Summary of editorials from the Izraeli Hebrew press
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Yediot Aharonot discusses the recent spate of Price Tag attacks and says: „Let us begin by refuting the claims that are now being made: ‘We didn’t know’, ‘We were surprised’, ‘These are sporadic incidents’, ‘The security forces are making maximum efforts to catch the perpetrators of Price Tag crimes’ and ‘Noxious weeds’. Yeah, right.” The author, a popular sports commentator, contends: „They are trying to provoke us, to cause us to lose our cool, and perhaps even our sanity, and the civil discipline to which we have committed ourselves,” and warns: „If this continues, the conflagration will surely come.” The paper fears that Price Tag attacks, if left to continue unabated, „are liable to lead to the murder of Arab personalities or the blowing up of a mosque or church,” and calls on the security services to apprehend those who perpetrate Price Tag crimes.
Yisrael Hayom hails Intel’s recently-announced plan to invest an additional $5-6 billion in its Kiryat Gat plant as a strong answer to „the prophets of rage,” who advocate boycotting Israel. The author declares: „We could not have asked for a better present for Independence Day.”
The Jerusalem Post praises the banning Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling from NBA games for life and fining him a maximum $2.5 million because of the “surreally racist remarks” he made against made against blacks, and asserts: “Until he issues a complete retraction and an apology, he has no place in civilized society.”
Haaretz discusses US Secretary of State John Kerry’s off-the-record remarks last week that Israel is in danger of becoming an apartheid state, and asserts that the “remarks essentially described reality: Israel cannot remain a Jewish and democratic state without a two-state solution, a unitary state would be an apartheid state, a stalemate in the peace process is liable to lead to another intifada and a change in the composition of Israel’s government, and/or the person heading it, is liable to change the picture.” The editor adds: “The troubling snapshot of reality that Kerry presented must be altered by implementing a two-state solution.”
