacks in territories too – in exchange for halt to eliminations. Israel: We will continue to eliminate ticking bombs. Today: Attempt to set Sharon-Abu Ala meeting. 2. STORM IN WAKE OF OLMERT INTERVIEW. Disagreement within Likud over Olmerts call in Yediot Ahronot for unilateral withdrawal from most of territories. __________________________ Hatzofeh comments on Prime Minister Sharon’s plans for a unilateral withdrawal and says that he is spitting on the Likud party platform time and again. The editors point out that although Prime Minister Sharon was not elected in personal elections…He was elected as a Likud representative, whose platform negates a Palestinian state, and all other steps he is taking. Yediot Ahronot notes that Ehud Olmert stole the limelight from Beilin and his friends in Geneva over the weekend when he called for an Israeli withdrawal from the majority of the territories. The editors believe that the Likud must reevaluate its manifesto and, define itself through what it can do and not only by saying what it cant do. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, recommends that Israelis should become familiar with the various maps and the actual geographical areas that are being disputed and says that a nation cannot seriously discuss its final borders without a proper understanding of the territories being discussed.
