SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS

 

1. „DEATH TO ARABS” ON GRAVES IN JAFFA, MOLOTOV COCKTAIL THROWN AT SYNAGOGUE

Hundreds demonstrated last night over desecration of 25 graves in Muslim and Christian cemeteries. Security around mosques to be strengthened.

 

2. After Netanyahu’s failure

ONLY THIS MORNING WILL TRAJTENBERG REPORT BE VOTED ON

 

1. PRICE TAG IN JAFFA

Two Arab cemeteries desecrated on Yom Kippur. Molotov cocktail hurled at synagogue in response.

 

2. NEW IDF ORDER SETS POLICY FOR EXPERIMENTS ON SOLDIERS

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3. SECOND ATTEMPT: TRAJTENBERG RECOMMENDATIONS TO CABINET

Before vote on the conclusions, Cabinet will approve appointment of Liberman confidant as Ambassador to Belarus.

 

1. PLAYING WITH FIRE

A few days after the Tuba Zangaria mosque attack: Hate graffiti found in Muslim and Christian cemeteries in Jaffa. Response was quick to come: Molotov cocktail thrown at synagogue last night.

 

2. TRAJTENBERG REPORT RETURNS TO CABINET

After last week’s failure: Netanyahu will try today to convince his ministers to support recommendations.

 

1. Effort to recruit majority to approve recommendations of committee on socio-economic change.

TODAY: TRAJTENBERG REPORT TO THE CABINET AGAIN

PM’s Bureau holding feverish behind-the-scenes contacts with Yisrael Beytenu, Shas and independence faction in order to persuade them to support committee’s conclusions. Pressure on Likud ministers who opposed recommendations last week as well; Minister Kahlon to support. Still unclear if vote will be held today. (…)

 

2. JAFFA AT BOILING POINT

‘Price Tag’ and ‘Death to Arabs’ graffiti sprayed on graves in two Jaffa cemeteries. Molotov cocktail thrown at synagogue. Last night: 250 residents protested against racism. This morning: Police o heightened alert.

 

1. SUSPICION GROWING: JAFFA GRAVES NOT DESECRATED BY RIGHT-WING ACTIVISTS

Police assess that acts were perpetrated two weeks ago, and that juveniles are responsible, not right-wing activists. Suspicion arose after it was ascertained that gravestones were also desecrated with graffiti against immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

 

2. ABU MAZEN HINTS: OLMERT TOPPLED BECAUSE HE WAS CLOSE TO AN AGREEMENT

 

1. APPARENT: TRAJTENBERG REPORT TO PASS IN CABINET, DESPITE SHAS OPPOSITION

 

2. NETANYAHU REGARDING GRAVE DESECRATIONS: „WE WILL NOT TOLERATE VANDALISM, AND CERTAINLY NOT AGAINST RELIGIOUS SENSITIVITIES.”

 

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Yediot Ahronot notes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will try again today to have the Cabinet approve the Trajtenberg committee recommendations and contends that, „Netanyahu needs the Cabinet decision merely to flaunt a political achievement: ‘I set up the committee. I had the Cabinet approve the report. I am the leader.'” The author adds that, „After the Cabinet, the operative decisions will be submitted to the Knesset, which intends to discuss each and every article separately. The political battle there will be long and exhausting and cannot be sidestepped by the propaganda act of ‘approval in principle’, which has no substance and is unnecessary, unless somebody wants to make do with it and skip the real work.”

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Two papers comment on the latest ‘price tag’ actions, the defacing of Muslim and Christian graves in Jaffa:

 

Ma’ariv says that, „Just as according to Hamas and the extreme Left, there is no Green Line and Tel Aviv is also a settlement, the Jewish Jihad thinks exactly the same thing.” The author calls on the Government to take a far more aggressive line against the extreme nationalist Right, including cutting off funding to its institutions and indicting its leaders for incitement if such a step is warranted, and warns that, „The damage is liable to be much greater than just local. They could drag us into riots in Jaffa, into another intifada.”

 

Yisrael Hayom asserts that, „The price tag criminals, whoever they are, are blind, have lost their way and are hurting both the moral strength of the State of Israel and the possibility of taking up the justice of our cause with clean hands,” and adds that, „The crazies who burn and desecrate Islamic religious sites are no better than those who desecrate Jewish cemeteries in Europe or the [Jewish] cemetery on the Mt. of Olives in Jerusalem.” The author argues that the perpetrators of ‘price tag’ actions are endangering Jewish communities around the world.” The paper says that, „The gardens from whence sprang, perhaps, the noxious weeds of the most dangerous kind are known, marked out and few. These are neither settlers nor the Right, but the most marginalized and delusional elements. Even so, all rabbis must raise their voices in protest because the sin of silence is no less severe.”

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