HA’ARETZ
1. LIEBERMAN TO TELL PM: WE WILL QUIT IF CORE ISSUES ARE ADVANCED.
In wake of PA negotiations progress, Yisrael Beteinu Chairman to convene his party’s secretariat on Tuesday in order to decide whether to remain in Government.
2. Ahead of the Winograd Report.
FOREIGN MINISTRY: GROUND ACTION BEGAN DESPITE IMPROVED AGREEMENT.
10 August – PM’s people discussed Security Council draft agreement with US administration emissaries. 11 August, 04:00 – Israel receives draft defined as „bad for Israel.” 15:00 – Rice tells Livni: two of four problematic clauses have been changed for your benefit. 16:50 – Olmert: „Start operation.” Contacts on changing draft continue. 20:00 – Israel receives final version. First forces land in Lebanon one hour later.
3. FIVE ISRAELIS KILLED IN NAMIBIA PLANE CRASH.
Apparently dead were diamond merchants in area on business. Foreign Ministry: Great difficulty identifying bodies.
4. „SYRIA REBUILDING INSTALLATION THAT WAS ATTACKED.”
Yesterday: New York Times publishes satellite photos documenting the construction.
MA’ARIV
1. „They should tell me to my face what they think has happened to them. They shouldn’t pity me.”
I WANT THEM TO TELL ME THE TRUTH.
Ma’ariv revealed on Friday: Hezbollah estimates that Israel will declare Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev as fallen soldiers whose burial place is unknown. „I understand that the situation is not optimistic,” says Karnit Goldwasser, „I am realistic.”
2. EVEN BEFORE SHALIT DEAL: ISRAEL EXPECTED TO RELEASE DOZENS OF HAMAS PRISONERS.
Egyptian sources: Group of 80-100 prisoners on list delivered by organization.
3. DIAMOND MERCHANTS DISASTER.
Namibia: Five Israelis and local pilot killed yesterday when light plane crashed into building. (…).
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Five Israeli diamond merchants perish in Namibia plane crash.
THEY TOOK OFF TO THEIR DEATHS.
Yediot Ahronot has initiated the countdown to a major Israeli operation is Gaza and proffers various reasons for and against it.
Ma’ariv contends that most public figures do their best to fulfill their missions to advance the agendas in which they believe. The editors suggest that the view that US President George Bush’s visit was a show designed to save Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, is both primitive and deceitful.
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