HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAEL HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ:1. MATRICULATION STATISTICS: GAP GROWING BETWEEN STRONG AND WEAK COMMUNITIES
2. Barak vs. Liberman:
„CALL TO OUST ABBAS HARMS ISRAELI INTERESTS.”
3. US TO CORRIE FAMILY: ISRAEL DID NOT CONDUCT SATISFACTORY INVESTIGATION INTO YOUR DAUGHTER’S DEATH
MA’ARIV
1. Four days to opening of school year.
ELIGIBILITY FOR MATRICULATION: SHARON AREA AT THE TOP, PERIPHERY AT THE BOTTOM (…).
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. (…).
MUNICIPALITIES’ MATRICULATION EXAM
(…).
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Outrage in Israel over UN Secretary General’s trip to conference in Iran.
GANTZ: WHOEVER TRIES TO HARM US
– WILL DISCOVER OUR LETHAL POWER Chief-of-Staff’s remarks – against background on regional tension. Despite condemnation by Israel and US, Secy.-Gen. Ban to attend Non-Aligned Nations Conference in Tehran. Diplomatic source: The Secy.-Gen. is legitimizing leaders who call for the destruction of Israel.
WALLA!
1. „HEZBOLLAH HELD EXERCISE WITH 10,000 ACTIVISTS”
Sources defined ‘reliable’ report to Lebanese paper, Al Gomhuria that the organization simulated conquering of territories in the Galilee in an exercise commanded by Nasrallah alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders.
2. US: „THERE IS TIME TO NEGOTIATE WITH IRAN, BUT ITS EFFORTS ARE INSUFFICENT”
NANA10
1. US: „STILL POSSIBLE TO SETTLE IRANIAN NUCLEAR CRISIS DIPLOMATICALLY”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:35.] ______________________________
SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot notes that the Government is spending NIS 5 million on an advertising campaign that lauds its socio-economic achievements, including its efforts to lower the cost of living, and says that the money is coming, „from our pockets. We are financing a campaign designed to tell us how the Government is saving us money.” While the author admits that, „NIS 5 million is not a lot of money in terms of the state budget,” she nevertheless adds, „There are 1,000 elements that would be happy to accept this amount and use it for something that is far more beneficial to the public.” The paper reminds its readers that the ads specifically extol the expansion of free education from age three and tax breaks for working parents with small children, but contends, „What is not said is that expanding free education for children from age three and tax breaks for parents with small children are irrelevant to most of the public,” at a time when, „VAT is rising by 1%, gasoline prices are skyrocketing, the price of a standard loaf of bread is going up, smokers are paying NIS 2 more for a pack of cigarettes (one should take into account that most of the smoking public buys cigarettes and does not receive cigars as gifts)
– and even someone who wants to relax with a bottle of beer, not even whiskey, will need to pay more.” The author concludes: „The sense is that Netanyahu is putting a little into one pocket and taking a lot more from the other pocket.”
Ma’ariv dismisses the claim that Iran does not intend to use such nuclear weapons as it may come to possess against Israel and asserts, „Escalation in relations between countries against the background of regional tensions or mutual tensions as a result of actions that the countries attribute to each other (killing scientists, promoting terrorist attacks against civilians in Bulgaria, etc.) are liable to bring both sides into an unintended war.” The author also dismisses any analogy to the MAD that prevailed during the Cold War: „The current global order is not divided between two superpowers that seek to maintain their strength, but is composed of global and regional powers that maintain dynamic, as opposed to stable, relations. To this unstable reality, one must add the rise on strength of not-state actors, including terrorist organizations, some of which are supported by Tehran.” The paper also cites the threat of a regional arms race and concludes, „The comparison between the Soviet and Iranian bombs merely shows how dangerous a nuclear Tehran would be for Israel, the region and the entire world.”
Yisrael Hayom criticizes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for announcing that he will attend an upcoming Non-Aligned Countries Summit in Tehran contrary to American and Israeli requests<www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Spokesman/Pages/spokemazkal100812.aspx> and avers, „It is no wonder that Iran is laughing at the world, which occasionally makes a laughingstock out of itself.” The author says that the UN Secy.-Gen.’s presence will legitimize, „a conference that is nothing more than an Iranian attempt to break through the wall of international isolation around it.” The paper dismisses the conference as, „a propaganda exercise by the ayatollahs’ regime.”
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