Ma’ariv notes that „The initiative by a small group of bored Yisrael Beteynu MKs to examine the financial sources of some NGOs in Israel seems to be especially pathetic.
Ma’ariv notes that „The initiative by a small group of bored Yisrael Beteynu MKs to examine the financial sources of some NGOs in Israel seems to be especially pathetic. And since this initiative has no legislative chance, the correct approach is to simply ignore it. Not every instance of right-wing chest-beating is fascism, McCarthyism or a cause for concern.”
Haaretz calls on PM Netanyahu to follow the example of the justice minister and the attorney general and to denounce the inflammatory statements of Avigdor Liberman regarding local human rights organizations, and states that the unbridled incitement by a senior coalition partner against Israeli citizens is outside the legitimate spectrum of opinion.
Yediot Aharonot refers to left-wing activist Yonatan Pollack, who has just begun a three month sentence: „Pollack was sent to jail after having disrupted traffic with his ‘peace motorcycles’. Thus, he is no different from right-wing activists who blocked roads during the disengagement.”
The Jerusalem Post commends this week’s cabinet decision to make major reforms in IDF draft policy that will enable the drafting of members of the haredi community into the IDF, and states that „If everything goes as intended, the plan will bring 65% of haredim turning 18 in coming years into military or national service by 2015.” The editor concludes: „The haredi community has benefited greatly from the Jewish state. Many of the old ideological battles are over. The time has come to help share the burdens.”
Yisrael Hayom predicts that „In the future, it will be [Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan who will be remembered as having founded a destructive version of Islam, and Iran, paradoxically, will be more secular.”
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