Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press

Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh believes that the Finance Ministry could have averted last week’s „completely unnecessary,” one-day public sector strike if it had been ready to compromise sooner.

Yediot Aharonot laments that „It seems that we have lost the desire to understand the Arab and Islamic worlds,” and regrets that „We know very little about politics and daily life in the world around us and are raising the next generation of statesmen, intelligence personnel and journalists on a diet of Farfur the mouse and Nahoul the bee.”

Ma’ariv suggests that President Shimon Peres could help rebuild and redefine the Presidency by reaching out to, „the entire Jewish People, from all streams and all communities.”

Haaretz discusses the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, and claims that everyone in Israel already knows the solution: „Anyone with eyes in his head knows the land will be divided between the Israelis and the Palestinians, along borders similar to the pre-1967 lines.”

The Jerusalem Post declares that it is the moderate Arab states who should be leading the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. Claiming that the Arab states have been unwilling to lead the Palestinians toward peace with Israel, the editor asserts that „the West should be pushing all the Arab states, not just Egypt and Jordan, to begin normalizing relations with Israel and to abandon positions inconsistent with Israel’s right to exist. It should go without saying that the West itself should be unabashedly rejecting such positions as well.”
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