Yediot Aharonot accuses Turkey’s Islamist government of „using Israel as a tool in order to achieve domestic goals.” The author believes that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is bashing Israel, instead of directly attacking Turkish secularism, in order to build up not only his Islamic credentials, but political Islam in Turkey. The paper calls on the Government to make it clear to the Turkish leadership and population that this „cynical use of Israel,” is unacceptable.
Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press
Yediot Aharonot accuses Turkey’s Islamist government of „using Israel as a tool in order to achieve domestic goals.” The author believes that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is bashing Israel, instead of directly attacking Turkish secularism, in order to build up not only his Islamic credentials, but political Islam in Turkey. The paper calls on the Government to make it clear to the Turkish leadership and population that this „cynical use of Israel,” is unacceptable.
Ma’ariv calls on Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz to accept the recommendations of a committee he appointed and bar the Egged and Dan bus companies from operating lines to and from ultra-orthodox areas in which women are obliged to sit at the back of the bus. If the Minister does not, the author believes, „he will lose more of whatever prestige as he has left.”
Yisrael Hayom believes that the 1995 murder of then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin „underscored the national risk in taking the law into one’s hands in such a brutal fashion,” and bids the public to also remember Rabin as „the young man who risked his life along with the same band of youths who secured Shaar Hagai and the Castel for Israel in 1948, and without which part of Jerusalem might not have become the capital of the Jewish state.”
Nana10 suggests that „The issue of children and foreign workers is not just a humanitarian and emotional issue and cannot be considered only in this light,” and criticizes, „the massive propaganda campaign being led by the Israeli Left,” on their behalf. The author adds that „When such a campaign is being waged in the state of the Jews, whose brothers around the world have suffered from the blight of assimilation – which endangers the future of the Jews as a people – in recent years, logic and sense must be employed, not just emotion. The claim that the people that underwent the Holocaust must be sensitive to the suffering of others is absolutely true but the solution does not lay in automatic approval for everyone who evaded the immigration authorities.” The paper admits that the current law might have to be revised but asserts that „We must always set before our eyes the dangers of assimilation and demography which can threaten our very existence as a people and again turn us into a persecuted minority even if decades could pass before this happens.”
The Jerusalem Post discusses the accusation this week by Amnesty International that Israel is depriving the Palestinians of water, which came hot on the heels of the Goldstone Report, and feels that „It is very hard to resist the conclusion that Amnesty’s report was commissioned to serve a specific agenda.” The editor adds that „A readiness to first hear, and then take into account, the Israeli side of the vexed water dispute would have enabled a more credible report – and one more likely to have practical impact.”
Haaretz cautions its readers to „beware of stars.” Citing the meteoric rise and fall of Arcadi Gaydamak in Israeli public life as an example, the editor asserts that „The affair teaches us, again, to beware of stars in politics. National leadership is not an innate quality or the sequel to a military or business career. It requires experience in public life – as several prime ministers who reached their post prematurely have proved.”
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