Az Izraeli nyomtatott média vezércikkeiből angolul

The Jerusalem Post believes that the broad support for the so-called “Freedom Flotilla,” which was prevented by the Israel Navy from entering Gaza, “raises questions about the world’s prejudiced views toward the State of Israel,” and states: “instead of denouncing Hamas for devoting so much of its energies to violent resistance and enlisting its very limited resources for the building of terrorist tunnels and rockets and for training terrorist militias, the world continues to denounce Israel for defending itself through measures such as a naval blockade designed to stop ships carrying weapons for Hamas.” The editor contends that the flotillas do nothing to advance the rights of Palestinians living under Hamas’s Islamist regime, and asserts: “Their real goal is the delegitimizati on of Israel and its right to self-defense.”

Haaretz is amazed by the shallowness and arrogance of the Israeli leadership, which “attributes great naiveté and a lack of understanding to Washington, but it is not based on any diplomatic or security achievement on the part of its critics,” and asserts that the arrogance toward Obama “harms Israel and erodes its most vital strategic asset – the firm alliance between the White House and the Prime Minister’s Office, and between the Pentagon and defense headquarters in the Kirya in Tel Aviv.”

Yediot Aharonot says that while every lone-wolf terrorist may be operating individually, they are all, in fact, “driven and influenced by the mass, systematic, Nazi incitement” of the Palestinian media. The author reminds the education minister and justice minister that “since Operation Defensive Shield, the IDF has been entering every place in the Palestinian Authority and arresting terror suspects, who are judged in the courts,” and declares it is high time the same is done to the Palestinian inciters, “because they are the ones who motivate the lone-wolf terrorist.”

Yisrael Hayom argues that with regard to the deal with Iran, “The U.S. is no longer operating under Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2013 declaration that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal.’ The belief now is that any deal that can be signed is better than having no deal at all,” and states: “To this end the U.S. is willing to compromise on nearly all of the West’s demands.” The author, Israel’s former National Security Advisor and head of the IDF’s Research Department of Israeli Military Intelligence, believes that the U.S. will spare no effort to reach a deal, and that Iran will be able to undermine the negotiations only by posing demands so outrageous, they will be deemed impossible to meet even by the deal’s most avid supporters, and states: “if I were a betting man, I would bet the U.S. will find the ‘proper’ way to capitulate to Iran’s demands and sign a deal.”