HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. NETANYAHU: POWERS MUST NOT GIVE IN TO IRAN
While IAEA Director was visiting in Teheran in an attempt to advance nuclear negotiations, the Prime Minister said: „They need to set clear demands.”
2. US ARMY PREPARED FOR DETERRENCE, NOT ATTACK
MA’ARIV
1. SENIOR ISRAELI: NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN WILL NOT DELAY AN ATTACK
Assessment in Jerusalem that in the meeting tomorrow Teheran will not give in on 20% uranium enrichment, and therefore no breakthrough will be achieved.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. EN ROUTE TO AN AGREEMENT WITH IRAN
On eve of nuclear talks tomorrow in Baghdad: Optimism in the West. IAEA Chairman reported on successful visit in Teheran. In Israel, warnings: Iran will not halt race to a bomb.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Tomorrow in Baghdad: Powers and Iran in another round.
NETANYAHU TO THE WEST: „DO NOT SHOW WEAKNESS, DO NOT GIVE IN TO IRAN”
WALLA!
1. LABOR FEDERATION ELECTIONS: „THE WORKERS WILL HAVE THEIR SAY”
NANA10
1. CHINESE VICE PRESIDENT TO GANTZ: WE UNDERSTAND ISRAEL’S CONCERNS OVER IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
2. AZERBAIJAN: IRAN PRESSURING US TO CUT TIES WITH ISRAEL
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:50.] ____________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot believes that, „Netanyahu’s and Barak’s perspectives have not changed, just as Netanyahu’s ‘natural’ partners (the settlers, ultra-Orthodox, Liberman) did not change merely because [Kadima MKs] Nachman Shai and Dalia Itzik have joined the coalition.”
Ma’ariv argues that, „Olmert’s remarks on Jerusalem were, perhaps, aggravating, but there is a danger that we are en route to a bi-national city, and then a bi-national country. The problem is that we are prisoners to slogans. Instead of saving Jerusalem, we are losing it.”
Yisrael Hayom refers to Saudi Arabia’s freezing of diplomatic ties with longtime ally Egypt and what it means to the latter
– on the eve of Cairo’s presidential elections – and other neighboring Arab states: „The first and important message directed especially towards the Egyptian public voting for their President in the first round this week: Egypt is in desperate economic straits and is in need of significant external aid. Saudi Arabia has pledged $3.75 billion, of which half a billion has been transferred so far. If the forecasts are realized and a radical president is chosen who is liable to take diplomatic stands not to the Saudis’ liking, there will be consequences – the end to Saudi aid. This is a signal to other regimes that might be in need of Saudi assistance: Syria for its rehabilitation after its civil war, divided Yemen and others. All these will receive a Saudi economic response. The Saudi step is nothing other than a first step in taking a stance. The Saudi regime senses that it is in a struggle for survival and will not hesitate to use more significant diplomatic and economic means if need be if the present hint is not taken.”
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