HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. (…).OBAMA ADVANCING PLAN TO OUST ASSAD
(…). Netanyahu condemns massacre for first time.
2. IRAN HARDENING POSITIONS AHEAD OF CONTINUATION OF TALKS: „WE WILL BUILD A NEW REACTOR”
3. STEINITZ TO DECIDE ON GIVING IN TO INTEL, TEVA AND MOTOROLA OVER FULL TAX PAYMENTS
International companies want to move out of Israel. NIS 100 billion in profits
– and still receive benefits.
MA’ARIV
1. (…).
MASSACRE OF CHILDREN IN SYRIA
(…). Netanyahu issues sharp condemnation. (…).
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. „If the international effort vis-à-vis Iran fails, we will have no alternative but to DO WHAT IS NECESSARY TO DEFEND THE JEWISH PEOPLE”
So Netanyahu said in closed meeting over the weekend. In wake of failure of negotiations, Americans admitting: Iran is lying; next round of talks is last chance for an agreement.
2. ASSAD, CHILD MURDERER
(…).
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. (…).
IRAN: OUR FORCES ARE HELPING ASSAD
(…).
2. TEHRAN CONTINUES TO THUMB ITS NOSE
Festive announcement: We will build two more reactors at Busheir. IAEA: Iran has enriched uranium to level of 27%.
WALLA!
1. IDF TRAINING LOOKOUTS DUE TO CONCERN OVER FLOW OF MISSILES FROM SYRIA.
Out of concern that hostile elements may seize control of arsenals, 86 lookout units trained; would deploy throughout country in the event of missile attack. (…).
2. REACTION IN YITZHAR: „PALESTINIAN WHO WAS SHOT WAS ARMED WITH KNIFE”
Settlers distribute clip in which, they claim, Palestinian who was shot by community’s response team, is lying on the ground next to a knife. They accuse: „B’Tselem inciting and initiating events.”
NANA10
1. NETANYAHU AND BARAK CONDEMN SYRIAN MASSACRE: „SHOCKING”
(…).
2. PALESTINIAN SHOT AND SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN CLASH WITH SETTLERS IN YITZHAR
3. BORDER POLICE IN SOUTH TEL AVIV: RESIDENTS NOT SATISFIED
Border Police unit in city’s southern neighborhoods following tension in area. Residents not satisfied. Human rights organizations also opposed.
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 11:50.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
All three papers comment on the latest events in Syria:.
Yediot Ahronot points out that, „After 15 months of uprising, the economic situation of Assad’s regime is deteriorating, but one thing he still has money for: Weapons, and lots of them. Russia sells Syria weapons for cash only, and Syria is even ready to go bankrupt
– as long as the money flowing out maintains Russian support for the shreds of Assad’s regime.”
Ma’ariv notes that, „Syria’s historic fate was determined in a French-British agreement, and now the Americans and the Russians are dividing the goods. In Iraq the regime was toppled with American bullets, and Khadafy would not have fallen, apparently, without NATO. The Arab Spring is also the spring of the games of the old powers, and if the cruelty does not determine events in Damascus, then Moscow’s and Washington’s great game will redraw the map.”
Yisrael Hayom avers that, „Assad has stopped being afraid. Putin will not come to the aid of Obama. Russia regrets that it helped the West in Libya, and will not repeat what appears to it to be a mistake that harmed its traditional policy of dropping an anchor in the ‘warm waters’ of the Mediterranean Sea. If Obama cannot against Syria, there is almost no chance that he can against Iran and North Korea.”
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