HAARETZ 1. SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT: ISRAELI SATELLITE WILL PHOTOGRAPH TERRITORIES IN ORDER TO DOCUMENT SETTLEMENTS. Reason: Authorities not succeeding in collecting enough information on construction. 2. Haaretz report: Outpost plan. ONE OUTPOST AND ANOTHER – THUS CONTIGUOUS BLOC OF JEWISH SETTLEMENT IS CREATED ON WEST BANK. 3. RARE STEP: LEFT WING ACTIVIST TALI FAHIMA PLACED UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION. 4. IN WAKE OF COMPTROLLERS REPORT, NEW COMPLAINTS OF POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS. HATZOFEH 1. (
). BURYING THE CHILDREN. (
). Sharon sends condolences to Putin. Two agree on future security, intelligence and humanitarian cooperation. Putin: Appreciate Israeli determination in war on terrorism. Minister Orlev: Security at our educational institutions must be checked. 2. HAMAS LEADERSHIP FLEES DAMASCUS OUT OF CONCERN THAT ISRAEL WILL TAKE REVENGE ON THEM. 3. LEFT WING ACTIVIST TALI FAHIMA PLACED UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION. 4. CIVIL SERVANTS STRIKE PLANNED FOR TODAY FROZEN. MAARIV 1. Mole affair: Intelligence sources received information from Pentagon official. IDF INTELLIGENCE CORPS REPRESENTATIVE MET WITH FRANKLIN. Diplomatic sources: Representative is intelligence attach? in Washington. Activity was also known to OC Intelligence. 2. CITY WITHOUT CHILDREN. (
). Sharon calls to console Putin. Assessment in Jerusalem: Wave of Chechen terrorism threatens Moscow regime. 3. CONCERN IN SYRIA: SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIALS FLED TO GULF. 4. OC PERSONNEL: POST HAREDIM AT FRONT ALSO. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. (
). RUSSIA WEEPS. (
). Israeli aid: Russia considering sending wounded students and shock victims for convalescence in Israel. 2. INCREASE SECURITY AT SCHOOLS IN COUNTRY, say mayors and heads of parents organizations. Senior police officials: Impossible to station anti-terrorism unit at every educational institution.
______________________________ Both papers comment on various issues related to the terrorist massacre in southern Russia: Yediot Ahronot says that, If it werent for the of the Russian army, the Chechen freedom fighters would have eliminated all of the hostages – children, women, infants – without any regret, and declares that, This was the goal of their action: Merciless slaughter and not national liberation. The Russian military intervention enabled hundreds of human beings to be saved. Perhaps it could have saved more, perhaps less. It is difficult to judge; it is better not to judge. Hatzofeh avers that, The free and sane world must excoriate the European Union for its request to receive explanations from Russia over the bloody end of the catastrophic kidnapping at the Ossetian school, and says that, President Putin deserves all financial and moral backing for not capitulating to terrorism of any kind. The editors believe that, Lebanon s solidarity with Russias disaster was pathetic given that the former gives sanctuary to a dangerous terrorist organization that recognizes no human or moral values. __________ Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, comments on the Pentagon mole affair in the US and suggests that it now seems like a case of, smoke with a little fire. The editors remark that, As the days pass, not only is the Israeli mole affair not dying but reports of its deepening are becoming more numerous. The paper asserts that, True, the reports are not being accompanied by actions and the leaks are not based on attributable quotes but the current American administration is considered unprecedentedly friendly to Israel and its silence in the affair speaks volumes. Yediot Ahronot, in its third editorial, discusses the sale of the Histadrut s veteran pension funds to private ownership groups. BPI-info
