HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. SENIOR IRANIAN OFFICIAL: ISRAEL WILL BE HURT IF SYRIA IS ATTACKED
Majlis Speaker Larijani, confidant of spiritual leader Ali Khamenei, specifically links
– for the first time – between a Western attack on Syria and harm to Israel.
2. WEEK AFTER RIOTS: HUNDREDS CALLED IN TEL AVIV FOR EXPULSION OF AFRICAN EMIGRANTS
3. GELFAND LOSES TO ANAND AT WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
MA’ARIV
1. IRAN THREATENS: IF WEST ATTACKS SYRIA, ISRAEL WILL BURN
Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani warned yesterday the United States and its allies that a military intervention like in Libya would ignite „a flame that would engulf the Zionist regime.” Minister Ya’alon: Tehran laughing all the way to the bomb.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. IRAN PRESENTS: THE BIG CON
Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon reveals: While the powers were looking for a hint of Iranian flexibility in the negotiations, Iran, paradoxically, intensified pace of enrichment and the race has reached new heights. Iran threatening: If the West attacks Syria, Israel will burn.
2. GELFAND, WORLD CHESS CHAMPION RUNNER-UP: I AM PROUD OF MY ACHIEVEMENT
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. New Iranian threat: If Syria is attacked
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Israel will burn. Minister Barak:
„IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO SLEEP PEACEFULLY WITH A SWORD AT YOUR NECK”
West continues to seek compromise with Tehran but Israel warns: Time is running out. Barak: „We face decisions the importance of which cannot be exaggerated.” Yaalon: „We are at a fateful time.” Dagan and Ashkenazi attack: „Not asking what will happen the day after an attack.” US Ambassador asks that diplomacy be given another chance: „Pressure will be intensified.”
2. FOR US, YOU ARE A CHAMPION.
WALLA!
1. JERUSALEM REACTS TO IRANIAN THREAT: AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THEY HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON?
2. IRAN THREATENS: MILITARY OPERATION IN SYRIA WOULD „BURY” ISRAEL
3. BODIES OF 91 TERRORISTS TRANSFERRED FROM ISRAEL TO GAZA AND RAMALLAH
NANA10
1. IRAN PURIFYING PARCHIN SITE
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PRIOR TO POSSIBLE VISIT OF OUTSIDE INSPECTORS?
2. TRANSFER OF TERRORISTS’ BODIES FROM ISRAEL TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY HAS BEGUN
3. INVESTIGATION: IRAN SMUGGLING WEAPONS TO SYRIA IN PASSENGER PLANES
German television station reports that the Islamic Republic is transferring weapons to Assad regime and to Hezbollah, under innocent guise of commercial flights.
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:40.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot reminds its readers that, „On the day on which the shocking massacre was perpetrated in Houla in Syria, a protest demonstration was organized in London against the Habima theatre company which was performing ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at a Shakespeare festival. At the same time, The Guardian published a letter by dozens of British directors, playwrights and actors who accused Habima of collaborating with the Israeli occupation and the settlements.” The author also accuses veteran British journalist Patrick Seale of whitewashing Syrian President Bashar Assad’s record and claiming that the latter has been provoked by Western aid to the Syrian rebels. The paper asserts, „Israel is facing tough geopolitical and moral decisions, but the intolerable gap between the moral demands on Israel and the overlooking of such severe crimes in the Arab world distorts any chance for rational thought and discussion.” The author also faults leading Israeli Arabs and contends that, „Their deafening silence over what is going on in Syria reverberates sevenfold after the years in which they enthusiastically supported the brutal dictator.”
Ma’ariv discusses US-Israeli relations in the shadow of the Iranian nuclear threat. The author suggests that, „When the Americans understood that it was likely that Israel was not just talking, but had also prepared detailed plans, including maps and lists, this told them that they should start to act.” The paper believes that, „The US thus began to talk to Iran by means of threats and the imposition of sanctions,” and contends that this is what, „led the Tehran regime [back] to the negotiating table.” The author supposes that, „In the US, they understand that only this way would it be possible to delay, and perhaps stop, an Israeli attack,” and adds, „As long as they continue this way, there is a good chance that Israel will wait and see where things are going… In Jerusalem, they know that the missile waiting on the F-15 is goading the Americans and the world to use active diplomacy.”
Yisrael Hayom comments on the political situation in Egypt. The author avers, „It is difficult to assume that they [Egypt’s Islamist leadership] will rush to abrogate the peace agreement with Israel,” and ventures, „However, they will press the US into ‘bringing stability to the region’ by agreeing to substantial changes in the agreement, which will gradually make it devoid of all content.” The paper reminds its readers that nearly all revolutions have led to foreign wars as a way to unite the nation around the new regime and says, „The State of Israel should learn this lesson well, starting as soon as the second round of the Egyptian elections is over.”
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