8.2.2004 HAARETZ 1. FENCE ROUTE TO BE SHIFTED TOWARD GREEN LINE; ENCLAVES TO BE CANCELLED. 2. IDF ELIMINATES SENIOR JIHAD TERRORIST AND KILLS BOY AS WELL; ORGANIZATION: WE WILL TAKE REVENGE. 3. SHARON AND MOFAZ AGREE: [OC AIR FORCE MAJ.-GEN. DAN] HALOUTZ TO BE DEPUTY CHIEF-OF-STAFF. HATZOFEH 1. Air Force helicopter eliminates senior Islamic Jihad terrorist in Gaza. HIS COMRADES THREATEN: WE WILL TAKE REVENGE ON ISRAEL. Eliminated terrorist, Aziz Shami, was responsible for murders of 25 soldiers. In recent days, he had been preparing another major attack. Abu Ala: Israel doing everything to wreck process and split Palestinian society. 2. PM talks with UN Secy.-Gen. ANNAN: AFTER ISRAEL WITHDRAWS FROM GAZA, IT WILL HAVE TO WITHDRAW FROM WEST BANK AS WELL. Sharon also spoke with Jordanian monarch in effort to defuse tension between two countries. 3. HUNDREDS OF YESHA RESIDENTS DEMONSTRATE OPPOSITE SHARONS HOME AT SHIKMIM FARM. MAARIV 1. Staff work ahead of Gaza Strip withdrawal referendum begun. WE WILL DESTROY EVERY HOME AND GREENHOUSE AHEAD OF WITHDRAWAL. We wont leave a stone standing, according to Sharon confidant. MK Tibi: Leave settlements for refugees. 2. ARAFAT RELEASED HIM, ISRAEL ELIMINATED HIM. Eliminated man, Aziz Shami, was relative of Jihad Gaza leader and was involved in Beit Lid attack.
3. MINISTER ELON: TURN MUSLIMS INTO CHRISTIANS. Tourism Minister asked American missionaries: Go from mosque to mosque and bring light to Muslim murderers. 4. WOMAN SOLDIER WORKED AS PROSTITUTE IN ORDER TO SAVE HER BROTHERS. Shira, 19-year-old soldier, arrived directly from base to escort agency. I have no choice, she says, is it better to die of hunger? YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. ISRAEL WILL NOT DESTROY EVACUATED SETTLEMENTS. – in contrast to Yamit evacuation. Plan: Palestinian refugees will be able to settle in remaining homes. Attack alert following elimination of senior Islamic Jihad terrorist yesterday in Gaza. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot comments on yesterdays elimination of senior Islamic Jihad terrorist Aziz Shami in Gaza and says that, In any case, only a few of us (and a few Palestinians, since desperation, exhaustion and a lust for revenge have their exact parallels on the other side) believe that this or that action, or avoidance of action, will indeed change something. The editors add: Few indeed think that there is a link between killing nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the bus attack that followed it, or between that attack and yesterdays elimination, or between anything and anything. All we know for certain is that blood will follow blood, and that we have stopped asking why. Hatzofeh claims that, Ariel Sharon declares time and again that nothing can be done because reality has changed, and asserts that, He should explain what exactly has changed since he declared a few months ago that Netzarims fate is like Tel Avivs and that evacuating Kfar Darom was inconceivable. The editors add: Yes, Mr. Sharon, what exactly has changed since you said those things just a few months ago? Investigations? An impending indictment? Hatzofeh, in its second editorial, accuses Prime Minister Sharons Bureau of disingenuousness in declaring that, There will be no Jews in Gaza, and reminds its readers that, There are no Jews in Gaza. The editors note that Prime Minister Sharon has said that, Gaza will be clean of Jews, and remark that, The truth is that even today such phrases sound much better in German.
