SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. GOVERNMENT: RESUME MUGRABI EXCAVATIONS.
Works were halted in June after international pressure. Resumption decision frozen in October. According to new Government decision, Antiquities Authority must finish excavations „in shortest possible time.”
2. Weapons smuggling into Gaza.
US CONSIDERING ASSISTING EGYPT IN BUILDING OBSTACLE TO TUNNELS INTO GAZA STRIP.
MA’ARIV
1. Criticism in security establishment regarding contacts with US.
„ISA DIRECTOR INCAPABLE OF CONVINCING AMERICANS.”
Contacts with US intelligence deepening in wake of report on Iran. But senior security establishment officials warn: „Dagan does not excel in persuasion and diplomatic contacts.”
2. NEW TESTIMONY: „I SAW GILAD WOUNDED.”
Palestinian who saw abduction: „He was disoriented.”
3. STOCK MARKET NOSEDIVES: 3% DROP.
Follows CPI publication: Sharp declines.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Last night: Olmert and Barak approved upgrading of IDF „bank of targets” against Hamas.
KASSAM PRICE LIST.
Green light to IDF to intensify reto firing from Gaza: Hamas command post or institution to be blown up for every Israeli house that is hit.
2. State Prosecutor’s Office offers neo-Nazis:
LIGHT PUNISHMENT – IN EXCHANGE FOR DEPORTATION.
Exceptional plea bargain for members of neo-Nazi gang.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot calls on the Government to proceed immediately with the reinforcement of structures in Sderot and the area around the Gaza Strip. The editors aver that, „The reinforcement will also improve the security of residents of Sderot and the area around the Gaza Strip if – when? – we go into Gaza because it will provide the IDF and the Government with greater freedom of action.”
Ma’ariv says that Israel has been extraordinarily lucky that a Kassam rocket has not hit – for example – a kindergarten in Sderot and caused numerous fatalities, and claims that, „Luck is what is still allowing the State of Israel to wait, to be patient and to not use major force.” The editors assert that, „the main Israeli dilemma,” is whether to continue small-scale military operations against Hamas or embark on large-scale military action, similar to 2002’s „Defensive Shield” operation in Judea and Samaria. However, the paper declares that, „Two events will put an end to the Israeli dilemma and junk all considerations of restraint: One, when the luck runs out. The second, when more accurate, longer-range Kassams, with stronger warheads, will start to fall on Ashkelon and Kiryat Gat. It is uncertain which will come first.”
BreuerPress
1. GOVERNMENT: RESUME MUGRABI EXCAVATIONS.
Works were halted in June after international pressure. Resumption decision frozen in October. According to new Government decision, Antiquities Authority must finish excavations „in shortest possible time.”
2. Weapons smuggling into Gaza.
US CONSIDERING ASSISTING EGYPT IN BUILDING OBSTACLE TO TUNNELS INTO GAZA STRIP.
MA’ARIV
1. Criticism in security establishment regarding contacts with US.
„ISA DIRECTOR INCAPABLE OF CONVINCING AMERICANS.”
Contacts with US intelligence deepening in wake of report on Iran. But senior security establishment officials warn: „Dagan does not excel in persuasion and diplomatic contacts.”
2. NEW TESTIMONY: „I SAW GILAD WOUNDED.”
Palestinian who saw abduction: „He was disoriented.”
3. STOCK MARKET NOSEDIVES: 3% DROP.
Follows CPI publication: Sharp declines.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Last night: Olmert and Barak approved upgrading of IDF „bank of targets” against Hamas.
KASSAM PRICE LIST.
Green light to IDF to intensify reto firing from Gaza: Hamas command post or institution to be blown up for every Israeli house that is hit.
2. State Prosecutor’s Office offers neo-Nazis:
LIGHT PUNISHMENT – IN EXCHANGE FOR DEPORTATION.
Exceptional plea bargain for members of neo-Nazi gang.
______________________________
SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot calls on the Government to proceed immediately with the reinforcement of structures in Sderot and the area around the Gaza Strip. The editors aver that, „The reinforcement will also improve the security of residents of Sderot and the area around the Gaza Strip if – when? – we go into Gaza because it will provide the IDF and the Government with greater freedom of action.”
Ma’ariv says that Israel has been extraordinarily lucky that a Kassam rocket has not hit – for example – a kindergarten in Sderot and caused numerous fatalities, and claims that, „Luck is what is still allowing the State of Israel to wait, to be patient and to not use major force.” The editors assert that, „the main Israeli dilemma,” is whether to continue small-scale military operations against Hamas or embark on large-scale military action, similar to 2002’s „Defensive Shield” operation in Judea and Samaria. However, the paper declares that, „Two events will put an end to the Israeli dilemma and junk all considerations of restraint: One, when the luck runs out. The second, when more accurate, longer-range Kassams, with stronger warheads, will start to fall on Ashkelon and Kiryat Gat. It is uncertain which will come first.”
BreuerPress
