12 Aug 2004 HAARETZ 1. SIX BORDER POLICE OFFICERS WOUNDED AND TWO PALESTINIANS KILLED IN NORTHERN JERUSALEM TERRORIST ATTACK. Assessment: Terrorists were en route to perpetrate attack in Jerusalem. High alert in city continuing due to concern regarding terrorists. Tanzim military wing takes responsibility. Warning about terrorist received 30 minutes before blast. Palestinian from Samaria suspected of involvement in attack. 2. Attack at Kalandiyah. FENCE AND ROADBLOCKS KEPT TERRORIST AWAY FROM HEART OF JERUSALEM. 3. ADDITIONAL SHIHAB-3 TEST IN IRAN. 4. SHARON DECIDES: SECURITY BUDGET WILL BE CUT. In Finance Ministry and security establishment assessment, cut will amount to NIS 1 billion. HATZOFEH 1. Six Border Police officers wounded and two Palestinians killed in bomb explosion at Kalandiyah checkpoint. THEY STOPPED IT WITH THEIR BODIES. Yesterday: Suicide terrorist intended to perpetrate major attack in city center in Israel. Short time before he reached northern Jerusalem, ISA received intelligence warning, and hundreds of police and soldiers were deployed in area. When terrorist saw deployment, he left bomb in bag by the roadside, close to emergency checkpoint. As Border Police officers approached bag, he detonated bomb by remote control. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades takes responsibility for attack. Kassam rocket landed near Negev kindergarten.
2. SHINUIS MOMENT OF TRUTH. Today: Movement will decide whether to support being in government with haredim. Poraz: Huge difference between them and us. 3. DEMOGRAPHIC JUMP DESPITE EVERYTHING. Almost 4% growth in Jewish population of Gush Katif. 4. MACCABI HAIFA LOSES 2-1 TO ROSENBORG, BUT IS LEFT WITH PRECIOUS AWAY GOAL AHEAD OF RETURN MATCH. 5. CELEBRATION IN HEBRON: 1,000 FRENCH JEWISH TOURISTS CAME TO EXPRESS SUPPORT. MAARIV 1. Defense Minister sharply attacks Finance Ministry. MOFAZ TO NETANYAHU: YOURE SMART AT EXPENSE OF THE WEAK. During stormy discussion of security cut, Mofaz told Netanyahu: Your expertise is in hurting soldiers. 2. SOLDIERS FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES. Two Palestinians killed and six Border Police officers wounded when suicide terrorist blew up at emergency roadblock not far from entrance to Jerusalem. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. MOFAZ AGAINST NETANYAHU: YOURE AN EXPERT IN HURTING THE WEAK. DM demands supplement for education. Netanyahus people: Attack was ridiculous, he simply wants more money for security. In political negotiations: Labor getting closer, Shinui getting further away. Sharon offers Silvan Shalom expanded Interior portfolio. 2. FIGHTERS HEROISM. Three Border Police officers seriously wounded yesterday by bomb at Kalandiyah checkpoint. Police officers stopped major attack with their bodies; terrorists apparently planned to perpetrate attack in Jerusalem. 3. LOGOL SCANDAL. Outrage in Dimona: Anti-radiation pills that were distributed intentionally lack expiry date. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot believes that, While it is erroneous to claim that it is possible to defeat terrorism by military means alone, as sophisticated as they may be, it is no less erroneous to claim that it is possible to overcome Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists by means of a civil dialogue with them. Fanatic extremist movements whose raison detre is to sow violence will not give it up without a fight. When they will be required to give it up when military pressure burns the ground under their feet when the local population vomits them out. This day is closer than it seems. With the outbreak of the second intifada, many experts prophesied Israels failure in the conflict with terror. They were wrong. Israels security establishment has defeated terror in the following sense: It is now providing the political leadership with prolonged respites from terror. The politicians need to fill this quality time – which is occasionally marred by attempted terrorist attacks and terrorist attacks, such as occurred yesterday – with measures designed to achieve a settlement with the Palestinian population, the same population for whom the burden of terrorism is heavy, and which is ready for reconciliation and compromise. And today, it is the majority, the decisive majority. Hatzofeh accuse French authorities of sufficing with rhetoric only in the struggle against anti-Semitism and says that the French Jewish community would do well to organize in self-defense and to attempt to apprehend the perpetrators of anti-Semitic acts. The editors assert that, The immigration of Jewish families to Israel from France or any other Diaspora is desirable but not before all the anti-Semitic groupings pay heavily for their actions, and call on the government to press the French government and police to take much stronger action. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, refers to Tuesdays tragedy in Rehovot in which two young boys, who were playing with matches, burned to death in an illegally built, derelict shed. The editors fault local authorities for not moving more vigorously to deal with illegal construction and to demolish illegally built structures. BPI-info
