HEADLINES & EDITORIALS 10 May 2004 HAARETZ 1. NETANYAHU AGAINST SHARON: YOU CANT CHANGE A PLAN LIKE YOU CHANGE YOUR SOCKS. PM: Alternative unilateral plan within three weeks; cancels US trip. 2. THREE ACCUSED IN SHAICHAT MURDER RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST. They threatened us that they would demolish our parents homes, they said after they confessed and sat in prison for 10 months. HATZOFEH 1. PM SHARON: NEW DIPLOMATIC PLAN WITHIN THREE WEEKS. Netanyahu: A diplomatic plan is not a pair of socks you can change everyday. Mofaz: Gaza settlements are an historical mistake. 2. SHOTS FIRED AT PARTICIPANTS IN MEMORIAL CEREMONY FOR HATUEL FAMILY. Hundreds of people took part in memorial service for Tali Hatuel and her daughters at the place on the Kisufim route where they were murdered. Immediately after the service ended shots were fired at the participants. 3. THREE ACCUSED OF MURDER OF OLEG SHAICHAT RELEASED. 4. ARAB KADAN FAMILY CAN BUILD HOME IN KATZIR. MAARIV 1. KISUFIM, ONE WEEK LATER. At exactly the same place where Tali Hatuel and her four daughters were murdered, terrorists opened fire on hundreds of residents, who were attending in a memorial service for them. Women risked their lives to protect their babies, children ran away screaming. After the terrorists were eliminated it became apparent that they had dressed up as women. 2. IMPRISONED UNJUSTLY. 10 months ago, the police proudly announced: We solved murder of soldier Oleg Shaichat. Three youths from Kafr Kana were accused of cruel abduction, and one of them reenacted the events. Yesterday, following dramatic developments that are still banned for publication, the three left prison. Police: Evidence was solid. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Children under fire. FEAR IN THEIR EYES. I screamed to my son to lay on his two-year-old sister in order to protect her. Every time I heard shots I looked at the children, to see that they were still alive. Drama in Gush-Katif: Thus a memorial service turned into a battleground. (
). 2. NETANYAHU: POLICY IS NOT SOCKS. Sharon: I will present a new plan within three weeks. 3. Sorry, we made a mistake: Soldiers murderers released THEY FALSIFIED CASE AGAINST US. Only now, after 10 months of imprisonment, did the state decide that the three youths were not responsible for the abduction and murder of Oleg Shaichat. The difficult question: How did they make the main suspect confess to a murder he did not commit? ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot believes that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon postponed his scheduled trip to the US for talks with US President George Bush, because both sides will profit by the absence of the meeting, and suggests that, It is hard to believe how everything went wrong for Sharon and Bush within a few weeks, from the time when they needed each other to when they mainly need not to be in each others company. The editors assert that, The two of them, who only a few weeks ago were self-confidently basking in the ratings and seemed as those who were about to fashion a new international agenda, suddenly find themselves like lame ducks, with the only assistance they are capable of offering the other at the moment is to avoid a public meeting.
Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, ventures that unless Prime Minister Sharons supporters within the Likud can find a way to cooperate with Shinui, Labor and other parties in order to advance the disengagement plan, it is doubtful whether the large public support for the plan will produce anything tangible. Hatzofeh analyzes the situation on the northern border and complains that, Hezbollah is not concerned by the IDFs reactions because it knows that they will be small in any case. The editors believe that, The longer that Israel does not take a risk in eliminating Hezbollah and its arsenal, it leaves a very dangerous front open for directives that will come – sooner rather than later – from Iran or Syria, and call on the IDF, to close accounts with Nasrallah before it is too late. BPI
