HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS

HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

 

HA’ARETZ: 1. DOCUMENTS FROM ASSAD’S BUREAU REVEAL IRANIAN AID.

Summaries of secret meetings between Syrian President’s people and Tehran regime representatives reveal: Thus Iran works to bypass international sanctions and prevent collapse of Assad regime.

 

 

MA’ARIV

1. SATELLITE PHOTOS PROVE: ASSAD USING ARTILLERY TO SLAUGHTER HIS OWN PEOPLE.

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YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. Defense budget cuts:

FREEZING IRON DOME.

Defense Ministry announces that it is halting the acquisition of two additional batteries.

2. „I WILL NOT FIRE YISHAI AND STEINITZ.”

Netanyahu ahead of Carmel report: There will be no dismissals. Yishai: „If people had not been killed, I would have received a citation.”

YISRAEL HAYOM

1. THUMBING THEIR NOSES AT THE WORLD.

Despite sanctions and threats: Iran and Syria aren’t stopping. Ahmadinejad hosts Haniyeh in Tehran and declares: „We will not surrender.” „Soon we will reveal significant achievements in the nuclear field.” Rockets on homes: US satellite photos prove

thus Assad is slaughtering people in Homs. (…).

 

WALLA!

1. THE STRIKE IS OVER: AGREEMENT ACHIEVED ON ISSUE OF CONTRACT WORKERS.

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2. RIGHT-WINGERS SOUGHT TO GO UP TO TEMPLE MOUNT

COMPOUND WAS CLOSED.

„Purify place of land-stealing enemies of Israel” was written in advertisement calling to go up to the area with Moshe Feiglin. Police held assessment and decided to close the area to visitors due to concern over disturbances.

 

 

 

 

 

3. IDF ATTACKS IN GAZA STRIP: „PALESTINIAN MAN KILLED AND HIS SON WOUNDED.”

 

Air Force attacked three tunnels and war materiel production site in the Strip; IDF reports direct hit on targets. Palestinians report that a mobile home was hit and that the man living in it was killed.

 

 

 

 

 

NANA10

 

1. AFTER FIVE DAYS, THE STRIKE IS OVER: „GOOD DAY FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL.”

 

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2. In response to Kassam fire: IDF bombs Gaza.

 

AIR FORCE ATTACKS THREE TERRORIST TUNNELS AND WAR MATERIEL PRODUCTION SITE IN GAZA STRIP IN RESPONSE TO KASSAM ROCKET FIRE. PALESTINIANS REPORT ONE MAN KILLED.

 

 

 

 

 

[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:50.] ______________________________

 

SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

 

Yediot Ahronot claims that, „Israel is not bound, either legally or diplomatically to any [one] solution. True, the Roadmap says something about a Palestinian state, as does the Bar-Ilan speech, but in the meantime, the Middle East has changed 180 degrees. Mighty Arab countries like Libya and Egypt are undergoing accelerated disintegration. Syria is committing suicide live on television. Nobody knows what the any given day will bring in Iraq. Winds of war are blowing through the Persian Gulf. Amman is again hosting the leader of Hamas. The Palestinians are making noise about unity again even though they are riven in two and continue to fire Kassams. Therefore, it is not logical that only we should remain bound to the old order like nothing has happened.” The author adds that, „Only President Shimon Peres continues to cling with youthful enthusiasm to the idea of two states,” but reminds his readers that, „Peres is still convinced that Oslo was an excellent idea.” The paper cautions that an Arab Spring in Judea and Samaria could easily undermine any agreement reached with Abu Mazen and calls for the consideration of new ideas.

 

Ma’ariv questions the didactic value of the school trips to Hebron being promoted by Education Minister Gideon Saar. The author claims that mass murderer Baruch Goldstein is lionized by many of Hebron’s Jewish residents and that the trips overlook more problematic aspects of Hebron’s recent history: „Those who send young people to tour Hebron have no intention of presenting them with the stains on its heritage, but seek to turn it into a sterile symbol that presents a sterile picture of the ancient Jewish past connected to a Jewish present detached from its contemporary, Arab environment. This is not educational. This is anti-educational because education about heritage is not just linking up with the past; it also entails moral questions.”

 

Yisrael Hayom commends incoming Supreme Court President Asher Grunis. The author notes that, „Grunis is known as a conservative who is inclined toward a more limited view of the right of parties to appear and be heard before the High Court of Justice,” but adds that, „Now it is his turn and he deserves our best wishes.”

 

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