Summary of Editorials from the Izraeli Hebrew Press

 

1. CONCERN FOR HUNDREDS OF LIVES FOLLOWING TURKISH EARTHQUAKE

(…). Turkey rejects international aid offers, including Israel’s.

 

2. IDF TO RECOMMEND STRENGTHENING ABBAS BY SERIES OF GESTURES. NETANYAHU’S ADVISERS: HE MUST BE PUNISHED

 

3. CABINET APPROVES NEW PLAN FOR „GREEN GROWTH”

 

1. MOST OF THOSE RELEASED IN SHALIT DEAL REFUSED TO SIGN PLEDGE TO REFRAIN FROM TERRORISM

ISA agents who tried to sign them up to commitment were rebuffed: „We will be released in any case.” PM’s Bureau: „Signature not part of the agreement.”

 

1. Next storm: State Comptroller due to issue severe report.

JOB FEST IN PM’S BUREAU

Assessment: Comptroller Lindenstrauss to warn that number of jobs divvied out by recent PMs has increased from five to 50.

 

2. TURKEY: THANKS BUT WE’LL MANAGE ON OUR OWN

Following earthquake in eastern Turkey in which over 1,000 were hit, entire Israeli leadership hastened to offer assistance. But the Turks declined.

 

1. THE WORLD OFFERS HELP; TURKEY: WE’LL MANAGE ON OUR OWN

(…). Despite shortage of ambulances and rescue crews, Turkey declines all offers of assistance – including from Israel.

 

2. FOR FIRST TIME – FIVE WOMEN CADETS TO FINISH PILOT’S COURSE

Course due to end in December. Among the women cadets: First religious woman pilot. (…).

 

1. GILAD SHALIT MEETS WITH PRESIDENT PERES

(…).

 

2. HUNDREDS MISSING IN TURKEY: „WE LEFT BODIES OUTSIDE”

(…). Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan thanks countries that offered aid, including Israel, but declined to accept it.

 

3. SECURITY SOURCE: CONCERNED OVER HAMAS MOVE TO EGYPT

Possibility that Hamas will move its HQ from Syria to a country that maintains security cooperation with Israel is a negative process, according to security establishment. „Opening of Hamas offices in Cairo – legitimizing terrorism.”

 

1. PALESTINIAN DM: GABON WILL SUPPORT SECURITY COUNCIL RECOGNITION OF PALESTINIAN STATE

 

2. OFFICIAL TURKISH SOURCE: WE HAVE REJECTED ALL AID OFFERS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED SO FAR

 

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Yediot Ahronot proposes: „One state for all its inhabitants. Everyone of eleven and a half million Israelis and Palestinians, from the sea to the river, from the Gaza Strip to the Negev and the West Bank, Deheishe and Kibbutz Revivim and Deir el Balah.” The author argues that, „There is no longer a way to divide the land, and there is no other option other than to live together, with total equality, without occupation and without a barrier, without a Green Line, without uprooting one person: Not Palestinians and their olives and not the settlers and their shacks.”

 

Ma’ariv contends that, „The masses supported the release [of Gilad Shalit] ‘at any price’ because no individual had to pay the price personally. That is not true solidarity. What we have before us is the peak of the approach that favors the individual good above the national good.”

 

Yisrael Hayom opines that, „The killing of Gadhafi and the imminent fall of Assad leave only one power in the Arab World capable of standing up to Iran: Saudi Arabia.”