HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. US PRESENTED NETANYAHU WITH IRAN ATTACK PLAN
White House National Security Advisor, Tom Donilon, briefed Netanyahu on American contingency plans for military operation
– in case diplomacy fails.
2. WHITE HOUSE CONVINCED THAT NETANYAHU ASSISTING IN ROMNEY VISIT’S SUCCESS
3. HEZBOLLAH VIDEO SHOWS EASE OF KIDNAPPING
MA’ARIV
1. TOMORROW: GOVERNMENT TO APPROVE INCOME TAX HIKE (…).
2. KIDNAPPING ON CAMERA
Six years after the incident which led to the Second Lebanon War, Hezbollah releases video documenting Regev, Goldwasser kidnapping.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. THE RACE FOR GOLD
(…).
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Dancing on blood: Hezbollah releases documentation of Regev, Goldwasser kidnapping.
OPEN WOUND
Film demonstrates the ease in which the terrorist crossed the border in 2006, an incident which led to Second Lebanon War. Families: „Nasrallah thinks that he is a hero, but he is hiding in a bunker.”
2. FISCHER: TAX INCREASES – ESSENTIAL
BOI Governor supports new plan of decrees. (…).
3. STORM IN THE MOSSAD: DEPARTMENT HEAD FIRED (…).
WALLA!
1. NETANYAHU: „MILITARY THREAT ON IRAN IS NECESSARY”; ROMNEY: „I ADOPT YOUR POSITION”
2. „SYRIA HAS INCREASED ITS CHEMICAL WEAPONS ARSENAL WITH IRAN’S HELP”
The Washington Post reports<www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/syria-has-expanded-chemical-weapons-supply-with-irans-help-documents-show/2012/07/27/gJQAjJ3EEX_story.html>, according to documents and expert opinions, that in recent years Syria has expanded its chemical weapons hoard, including purchases of chemicals from Europe under guise of civilian use.
NANA10
1. ROMNEY’S ADVISOR: HE WILL BACK AN ISRAELI ATTACK IN IRAN
2. REPORT: SYRIA INCREASED ITS CHEMICAL WEAPONS STOCK WITH IRANIAN ASSISTANCE
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:20.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot argues that, „The tax package that the Prime Minister Finance Minister will present tomorrow for Government approval is economically necessary, but not socially balanced. Under pressure of time and through a certain social outlook they chose tax solutions easy for the Government and tough for most citizens: Raising the VAT, which is a particularly regressive tax, and raising income tax at the median income levels. The Government has no intention of dealing will tax exemptions or benefits, which it has granted in the past to preferred sectors which amount to many billions.”
Ma’ariv contends that, „In the psychological war for public opinion between us and the Palestinians, which is being waged in full force in the world and Israeli media, we are at a disadvantage. This is also against the background of the desire by some of our media to always be balanced, neutral and objective as much as possible and to present, without any proportion or justice, the stance of ‘the other side’.” The author argues that, „When our media, especially electronic, provides a constant stage for propaganda and incitement to the representatives of the ‘other side’, who are our enemies, we are losing the battle.”
Yisrael Hayom says that, „It is not easy to view the video clip of the kidnapping of Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev that was released by Hezbollah over the weekend.” The author says that, „The lesson is important to us all, especially in order to sharpen our awareness which was lacking in 2006 (the result of years of neglect since our withdrawal from Lebanon) and to remind us that despite the clear disparity in strength
– Israel and the IDF being much stronger –
Hezbollah has the irrefutable ability to harm and hurt especially through kidnapping and much more extensive operations.”
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