Izraeli lapok vezércikkei angolul

The Jerusalem Post is angered by the Palestinian-initiated draft resolution to the UNESCO Executive Board that calls to declare the Western Wall a Muslim holy site, the most recent of their ongoing efforts to deny or obscure the Jews’ deep historical and religious ties to the Land of Israel, and asserts: “No amount of historical negationism and manipulation of the facts will erase Jews’ ties to the Land of Israel.”

Haaretz criticizes the Ministerial Committee for Legislation’s approval earlier this week of a bill that would let the police stop and frisk anyone, even if they aren’t suspected of committing a crime or carrying a weapon, and states: “Based on past experience, there is good reason to suspect that the authority to search without reasonable suspicion will be invoked primarily against the ‘usual suspects’ in Israel, such as Arabs and asylum seekers, based on unacceptable ethnic profiling.” The editor adds: “Upholding human rights means the police can only search a person when there is a concrete suspicion concerning the individual,” and concludes: “It would behoove the Knesset to withdraw this bill from its agenda.”

Yediot Aharonot queries the logic behind the European Union and American administration’s calls for restraint „on both sides,” when it is glaringly clear that “the calls for murder and for the annihilation of heretics, Christians too, are a regular thing in the global jihad’s propaganda.” The author asserts: “As far as the American administration is concerned, there is no Islamic terror. There are poor people acting out of distress,” and adds: “When the US administration spokespeople, including Kerry, justify the perpetrators of terror, they are not advancing peace and reconciliation. On the contrary, they are hurting the sane Muslim majority. They are encouraging the minority which has chosen the way of terror.”

Israel Hayom commends the IDF decision to investigate whether soldiers were involved in the lynching of the Eritrean national during Sunday evening’s lethal terrorist attack at the Beersheba central bus station, as well as its decision to launch an investigation into the actions of the soldiers who were present at the scene of the attack and failed to engage the terrorist, leaving it to the policemen called to the bus station. The author asserts: “Seeing soldiers allegedly cower away when faced with a security incident while civilians charge forward is an unhealthy reversal of roles,” and declares: “The IDF must nip this trend in the bud and make the obvious clear to all troops: You are bound by the uniform you wear, and these uniforms spell a code of ethics and actions.”