Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press
Yediot Aharonot, in response to numerous telephone calls by foreign journalists who enquired: How is it that the world is excited about the renewed direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, while in Israel the big announcement only merits second or third place among news items, the author replies, „Apparently the Israelis, including those who view an Israeli-Palestinian peace as important and positive, learned to differentiate between celebratory ceremonies on the White House southern lawn and the reality of life here.”
Ma’ariv calls the Bushehr nuclear reactor a „spit in the face.” The author contends that „The problem is Iran’s effort to take control of the uranium enrichment process – a process which could allow it to actually enrich it militarily. The danger, in other words, is not the Bushehr reactor, but rather the Natantz uranium enrichment plant. The momentum of activating the Bushehr reactor and the unilateral determination of facts is liable to harm Israel in its attempts to halt the more dangerous processes of the Iranian nuclear program.”
Yisrael Hayom professes that „The most genuine goal of these [direct] talks will be to determine an agreed upon agenda that will answer those same issues which will be almost impossible to solve in the near future, and therefore, it would seem, that there will be a need to lower the level of expectations and try, in these talks, to arrive upon formulas which will solve some of the problems, even if not all of them.”
The Jerusalem Post reflects on the small step taken recently by the Lebanese government to ease the situation of the Palestinian refugees who reside in Lebanon, and editor states that however inadvertently, the Lebanese move „highlighted a potential route to real progress,” namely the integration of genuine refugees and their generations of descendants who were dislocated during the War of Independence and the Six Day War.
Haaretz remarks on the Institute for Zionist Strategies’ report on the ‘post-Zionist’ curricula prevalent in sociology departments and its warning that it would stop donations because of it, and states that „As education minister and chairman of the Council for Higher Education, [Gideon] Sa’ar must go beyond his feeble condemnation of the attempt to sabotage the universities’ balance sheets. No financial assistance can preserve Israeli academia’s prestige or ensure its excellence if the government, including the prime minister, does not unequivocally censure this attempt to undermine the independence of higher education.”
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