HAARETZ 1. SHARON TO TELL CONFERENCE: GIVE ME CONFIDENCE, I WILL ACT ACCORDING TO [GOVERNMENT] POLICY GUIDELINES. Concern in Sharon camp: Sweeping opposition to bringing in Labor will affect how MKs vote in Knesset; assessment in Likud: Close battle. 2. CONSTRUCTION MOMENTUM IN GUSH KATIF: HUNDREDS OF HOTHOUSES BUILT ON DOZENS OF DUNAMS. 3. REGRETS IN NIRIT: THEY DONT WANT NEIGHBORHOOD FROM ALFEI MENASHE. Construction begun of neighborhood – east of Green Line – adjacent to Nirit. 4. Athens 2004: QUIET SUCCESS FOR TENNIS IN SEA OF FAILURES. 5. CIPELS ATTORNEY: HE IS NOT A FUGITIVE. Former adviser of New Jersey Governor, who claimed that latter sexually harassed him, arrives in Israel. Cipel: I came to gather strength together with my family. HATZOFEH 1. Hysteria around Prime Minister ahead of Likud conference today. SHARON UNDER PRESSURE. Likud conference convening to discuss possibility of Labor Party joining government. PMs supporters in last minute efforts to mobilize conference participants to support Sharon. Assessment in Likud: PM will not have majority for his decision. Gush Katif and Yesha residents to form human chain – under slogan We have love and it will win. Gush Katif and Samaria – outside hall.
2. CHIEF-OF-STAFF ASSESSES: DISENGAGEMENT WILL COST NIS 1.5 BILLION. 3. BASI TOURS COMMUNITIES SLATED FOR EVACUATION – NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER SA-NUR. 4. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCES: WE WILL HAND DOWN VERDICT TOMORROW IN GREEK ISLAND AFFAIR. MAARIV 1. PMs trick: Question that outflanks rebels. SHARON: WE WILL SEE THEM. In attempt to prevent defeat, PM will ask conference: do you support negotiations with all Zionist parties, on basis of Governments policy guidelines? Sharon: They will not be able to refuse this. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Struggle at peak: PM vs. rebels. BATTLE DAY IN LIKUD. This evening: Vote on bringing in Labor. Sharon to raise compromise proposal that members will find it hard to refuse: We will negotiate with all Zionist parties. Concern in Likud: There will be great uproar. 2. AFTER MIDNIGHT: FOUR KILLED IN GAZA ELIMINATION ATTEMPT. Elimination target, responsible for Kassam fire, only wounded. Kassam discovered in Nablus for first time yesterday. 3. BARGHOUTI BREAKS STRIKE. Security prisoners leader filmed eating in secret. ______________________________ SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS Yediot Ahronot likens Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to a cyclist: If he stops, what happens to every cyclist will happen to him – hell fall. The editors suggest that, Sharon has long since passed the point of no return , and note that, Everyone who knows Sharon claims that he is determined in his decision to implement the disengagement plan, and that 1,000 roars, howls and ballots at party votes, will not stop him. The paper believes that Prime Minister Sharon has jettisoned long-standing ideological tenets and reminds its readers that as recently as the 1970s, only the Israeli Communist Party embraced a two-state solution. Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, says that both Labor and Likud are witnessing unprecedented ideological unrest in the wake of Prime Minister Sharons, historic move, and suggests that, Today, part of the Likud is closer to Labor than it is to other party members – and vice-versa, in Labor as well. We are witnessing of splits and new political clashes. The editors believe that there will be early elections. Hatzofeh dismisses Prime Minister Ariel Sharons latest initiative to construct housing units in Judea and Samaria as, a trick, ahead of this evenings Likud conference and asserts that, Mr. Prime Minister, nobody believes you anymore. BPI-info
