1. IDF steps up struggle against „charity associations.”
GOAL: WRECK HAMAS’S WEST BANK CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE.
2. SUSPICION: LANDS AT MIGRON PURCHASED WITH FORGED DOCUMENTS.
How do you buy land in the territories? Set up a company, give it an Arab name („Al-Watan”) and submit a power-of-attorney documentary, the signatory of which, from California, apparently died 40 years ago.
MA’ARIV
1. Mediator Ofer Dekel to receive Hezbollah findings in coming days.
SENIOR DIPLOMATIC SOURCE: REPORT WON’T HARM DEAL.
Despite assessments that Hezbollah will not disclose any new information on fate of Ron Arad, Israel is determined to complete Goldwasser-Regev-Kuntar deal.
2. EMBARRASSMENT IN JORDAN: WILL MURDERERS OF SOLDIERS FROM 1990 ALSO BE FREED?
3. SETBACK FOR RAMON.
Government wanted compromise and decided against inquiry committee. Friedmann and Ramon sent to State Comptroller.
4. Expose.
EINI’S POWER WITHIN KADIMA.
Thus Histadrut Chairman and large workers’ committees control 10,000 out of 60,000 members who will determine who will be next Prime Minister.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Hezbollah report on Ron Arad to reach country today or tomorrow.
CAPTIVES DEAL UNDERWAY.
Ahead of return of abductees Regev and Goldwasser: Israel awaiting Ofer Dekel’s return from Europe with report on fate of Ron Arad. This morning: IDF to begin exhuming terrorists’ bodies.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot remarks that it has been a long time, „since the Middle East has known such a stormy diplomatic journey as it has of late: The ceasefire agreement with Hamas, through the contacts with Syria and the Israeli proposal to Lebanon to resolve contentious issues obstructing the path to a settlement, and through to the continuation of the Annapolis process.” The editors opine that, „Except for the Annapolis process, which seems not to be going anywhere, due to unbridgeable gaps between the sides, all the other diplomatic steps are tactical rather than strategic.” But the paper concludes that, „Tactical moves always have the potential of becoming strategic changes,” and adds that diplomatic initiatives with, „Lebanon, Syria, and maybe even Iran have not been condemned to be perpetual failures.”
Ma’ariv says that, „In a February 2005 Knesset session, the IDF Judge Advocate-General determined: ‘The main reason for halting the destruction of terrorists’ homes stems from its ineffectiveness.'” From here the editors surmise, „A great deal of naiveté is required in order to believe that the destruction of the bulldozer terrorist’s family’s home in eastern Jerusalem will prevent the next attack.”
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