HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. 41% SUPPORT ATTACK ON IRAN; 39% AGAINST
Yesterday: IDF tested long-range ballistic missile. Last week: IAF carried out extensive exercise in Italy which included mid-air refueling. Home Front Command begins simulated missile attack exercise in central Israel during which sirens will be sounded this morning.
MA’ARIV
1. DAGAN: INDICT ME!
Former Mossad Director rebuffs criticism regarding Iranian nuclear issue: „I have not violated field security.” On Shalit deal: „Detrimental to Israel, Gilad is no hero.” Yesterday: Ballistic missile test at Palmachim and report of IAF joint exercise in Italy.
2. The Guardian reveals:
IRAN OVERCAME THE „WORM”. TRANSFERRING URANIUM ENRICHMENT TO UNDERGROUND FACILITIES
Another report: British army revises plan for attack on Iran, in case they assist American operation. Critical IAEA report to be presented in Vienna soon on Iranian nuclear program. British Chief-of-Staff made clandestine visit to Israel.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Former Mossad Director replies to accusations against him.
„THOSE WHO ARE SPEAKING OF AN ATTACK ON IRAN ARE NETANYAHU AND BARAK. I’M A CRIMINAL? THEN THEY SHOULD INDICT ME.”
Dagan: „PM and DM said that they are weighing military option. Since then, everybody is talking about it.” Paradoxically, at the height of the Iran debate: Israel announces missile test launch and issued photos from IAF long-range attack exercise.
2. EGYPTIAN MILITARY HELICOPTER PENETRATED ISRAEL
The helicopter ignored jet fighters for 25 minutes.
3. MEIR DAGAN: „GILAD SHALIT IS NO HERO.”
YISRAEL HAYOM
- The world and Israel are signaling to Iran – in expectation of report on nuclear issue.
YAALON: DAGAN CONDUCTING HIMSELF IMPROPERLY
Deputy Prime Minister: „Dagan signed commitment to secrecy. Dagan: „Then indict me.” Minister Benny Begin: „News reports – anarchy amok.” Israel conducted ballistic missile test at Palmachim. Air Force conducted long-range attack exercise in Italy.
WALLA!
1. EXERCISE: SIRENS TO BE SOUNDED IN CENTRAL ISRAEL AT 10:05
2. IRAN REPLIES TO THREATS: „WE ARE ALWAYS PREPARED FOR WAR”
3. EGYPTIAN SOURCE: „ABU MAZEN NOT EXPECTED TO RESIGN”
4. REPORT: IRAN PRODUCED 70 KILOS OF URANIUM AND FORTIFIED FACILITIES
5. NAVY PREPARED TO STOP FLOTILLA MAKING ITS WAY FROM TURKEY TO GAZA
NANA10
1. WESTERN DIPLOMAT: BLACK HOLES IN IRANIAN ACCOUNTS, IAEA REPORT TO INCREASE THE PRESSURE
2. IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: „WE ARE ALWAYS PREPARED FOR WAR”
3. IT’S ONLY AN EXERCISE: SIRENS TO BE SOUNDED AT 10:05 IN DAN REGION
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 09:25]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot discusses the ongoing debate over the prudence of publicly discussing the possibility of an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The author asserts that, „On the one hand, reports of a possible air force attack are being condemned with unprecedented vehemence. On the other hand, the media is being fed reports that will maintain high tensions and make it clear to those who might want to destroy us how ready and prepared we are.” The author wonders if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s intelligence adviser is telling him that everything here is, „a disorganized mess,” and that, „In Israel, nobody knows what will happen.”
Ma’ariv comments on the Palestinians’ joining UNESCO and says that, „When their textbooks preach hatred and when the Palestinian media denies the Holocaust, joining UNESCO is a sad joke.” The author calls on the Palestinians to, „take responsibility and stop fostering a crybaby culture that puts the 1.5 million Palestinians in Judea and Samaria (who live better than any other residents of the Middle East) at the center of the global agenda.”
Yisrael Hayom believes that the US will – following the upcoming IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear project, which will reportedly be very severe – propose that UN Security Council impose additional, uncharacteristically sharp, sanctions on Tehran, „in order to strangle it economically and perhaps lead to the collapse of the regime from within.”
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