SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS HA’ARETZ 1. RIGHT DECIDES: INSTEAD OF MARCH, INFILTRATION INTO GUSH KATIF. Knesset – Large majority of MKs rejects disengagement postponement law; Sharon: True expression of democracy. US – Secy. of State Rice to arrive this evening for 2-day visit to Israel and PA and will be guest at Shikmim farm for first time. PA – Dahlan admits that Hamas is stronger in Gaza but defends PA: Even Gen. Montgomery couldn’t do better. 2. IDF and the disengagement. HALUTZ: REFUSER CANNOT SERVE IN COMBAT ROLE. 3. RUSSIA DOESN’T LET UP ON OLIGARCH NEVZLIN: CLAIMS HE WAS INVOLVED IN TEN MURDERS. HATZOFEH 1. Orange success – Until midnight, approximately 150,000 people attended orange demonstrations in south. EFFORT TO CALM MOODS. Tens of thousands of demonstrators against racist transfer remain in Kfar Maimon despite reports that many have apparently left. Yesterday: Tens of thousands began to march toward Kfar Maimon gate. Unprecedented number of security force personnel surrounded moshav. Knesset rejects proposal to postpone racist transfer. IDF decides to try officer who refused order. Yesha Council not giving in: We will reach Gush Katif. MA’ARIV 1. GOING HOME. Senior police commanders and Yesha Council leaders held nighttime talks on compromise at Kfar Maimon but thousands had already packed up and left for home. YEDIOT AHRONOT 1. Folding up: Hundreds of families left Kfar Maimon last night. GOING HOME. After three wearying days in heat, dust and without facilities, disengagement opponents began to leave Kfar Maimon and go home. Yesha leaders: Core of activists will stay and we’ll be back next week with refreshed forces. Police breathe sigh of relief and prepare to thin out ranks: „We avoided major confrontation.” IDF hastening to release from service companies of yeshiva students. ______________________________ Yediot Ahronot fears that, „The old warning of those who oppose the occupation is being realized before our eyes – the settler state is becoming powerful and when push comes to shove, will rebel against the State of Israel,” and likens the settlers’ relationship with the state to that of the militant French colonists in Algeria with DeGaulle’s regime in France. Hatzofeh strongly doubts that Attorney-General Meni Mazuz will insist that MK Omri Sharon serve any time in prison as part of a plea-bargain and claims that the Supreme Court is biased in favor of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s agenda. BPI-info