Yediot Aharonot notes that…
Ma’ariv discusses the …
Yisrael Hayom, four years after the disengagement, contends …
The Jerusalem Post compares …
Haaretz discusses a…
Yediot Aharonot notes that „The new Fatah leadership, much younger and dynamic, mostly originating from the territories, is the important accomplishment of the Fatah conference which ended yesterday in Bethlehem. The ideological issue was not the focus of the discussions.” The author opines that „There should be no illusions. It must be taken into consideration that the new Fatah leadership will be more militant and extreme in its demands.” Even so, the paper contends that „It’s possible to do business with Fatah’s new leadership. The ball is (also) in our court.”
Ma’ariv discusses the affair of IDF Brig.-Gen. Imad Faris, who recently resigned after admitting that he lied regarding his wife’s use of his military vehicle in contravention of orders, and says that „Faris erred. And mistakes cost. But there are two questions: The proper measure [of punishment] and the support of his commanders. Faris is deserving of warmer support.”
Yisrael Hayom, four years after the disengagement, contends that „It was a pathetic, disastrous diplomatic move…The Original Sin was the almost total lack of a real debate of the various aspects of the disengagement: The advantages were emphasized, while the disadvantages were belittled.”
The Jerusalem Post compares the current shortage of water and doctors, and declares that both problems have been apparent for years, and were avoidable. Discussing the intention to import doctors from the former Soviet Union, the editor states that „Israel has the potential to become a first-class international medical Mecca. Instead we’ve endured a marked regression for decades, primarily because a penny saved isn’t always a penny earned. The cures that the medical framework needs are expensive in the short-haul and demand imagination. Bureaucracy’s knee-jerk inclination is to apply a band-aid to cover up systemic failure. The „Georgian solution” is only the latest case in point.”
Haaretz discusses a grave trend among senior IDF officers, who according to the editor are ‘truth-challenged’, and notes that „Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, who in the last two years have failed to deter their officers from prevaricating, are now being put to the leadership test. Their deeds and errors will send a message to the officers on whether it is forbidden to lie, or just forbidden to get caught.”
Source: Government Press Office Israel
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