Yediot Aharonot suggests that „First, the Labor Party lost its social worldview, then its diplomatic worldview,
then its self-respect and finally its will to live,” and adds that „Otherwise, it is difficult to understand how this miserable bunch, that still carries the name ‘party’, continues to sit in this Government and this coalition.” The author says that the peace process, ostensibly one of Labor’s main reasons for being in the Government, is deadlocked and urges the party to realize that „Liberman and Yishai do as they please,” whereas it is marginalized. The paper asserts that „the nakedness of this Government has been exposed for some time and Labor is not even a fig leaf,” and declares that „If it had even minimal self-respect, it would stand against the destruction of its values and threaten to quit. For example, if steps are not taken against rabbis who serve in official positions but who call for a ban on renting apartments to Arabs. Or, for example, against the initiative of the little Putins for a committee of inquiry into left-wing organizations. Threaten and, if need be, act. If not for ideological integrity, then for the practical consideration of saving the remains of its power.”
Ma’ariv asserts that „One cannot blame the American right-wing for the shooting attack on the Democratic Congresswoman,” and adds that „While they worked crudely for her defeat, their methods were legitimate.” The author comments that „the American Left, as well as several Israeli media outlets, rushed to blame right-wing incitement,” but believes that „This is much more of a political rethan was the murder itself.”
Yisrael Hayom believes that Israel is monitoring the impending secession of oil-rich, mainly Christian and animist, southern Sudan from oil-poor, mainly Arab and Muslim, northern Sudan. The author avers that „Israel is likely to forge official diplomatic links with the south and win the opening of the south Sudan market to Israeli business people.”
Haaretz deliberates the open letter sent by a group of Israeli intellectuals to the 41 MKs who voted to establish a parliamentary committee of inquiry to study the sources of funding for human rights groups, in which they claim that if a committee of inquiry into human rights groups is established, the government will lose the last of its legitimacy, and calls on politicians and the public to „break through the wall of fascism that is in the process of imprisoning the state.” The editor asserts that „This is no longer a matter only of Israel’s good name and global image. It is about redefining Israeli society, turning it into a society that, as in China, North Korea, Iran and some Arab countries, spews out even the intellectuals who are still seeking the honorable path.”
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