1. Gasoline supplies in Gaza ran out over the weekend. Five Palestinians killed in incidents in the territories.
IDF PREPARING FOR MARCH BY THOUSANDS OF GAZANS TOWARDS FENCE.
2. KFIR BRIGADE SOLDIERS ABUSIVE AND OFFICERS ADMIT: „WE ARE IN A DIFFICULT PERIOD.”
3. „IRAN IS CONTINUING TO ENRICH URANIUM.”
4. Second edition: Historian Toaff changes his version of blood libel.
„THERE WAS NO MURDER OF CHRISTIANS BY JEWS.”
MA’ARIV
1. Teheran preparing for UN sanctions.
IRAN’S NUCLEAR CAMPAIGN.
Moment before UN Security Council decision, Iran trying to reduce overwhelming majority against it. In its sights: South Africa, Indonesia, Libya, Vietnam and China.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. (…).
THIS IS HOW WE WILL HELP RESIDENTS OF SDEROT.
On Friday, thousands flooded shops in Sderot but once is not enough (…).
2. „NATIONAL TRANQUILIZER” EN ROUTE TO UN.
Nahman Shai is leading candidate for post of Israeli Ambassador to the UN.
3. TONIGHT: ISRAEL WANTS AN OSCAR.
By morning, we will know if „Beaufort” has brought golden statuette back home.
[MAKOR RISHON-HATZOFEH was unavailable today.]
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot ponders Israeli society’s aversion toward Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The editors refer to the two as „very talented” and „extremely ambitious” men who lack patience and forbearance. The paper concludes by saying, „It hurts to see and discover that one of these days, the public will have to choose, not the leader which it loves, but rather the one who it hates less.”
Ma’ariv suggests a scenario for the recent elimination of Hezbollah arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh. The editors hypothesize that a prime suspect is Saudi Arabia, noting both the June 1996 car bomb in Dhahran, which the Saudis believe was perpetrated by a Revolutionary Guard/Hezbollah sleeper cell, and the general threat posed by Iran and Hezbollah to the Sunni Muslim kingdom. The plot, so the paper’s theory goes, included cooperation between the Saudi intelligence organization, the Mossad and the CIA to dispose of „the ‘trouble maker’ whom most Arab countries secretly wished to be rid of.”
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