HA’ARETZ
1. HOUSING MINISTRY PROMOTING ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW JEWISH NEIGHBORHOOD IN EAST JERUSALEM.
Planned neighborhood to be largest built by Israel in East Jerusalem, and will include over 10,000 residential units. Israel had previously promised US that it did not intend to move forward on neighborhood’s planning.
2. OPERATION BUSH: 8,000 POLICE OFFICERS TO SECURE PRESIDENT’S VISIT.
3. ARGENTINA’S PROSECUTOR GENERAL: IRANIAN LEADERS RESPONSIBLE FOR 1990’S ATTACKS.
4. NATIONAL SERVICE: TWICE AS MANY VOLUNTEERS FROM ARAB SECTOR.
Despite sector leaders’ opposition, about 600 have volunteered this year.
MA’ARIV
1. Phenomenon. Officers and combat soldiers admit:
EMBARRASSED TO WEAR WAR RIBBON.
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2. OLMERT: WE WILL CONTINUE ELIMINATIONS.
Prime Minister: „War being waged in south of country, and it is not one-sided.”
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Shell near IDF base north of Gaza Strip, five soldiers in shock.
OLMERT: WE WILL REACH ALL THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR KASSAM FIRE.
PM after elimination of twelve Jihad and Hamas terrorists: Pursuit of terrorists continuing at full force.
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Yediot Ahronot believes that peace between Israel and the Palestinians will come when both sides become sufficiently disgusted with the status quo and the endless attrition. Nevertheless, the editors call on Israel to wage an unrelenting struggle against the terrorist organizations on the one hand and to evacuate the outposts and uphold the Palestinians’ human rights on the other.
Ma’ariv discusses Meretz’s decline from the 12 Knesset it won in the 1999 elections to the five it won in the 2006 elections. The editors note that Meretz’s call for two states on the basis of the 1967 lines has gained widespread acceptance, thus, „largely neutralizing – to a large degree – Meretz’s uniqueness, as well as its ability to be a fighting opposition.” However, the paper says that, „All attempts to implement this policy vis-à-vis the Palestinians – from the Oslo accords, through the Beilin-Abu Mazen understandings, Barak’s offers to Arafat at Camp David, US presidents’ mediators and their plans and ending in Sharon’s disengagement – have failed in fire and blood.” The editors add that, „These painful and bleeding failures have distanced – and are distancing – voters from Meretz.”
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