HEADLINES FROM THE IZRAELI HEBREW PRESS
HA’ARETZ
1. Netanyahu rejects criticism and says he will not compromise.
OBAMA: NETANYAHU’S POLICY IS DESTRUCTIVE AND IS LEADING TO ISOLATION
2. IDF SHOOTS AND KILLS PALESTINIAN YOUTH IN WEST BANK; FOUR UNARMED PALESTINIANS KILLED WITHIN A WEEK
MA’ARIV
1. Obama attacks Netanyahu in closed talks, Jewish lobby in Washington trying to reassure.
SENIOR AIPAC OFFICIALS: „RELATIONS WITH US WILL NOT BE HARMED”
One week before the elections, US President was quoted by Bloomberg yesterday: „Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” Accusations in Jerusalem: „Crude attempt to interfere in the democratic process.”
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. What the US President thinks about the Prime Minister.
OBAMA: „NETANYAHU IS A COWARD, IS LEADING ISRAEL TO DESTRUCTION”
In his sharpest criticism of Netanyahu’s conduct to date, Obama said: „He is the captive of the settlers and is leading Israel to total isolation that it won’t be able to survive in.” (…). Senior Likud officials: „Obama is interfering in Israel’s elections.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Storm in wake of attack on PM attributed to the American President.
SENIOR LIKUD OFFICIALS: OBAMA IS TRYING TO INTERFERE IN THE ELECTIONS
Obama has not denied quotes brought by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. According to reports, „Obama said that Israel is leading Israel to self-destruction; Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” Left jubilant: „Wake-up call.” Netanyahu’s confidants: „PM will not compromise in the face of international pressure.” Commentary in the Daily Telegraph: „Obama’s words are music to the ears of Israel’s enemies.”
2. FINANCE MINISTRY DIRECTOR-GENERAL: „WE HAVE NO PLANS TO RAISE TAXES”
Added: „Government already dealt with revenues in steps approved last summer.” CPI rises by 0.2%; 2012 inflation – only 1.6%.
WALLA!
1. TENDERS ISSUED FOR CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 200 UNITS IN EFRAT AND KIRYAT ARBA
NANA10
1. ISRAELI UN AMBASSADOR TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL: „ACTION MUST BE TAKEN AGAINST TRANSFER OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS FROM SYRIA TO HEZBOLLAH”
[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 12:50.]
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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot says the fact that Israel will have a prominent place in the campaign for Germany’s September elections, „attests to the fact that Germany has not delved into the depths of its anti-Semitic past, which paved the way for the Holocaust,” and adds: „Most Germans were compelled to deal with their past, in an artificial enough way, by the powers that ‘occupied’ Germany until the early 1990’s. Twenty years since the liberation from that ‘occupation’, many Germans want to be morally ‘liberated’ as well from responsibility for the Holocaust. And as long as there is a ‘special relationship’ between Israel and Germany, such ‘liberation’ will not be possible.”
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Two papers discuss the controversy over remarks about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that have been attributed to US President Barack Obama:
Ma’ariv says, „After Benjamin Netanyahu involved himself (and the State of Israel) very deeply in the American elections, after Jerusalem’s warm embrace of Mitt Romney, after his most important confidant Sheldon Adelson made huge donations in order to defeat Barack Obama, the White House’s calculated response has arrived.” The author claims that the wording of the remarks attributed to the American President, „is not coincidental,” and adds, „They are a mirror image of Netanyahu’s campaign. Netanyahu is making use of his Washington speech and the White House comes and says – You are pushing America away from you. The Likud-Beytenu’s campaign talks about a strong leader – Obama is talking about a coward.” The paper believes that Israel’s various pundits and politicians will make what they will of the remarks, but cautions that given that this is the US, „which gives us security and civilian aid and which wields its veto for us in the UN Security Council,” the remarks, „should not be ignored.”
Yisrael Hayom asserts that, „Since the White House has not issued a denial, Obama has thereby joined Shimon Peres, Ehud Olmert and Yuval Diskin, who provided verbal artillery to the opposition parties,” and adds, „The timing – one week before the elections – is not a coincidence.”
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