HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS

 

HA’ARETZ :1. REPORT: ISRAEL BOMBED WEAPONS SMUGGLERS IN SUDAN

Country’s media reporting that Israel carried out two attacks in recent weeks. Hamas PM Haniyeh expected to visit Sudan capital Khartoum this week

 

2. DEFENSE BUDGET 2012 WILL NOT BE CUT

 

1. BEIT SHEMESH STORMY IN WAKE OF PROTEST RALLY

Demonstration expected to take place in ultra-orthodox neighborhood against religious coercion. City inspectors removed street segregation signs and were called „Nazis”.

 

2. REPORT: ISRAEL BOMBED WEAPONS CONVOYS IN SUDAN

Claims in Sudan contend that Air Force planes tried to foil weapons smuggling to Gaza. Israel refuses to relate to reports.

 

1. „IDF SUBMARINE AND AIRCRAFT ATTACKED SUDAN”

Foreign reports: While South Sudan President visited in Jerusalem, IDF acted against new nation’s northern neighbor. Objective: Weapons smugglers on way to Gaza.

 

2. Next crisis with Turkey.

KNESSET WILL DEBATE TODAY ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST

Only a few days ago Erdogan froze relations with France after it recognized Turkish responsibility in genocide.

 

1. LONG REACH IN SUDAN?

Report in Sudan: Israeli Air Force attacked convoy on weapons smugglers in east of country on 15^th and 18^th of December. According to reports, vehicles which were attacked traversed on Hamas’s well known smuggling route. ‘Official’ Sudan denies. Israel not relating.

 

2. SEGREGATION WAR IN BEIT SHEMESH

Police remove sign ordering segregation in streets. Residents rioted – and put it back in place. (…).

 

3. TEMPLE SEAL

Discovery: Antiquities Authority revealed a small, rare seal which was likely used to label objects brought to the temple as ‘pure’.

 

1. BEIT SHEMESH: „”ULTRA-ORTHODOX THREATENING SECULAR NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL”

 

2. IRAN THREATENING: ATTACK ON OUR TERRITORY – ISRAELI SUICIDE

 

3. ANOTHER CRISIS WITH TURKEY? KNESSET TO DISCUSS ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST

Education Committee holding”academic debate” on the Ottoman Empire’s massacres.

 

1. IRANIAN DM: „ISRAEL WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTACK US, UNLESS IT WANTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE”

 

2. SENSITIVE DEBATE IN EDUCATION COMMITTEE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: „MORAL AND HISTORIC OBLIGATION”

 

 

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Yediot Ahronot contends that, „Those who ‘steal into’ our borders from Africa are young, courageous, determined, and grateful to their country of refuge and want very much to be Israelis. They are likely to be a blessing and it would be worthwhile to absorb them.”

 

Ma’ariv note that, „History will certainly define 2011 as the year of great surprises in the Middle East. We don’t succeed in digesting one development and a new surprising development lands on us. The Arab people broke the barrier of fear, went out to the city squares and astounded with mass uprisings against their tyrannical leaders. We declared, in January, on the coming of the ‘Arab Spring’. Within a short time the regimes of Tunisia and Libya fell, and in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak was toppled and stood before the law as an ordinary citizen. The result of elections is an ‘Islamic Winter’: 75% of the voters choose to vote in the first two rounds for Islamic parties – the Islamic Brotherhood and the Salafists – and the liberal secular bloc who initiated and lead the uprising received the remaining vote, constituting a minority.” The author advises that, „We must open our eyes and avoid officially relating to what is happening in the Arab counties. Our reactions will be exploited by hostile elements to ignite attention away from severe internal problems towards the direction of Israel – the hate of their souls. In parallel, we must try to find moderate elements in order, together with them, to maintain regional geopolitical stability.”

 

Yisrael Hayom remarks that, „There are no positive sides to the crisis between Israel and Turkey.” The author argues that, „But as long as the feeling of Israeli obligation towards Turkey is low, as it is today, this is an opportunity for us to recognize, officially, the Armenian holocaust, even if we do not adjoin to it punishment for the denial of the Armenian holocaust, as did the French Parliament.”