28.03.2004 HAARETZ 1. THIS WEEK: [STATE PROSECUTOR EDNA] ARBEL TO RECOMMEND INDICTING SHARON OVER GREEK ISLANDS AFFAIR. Team headed by Arbel formed unified recommendation. Recommendation to be submitted to Attorney General [Meni Mazuz], who will make final decision. Mazuz in private conversations: I will charge only if Im sure of guilt. State Prosecutor: Impossible that Sharon did not know about Appel-Gilad connections. Case against Minister Olmert closed. Sharons attorney: Unfair media manipulation. Ginaton affair convinced State Prosecutor to indict.
2. HEZBOLLAH FINANCED ASHDOD PORT TERROR ATTACK AND HELPED CHOOSE TARGET. 3. OPPOSITE HEZBOLLAH INVOLVEMENT: ARAFAT FINANCING FATAH MILITARY ACTIVISTS. 4. THIS WEEK: TENNENBAUM TO BE RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST. Will stay at sisters house, with similar restrictions to those in police custody. 5. PALESTINIAN FIRED AT IDF FORCES IN NABLUS – 7 YEAR OLD BOY KILLED. Unit commander: he was killed by Palestinian fire; Palestinian sources: soldiers shot him. 6. FINAL: SHARON-BUSH MEETING ON APRIL 14. Sources: Major progress in discussions with US; Mubarak and Abdallah also to meet with Bush. 7. ARAB SUMMIT POSTPONED DUE TO DISAGREEMENT ON LEAGUE – AND ON YASSIN. At end of arguments over elimination and reforms, summit planned for tomorrow, postponed. HATZOFEH 1. At same time as announcement on American agreement to meeting with Prime Minister, Channel 2 proclaims: ARBEL: INDICT SHARON. According to statements, State Prosecutor expected to submit recommendations to Attorney General today. Recommendation is to try Prime Minister over Greek island affair, on suspicion that he received apparent bribes from businessman David Appel. Case against Minister Ehud Olmert expected to be closed due to lack of evidence. Sharons Bureau refused to respond to information and senior Likud members are also waiting for State Prosecutor to give decision. Left calling on Sharon to resign. MK Dalia Itzik: If this is true we are talking about a sad day for citizens of the State and for the Prime Minister. American administration invites Sharon to meet with George Bush in April. 2. TENNENBAUM TO BE RELEASED THIS WEEK TO HOUSE ARREST. MAARIV 1. Arbels draft: State of Israel against Ariel Sharon. STATE PROSECUTOR: INDICT. The recommendation to try him – over Greek island affair. 2. US REJECTS MOST OF ISRAELS PROPOSALS. Sharon-Bush meeting after [Passover] holiday. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. (
). TWO HOURS BEFORE DEATH. (
). 2. ARBEL TO RECOMMEND: TRY SHARON. Greek island affair: State Prosecutor to submit draft of charges against PM. Will recommend indicting Gilad Sharon as well. Final decision with Attorney General. Sharons aides: No evidence. 3. TODAY: SEVERE REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE PERFORMANCE. 4. TENNENBAUM EXPECTED TO BE RELEASED THIS WEEK. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot asserts that, The most frightening weapon in the Israeli-Palestinian war of consciousness is the children. The editors believe that, Israeli children who are killed in terrorist attacks are a horrifying reality, a senseless massacre, in which every attempted justification only attests to the justifiers distorted world, but suggest that, As far as Palestinian children are concerned, the picture is distorted, unclear and subject to manipulation by both sides. The paper refers to the Israeli effort to focus attention on the two recent attempts by Palestinian terrorists to use children to perpetrate bomb attacks but caution that, A 10-year-old child who earns a living by carrying packages through roadblocks for people in exchange for NIS 5 per package, expresses a reality no less harsh than a child whose innocent appearance is exploited by others in order to move explosive belts. The editors aver that, Day by day, child by child, the mutual, hate-filled view of the two peoples gripped in this tribal war justifies itself. Hatzofeh notes that Trade, Industry and Employment Minister Ehud Olmert recently called for, the implementation of the disengagement plan even if Israels demands vis-a-vis the US are not accepted. The editors strongly attack Minister Olmerts record as Mayor of Jerusalem and says that, in effect, he and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are declaring: You dont want to give anything in exchange? Thats not necessary
we will determinedly run away from Hamas, proudly humiliate ourselves and courageously give everything away without getting anything in return. BPI.
