HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. Knesset rejects legalization law.
NETANYAHU’S COMPENSATION TO SETTLERS: ANOTHER 851 RESIDENTIAL UNITS IN THE TERRITORIES.
MA’ARIV
1. NETANYAHU APPROVES CONSTRUCTION OF 850 APARTMENTS IN THE WEST BANK, US CONDEMNS.
Knesset rejects legalization law by large majority. In Ma’ariv interview, Vice Premier Moshe Yaalon accuses law’s supporters: „Right-wing politicians have poisoned the settlers.”
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. THE CAPITULATION.
Moment before vote: Ministers and deputy ministers who swore to defend Ulpana neighborhood left the plenum and the law fell.
2. THE EVACUATION AND THE COMPENSATION.
Settlers outraged at „betrayal by Netanyahu and his ministers.” PM in reconciliation effort: Promises to build 851 apartments to replace the 30 that will be evacuated.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. „Legalization law” rejected by large majority. PM: Committed to settlement
– and the law.
THE COMPENSATION: ANOTHER 851 APARTMENTS IN SETTLEMENTS.
After political drama and against background of residents’ protest, plan to move five Ulpana homes in Beit El was approved. All ministers and deputy ministers who threatened to support the law were absent from the vote. Construction in Judea and Samaria to be expanded: „Instead of hurting
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strengthening.” Settlers not giving in: „We will struggle over every home and every room.”
WALLA!
1. COURT RULES: DEPORTATION OF SOUTH SUDAN CITIZENS
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LEGAL.
(…).
2. DEFENSE MINISTRY TO PRESENT: TENT CITY IN SOUTH FOR INFILTRATORS.
Ministry to present Netanyahu with detailed plan to build detention facilities on Egyptian border to house approximately 5,000 infiltrators in coming months. Senior Government officials have begun contacts with Europe for assistance.
3. GILAD FARM: STONES HURLED AT BORDER POLICE OFFICERS.
Officers responded by throwing stun grenades at stone-throwers, who were masked, in order to disperse them. Reason for clash: Rumor in south regarding demolition of two structures at the outpost. No casualties.
NANA10
1. COURT: DEPORTATION OF SOUTH SUDAN CITIZENS
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LEGAL; YISHAI: „WE WILL GET RID OF ALL OF THEM.”
Jerusalem District Court rejects motions by human rights organizations against intention to deport infiltrators from South Sudan. (…).
2. US AND THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY: CONSTRUCTION
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BLOW TO PEACE.
Ramallah and Washington criticize PM’s intention to build 850 new residential units in the West Bank.
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:05.] ____________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
All three papers discuss various issues regarding yesterday’s Knesset vote to defeat a bill that would have legalized the homes on Ulpana Hill in Beit El:
Yediot Ahronot says that, „Despite the settlers’ brutal campaign, and despite what seemed like a sure thing only a few weeks ago, they failed to meet any of their goals,” and adds that, „Netanyahu’s achievement is that he not only succeeded in preventing the passage of a problematic law, but with this vote, he put the settlers in their place.” The author suggests that, „He won back the power that the Feiglinites robbed from him at the recent Likud convention,” and asserts, „In yesterday’s vote, there was a return to proportions: Perhaps the right-wing controls the Likud convention but in the [Knesset] plenum and even in the Likud [Knesset] faction, there is only one boss and it is Netanyahu, not Feiglin.”
Ma’ariv urges its readers to, „Understand how illogical it is that there are those who fight with all their ability to leave in place, in Tel Aviv, people who are not Israelis, but in regard to us, Israelis and Jews who were born here and served here, they are scarcely heard.”
Yisrael Hayom commends the fact that there will be accelerated construction within existing communities in Judea and Samaria but believes that, „It is difficult to overlook the invective hurled by [National Union] MK Yaakov Katz at Minister Benny Begin and Minister Moshe Yaalon. He called Begin a ‘man of Sodom’ (!) and promised that they would no longer be friends. To Yaalon he said ‘He cannot appear in any community, yeshiva, institution or pre-military school. We will hound him everywhere and tell him that just as [former IDF Chief-of-Staff] Dan Halutz was made loathsome, so will he be.’ These are awful remarks and a sacrilege, even if they were said in the heat of the moment. Today, MK Katz and his friends are hurting settlement more than any evacuation of homes.”
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