2003-03-09
1. SHARON SUMMONS CHIEF-OF-STAFF FOR CLARIFICATION MEETING FOLLOWING LATTER S REMARKS ON DISENGAGEMENT; HIS BUREAU: NO REPRIMAND.
2. Politics: Where is the red line?
MORE AND MORE COMPLAINTS IN SHINUI OVER SHARON GOVERNMENT.
3. FOREIGN SUICIDE TERRORISTS, IN NAME OF ISLAM.
Year after Mikes Place, Hamas takes responsibility and sets precedent: Pan-Islamic attack.
4. AFTER NINE FRUITLESS YEARS: HAPOEL TEL AVIV DEFEATS MACCABI [TEL AVIV].
HATZOFEH
1. Tension between Sharon and Yaalon against of latters remarks on disengagement plan.
SHARON: CHIEF-OF-STAFF TRYING TO INFLUENCE POLITICAL MATTERS.
PM intends to summon Chief-of-Staff for pointed conversation. ISA Director Avi Dichter, visiting in Washington, expresses reservations there over disengagement plan. ( ).
Sharon to convene security cabinet and Likud ministers in order to discuss plan. Mubarak: Egypt has no intention of taking part in disengagement plan; this could lead to confrontation between us and Palestinians and Israel.
2. HAMAS TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR MIKES PLACE ATTACK.
3. UPROOTING SETTLEMENT IN GAZA STRIP TO ECONOMICALLY HURT 30,000 PALESTINIANS.
4. PURIM IN JERUSALEM: DRUNKEN HAREDIM BEAT ARAB DRIVERS AND POLICEMEN.
MAARIV
1. Chief-of-Staff learned from television that he had been summoned for clarification.
ON-AIR REPRIMAND.
In middle of theatre presentation, [Chief-of-Staff] Yaalon learned for first time that there was a rift between him and PM. Chief-of-Staff caused severe damage, PM Sharon was quoted as saying, during Channel 2 news show – and generals hastened to update surprised Yaalon.
2. IN KNESSET: ARABS MARKED WITH X.
Helmets of Arab workers marked with red X in order to distinguish them from foreign workers. Reason: Make things easier for sniper in guard tower.
3. RED TEL AVIV.
Upheaval in Israeli basketball: Hapoel Tel Aviv defeats Maccabi Tel Aviv 96-71.
YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. FOREIGN HIT MEN IN CRIMINALS SERVICE.
Underworld concerns: European hit men to arrive in country in order to close accounts. ( ).
2. CHIEF-OF-STAFF TO SHARON: WHAT IS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?
Yaalon called PM last night following reports that his remarks on disengagement plan angered PM.
3. TENNENBAUM PROTOCOL.
Expos?: Report Sharon received about murderous blows and pulling of teeth.
4. SOLDIERS MUTINY IN GOLANI BRIGADE.
14 soldiers punished by confinement got angry – and left base.
1. SHARON SUMMONS CHIEF-OF-STAFF FOR CLARIFICATION MEETING FOLLOWING LATTER S REMARKS ON DISENGAGEMENT; HIS BUREAU: NO REPRIMAND.
2. Politics: Where is the red line?
MORE AND MORE COMPLAINTS IN SHINUI OVER SHARON GOVERNMENT.
3. FOREIGN SUICIDE TERRORISTS, IN NAME OF ISLAM.
Year after Mikes Place, Hamas takes responsibility and sets precedent: Pan-Islamic attack.
4. AFTER NINE FRUITLESS YEARS: HAPOEL TEL AVIV DEFEATS MACCABI [TEL AVIV].
HATZOFEH
1. Tension between Sharon and Yaalon against of latters remarks on disengagement plan.
SHARON: CHIEF-OF-STAFF TRYING TO INFLUENCE POLITICAL MATTERS.
PM intends to summon Chief-of-Staff for pointed conversation. ISA Director Avi Dichter, visiting in Washington, expresses reservations there over disengagement plan. ( ).
Sharon to convene security cabinet and Likud ministers in order to discuss plan. Mubarak: Egypt has no intention of taking part in disengagement plan; this could lead to confrontation between us and Palestinians and Israel.
2. HAMAS TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR MIKES PLACE ATTACK.
3. UPROOTING SETTLEMENT IN GAZA STRIP TO ECONOMICALLY HURT 30,000 PALESTINIANS.
4. PURIM IN JERUSALEM: DRUNKEN HAREDIM BEAT ARAB DRIVERS AND POLICEMEN.
MAARIV
1. Chief-of-Staff learned from television that he had been summoned for clarification.
ON-AIR REPRIMAND.
In middle of theatre presentation, [Chief-of-Staff] Yaalon learned for first time that there was a rift between him and PM. Chief-of-Staff caused severe damage, PM Sharon was quoted as saying, during Channel 2 news show – and generals hastened to update surprised Yaalon.
2. IN KNESSET: ARABS MARKED WITH X.
Helmets of Arab workers marked with red X in order to distinguish them from foreign workers. Reason: Make things easier for sniper in guard tower.
3. RED TEL AVIV.
Upheaval in Israeli basketball: Hapoel Tel Aviv defeats Maccabi Tel Aviv 96-71.
YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. FOREIGN HIT MEN IN CRIMINALS SERVICE.
Underworld concerns: European hit men to arrive in country in order to close accounts. ( ).
2. CHIEF-OF-STAFF TO SHARON: WHAT IS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?
Yaalon called PM last night following reports that his remarks on disengagement plan angered PM.
3. TENNENBAUM PROTOCOL.
Expos?: Report Sharon received about murderous blows and pulling of teeth.
4. SOLDIERS MUTINY IN GOLANI BRIGADE.
14 soldiers punished by confinement got angry – and left base.
SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot comments on Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalons recent remarks against a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The editors consider whether such comments are beyond the Chief-of-Staffs purview and argue that while Prime Minister Sharon is entitled to hold such a view, this is only when the political echelon is carrying out its tasks: to direct policy and give clear instructions. The paper points out that, Today, months after Sharon first announced his plan for unilateral withdrawal, the army is still unsure as to what the Prime Minister means.
He has no timetable, no final map. The editors argue that Prime Minister Sharon has managed to hide behind senior IDF officers comments, but that now that it has become inconvenient for him to do so, he is trying to make a clear distinction between the political and military echelon in which the military echelon will not be able to encroach on his territory.
Hatzofeh says that Egypts refusal to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of peace treaty with Israel shows that essentially there has been no change in the relationship between the two countries. BPI
Yediot Ahronot comments on Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalons recent remarks against a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The editors consider whether such comments are beyond the Chief-of-Staffs purview and argue that while Prime Minister Sharon is entitled to hold such a view, this is only when the political echelon is carrying out its tasks: to direct policy and give clear instructions. The paper points out that, Today, months after Sharon first announced his plan for unilateral withdrawal, the army is still unsure as to what the Prime Minister means.
He has no timetable, no final map. The editors argue that Prime Minister Sharon has managed to hide behind senior IDF officers comments, but that now that it has become inconvenient for him to do so, he is trying to make a clear distinction between the political and military echelon in which the military echelon will not be able to encroach on his territory.
Hatzofeh says that Egypts refusal to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the signing of peace treaty with Israel shows that essentially there has been no change in the relationship between the two countries. BPI
