HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. STATE GAVE IN BUT MIGRON REJECTED THE COMPROMISE
Yesterday: Migron settlers rejected agreement proposed by Minister Begin even though most of their conditions were met. Center of controversy: Demand that outpost homes not be evacuated even after moved.
MA’ARIV
1. FOLLOWING GASOLINE: WAVE OF PRICE INCREASES IN THE ECONOMY
Services which are due to become more expensive: Electricity, water, public transportation, flights and some food products. Tomorrow at midnight: Gasoline prices to hit peak and Finance Ministry makes it clear: „This is not the time to give up fuel taxes.”
2. TODAY: ASHER GRUNIS TO BE SWORN IN AS SUPREME COURT PRESIDENT.
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YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. PRESSURE ON FINANCE MINISTRY: LOWER FUEL TAXES Finance Ministry insists on profiting from jump in fuel prices and is refusing to lower excise and VAT on the pretext that this would create hole in state coffers. PM considering intervening: Asked PMO Director-General to check.
YISRAEL HAYOM
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HISTADRUT DRAMA: PERETZ AND CABEL DISQUALIFIED (…).
2. WAITING FOR MIGRON’S ANSWER
Minister Benny Begin to residents: Sign agreement to move outpost. Residents: Prove that lands are owned by Palestinians.
3. START OF GRUNIS ERA
This morning: Judge Beinisch to end her Supreme Court term. Judge Grunis to be sworn in as [Supreme Court] President.
WALLA!
1. SOUTHERN BORDER HEATING UP: IDF KILLS SMUGGLER IN EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE
IDF soldiers identified infiltration into Israeli territory near Nitzana and began procedure to stop suspects. Border smugglers did not halt and soldiers opened fire at them. Protracted firefight broke out that left one smuggler dead.
2. AGAINST BACKGROUND OF ANTI-ISRAEL INCITEMENT: EDELSTEIN LEAVING FOR IRELAND.
NANA10
1. INFILTRATION FOILED: ONE TERRORIST ELIMNATED, OTHERS FLED
IDF identified suspects who had infiltrated into Israel near Nitzana and began arrest procedure. Suspects did not respond; one terrorist killed in exchange of fire.
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 14:00.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot asserts, „Without an effective alternative system in Libya the weapons’ bunkers of the previous regime have been emptied including ordnance that is considered non-conventional. There is concern that at least some of the materials have found their way to terrorist elements in the Middle East. And that is only the tentative list of damage.”
Ma’ariv discusses Israel’s ongoing socio-economic protests, the most recent of which focused on the relatively high price of a Strauss-Elite ‘Time Out’ chocolate bar in Israel, as compared to the same product sold in the US. The author points out that gasoline is twice as expensive in Israel as it in the US and suggests that the protests, „be directed towards our Government which is responsible for the gasoline fiasco. The Finance Ministry has grown accustomed to well behaved drivers. Income from taxes on gasoline has jumped in January 2012 by 3.6% compared to 2011.”
Yisrael Hayom notes, „When the US escalated its military involvement in Vietnam in 1966, British philosopher Bernard Russell initiated the creation of an international tribunal to judge the actions of the American troops based on the assumption that the violation of international treaties could be considered a punishable crime.” The author asks, „But where is the ‘Russell Tribunal’ that is supposed to be the conscience of a world which lost its conscience? The silence in the wake of the slaughter by Assad in Syria is testimony that the world’s conscience has long been dead.” The author concludes by reminding his readers that, „It was only three years ago, in 2009, that a respectable tribunal was quick to damn Israel for building the separation barrier, and now facing the slaughter in Syria there is no tribunal and no Russell.”
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