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The Jerusalem Post comments on the culmination of Ron Prosor’s four-year term as Israel’s ambassador to the UN, and points out that during that time he basically resided in a parallel universe that exists only for the UN. The editor gives him credit  for sticking it out on this parallel universe, “where the laws of right and wrong, good and bad, are suspended,” and wishes his replacement, Danny Danon, much success.

Haaretz cautions that the escalation in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, in which nine Palestinians were killed, is liable to drag Israel into a military campaign that will overshadow the string of terror attacks on other fronts over the last two weeks, and declares: “The fear of another conflict in Gaza, which is delaying replacement of the head of the IDF’s Southern Command, must be kept constantly before the short-sighted eyes of Israel’s government.” The editor adds: “We need an immediate security dialogue with Hamas, via any available Arab or European channel, to calm the front and intensify efforts to achieve an armistice more durable than the fragile cease-fire of the past year.”

Yediot Aharonot notes that “Quietly and, as usual, without any real discussions and out of the instincts of a hot-blooded mind,” Israel has begun to implement the death sentence. The editor believes that the rules of engagement have changed, and it will not be long before civilian gun holders begin shooting at anyone that seems suspicious, and declares: “there is no doubt that we should at least discuss these issues before opening fire, and before blood becomes the cheapest commodity in the Israeli market.”

Israel Hayom believes that there is no doubt that the ISIS’ evil spirit, “the spirit of radicalism and madness that it and other like-minded groups espouse, is the tailwind and perhaps even the cause of the terror wave hitting us in recent days,” and contends that “It is naive to think this evil spirit won’t reach us and plant roots among the restless youths in the Palestinian territories, maybe even in the Israeli Arab population as well.” The author notes that Israeli society is a strong society in which all its parts and all its various sectors — including the Arab sector — are partners in the effort to maintain and strengthen it, and states: “We need to understand the significance of the terror wave hitting us, and to understand that there is no magical solution to the lone-wolf attacker who wakes in the morning and decides to kill people in the name of God. We need to realize that this form of extremism cannot be stopped by concrete walls and metal fences, but only through determination and fortitude, our real security barrier.”