HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. EXPERTS TO PM: CONSTRUCTION ON WEST BANK WILL LEAD TO ESCALATION
Team of Middle East experts that met with Netanyahu warned that continuation of pricetag attacks is liable to lead to outbreak of intifada.
2. IDF DEMANDING IMMEDIATE DRAFT OF HUNDREDS OF ULTRA-ORTHODOX
3. ROMNEY’S ADVISER: IF HE IS ELECTED, IRAN WILL KNOW THERE IS A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN
Richard Williamson, senior adviser to the Republican candidate, tells Ha’aretz that Romney is prepared to use force to stop the nuclear program and that Israel will be his first visit abroad.
MA’ARIV
1. UN MONITORS IN SYRIA: „A SHOCKING CRIME WAS PERPETRATED HERE”
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YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. „RELEASE JONATHAN”
Tens of thousands of Israelis, including Nobel laureates, academics and artists, sign petition calling on President Peres: At your meeting with President Obama this week, ask US President to release Jonathan Pollard. Last night, Peres left for US, where he will receive Presidential Medal of Freedom.
2. PERES: WORLD MUST INTERVENE IN SYRIA
„They are our neighbors. Seeing a Syrian child in a coffin is heart-rending.” (…).
YISRAEL HAYOM
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AFTER THE SLAUGHTER: HARSH BATTLES IN CENTER OF DAMASCUS (…).
WALLA!
1. PERES TO RECEIVE MEDAL FROM OBAMA AND WILL ASK FOR POLLARD TO BE RELEASED
NANA10
1. NETANYAHU: SARA CONVINCED ME TO RELEASE SHALIT
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[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 13:50.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE IZRAELI PRESS
Yediot Ahronot suggests that, „A bombardment would greatly sharpen the world’s message to Assad: Go home, if your life is dear to you. Tyrants, for some reason, do not like to be bombarded. The special relations between France and Syria are decades old; the Syrian elite speak French. It is reasonable to deduce that when they turn their eyes towards a western entity to intervene militarily and put an end to the terrible bloodbath, they think of France. Even those amongst them who once viewed Assad as the least worse alternative, now view him as the worst. They would cheer French planes over the skies of Damascus. French public opinion would, for the most part, support such a surgical military operation. They would certainly cheer Mirages over Syrian skies, over those bombed, slaughtered, tortured and murdered by Assad’s stormtroopers. In the face of tortured, slaughtered bodies throughout Syria, there is no reason to ask ‘Where is the world?’ There is a need to ask, to scream, ‘Where is France?'”
Ma’ariv contends that, „The social networks, foremost amongst them Facebook, were founded on a wave of support by a public which believed that it was a new kind of enterprise for the good of all. So when the cutting of corners of the principles upon which the network was founded begins, it is liable to find itself on the slippery slope of losing users’ trust. Indeed, there is no lack of competitors, creative and well motivated, that will try to be the next big thing.”
Yisrael Hayom notes that, „The debate over the ‘infiltrators’ excels in a mixture of half-truths, hypocrisy
– and naiveté. There is incitement by both sides, and there are the self-righteous who moralize that because of the Holocaust we must open our gates to all who arrive, even illegally. First, the facts: They are not ‘political refugees’, i.e. people who were forced to flee from their homeland because of political, religious or racist persecution; according to various assessments, that definition applies to 20%-22% at the very most. The remainder left their countries due to economic hardship or in order to enjoy the social welfare that exists in Israel.” The author concludes that, „The illegal migrants in Israel are no different than the masses of migrants from the African continent who attempt to arrive, one way or another, to Spain, Italy, France and England.”
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