HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION SUPPORTS SEGREGATION OF FOREIGN CHILDREN
Week before the start of school the city of Eilat, with the support of the ministry, appealed against a court order to integrate children of migrants in the city schools.
2. FOUR JUVENILES ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF ATTEMPTED LYNCH IN JERUSALEM
MA’ARIV
1. SECRET FINANCE MINISTRY DISCUSSION ON LOWERING PRICES (…).
2. FOUR YOUTHS ARRESTED ON SUSPICION ON TAKING PART IN LYNCH OF ARAB
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. JUVENILE LYNCH
He’s entering eighth grade, and a boy and a girl entering tenth grade were arrested along with him. They are suspected of repeatedly beating an Arab youth, in front of dozens of onlookers who did not intervene.
2. IRON DOME IN EILAT
Vacationers, someone is looking after you: Iron Dome battery stationed in Eilat yesterday, not far from where rockets, fired from Sinai, fell last week.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. (…).
PUT HIM BEHIND BARS
(…).
2. REGARDS FROM KHAMENEI: „OUR PROBLEM
– THE ZIONIST CANCER”
More hate-filled statements from the Iranian leader. Report: Iraq helping Iran to circumvent sanctions. New Home Front Defense Minister, Avi Dichter, in briefing with departing Minister Vilnai: „Iran
– an existential threat.”
WALLA!
1. HAIFA MUNICIPALITY PREPARING FOR MISSILE ATTACK: „LEARNING FROM SECOND LEBANON WAR”
2. MOFAZ DEMANDS THAT NETANYAHU „UPDATE ME ON IRANIAN ISSUE”
NANA10
1. AMERICAN JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: „NOT OBLIGATED TO SUPPORT AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN”
Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff arrives on visit to Afghanistan and refers to the possibility of an Israeli attack in Iran. Dempsey said that he is in constant contact with Chief-of-Staff Gantz, but that Israel perceives the Iranian problem with greater urgency because it poses a threat to Israel’s very existence. „You can take two countries, give them the same intelligence and reach two different conclusions.”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:30.] ____________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
All three newspapers discuss various issues regarding the Iranian threat:
Yediot Ahronot suggests that in addition to his concerns over an Iranian counter-attack against American and allied Arab targets, a sharp jump in oil prices and Israel’s being caught up in a diplomatic and military imbroglio, US President Obama also opposes a possible Israeli strike against Iran because he believes that diplomacy and sanctions have yet to be exhausted in a manner that would confer legitimacy on any pre-emptive strike. The author notes: „Obama says that sanctions are working. Netanyahu says that they are not. The problem is that both of them are referring to sanctions’ two different stages. The first is to economically and financially strangle Tehran and the second is to being about a change in its nuclear policy. Obama is referring to the first stage, which has been achieved, and Netanyahu to the second stage, which has yet to be achieved.” The paper dismisses, „the claim that one must doubt Obama’s repeated commitments to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapons capability in light of the fact that the US has previously voiced similar statements about countries like North Korea, and did not meet them,” and reminds its readers that, „In the case of North Korea, the two countries most threatened, South Korea and Japan, opposed the use of force and preferred diplomacy and sanctions.” The author believes that the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, including the strong American response, is a better analogy vis-à-vis the US stance toward the Iranian threat. The paper concludes: „The public exchange of blows between Israeli and US leaders have caused major damage to the efforts to stop a nuclear Iran and to US-Israeli relations. Since both sides agree on the magnitude of the threat and the need to prevent it, it is necessary to have a greater understanding of both sides’ motives and considerations and to restore security-diplomatic trust and coordination.”
Ma’ariv derides much of what is being written about Israeli-US relations and the Iranian threat: „The lion’s share of what we are publishing is nonsense and not public discourse in the proper sense of the term.” However, the author does believe that, „Amidst all the verbiage, Shimon Peres’ remarks against an attack on Iran were well considered and expressed the importance of cooperation with the US.”
Yisrael Hayom analyzes the repercussions of the Iranian crisis on Lebanon and asserts that, „The more that the Iranian-Syrian-Alawite chain breaks, the greater the opposition to Hezbollah inside Lebanon. Lebanon currently serves as an arena for violence, inter-communal abductions of politicians and citizens, and statements and activity against Syria and the terrorist militia that is Hezbollah.” The author contends that, „Nasrallah does not need to beat himself with a chain until he bleeds to understand that if Iran is hit, he will be hit too, and that his patron is now hungry, due to the Western sanctions, and cannot finance its terrorist satellite.”
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