Az izraeli lapok vezércikkei angolul

The Jerusalem Post praises Sunday’s unanimous Cabinet approval of the Interior Ministry proposal to resume aliya from Ethiopia after it had been prematurely halted in 2013, and notes that the decision is “a long overdue step toward bring to Israel a community with deep ties to the Jewish people.” The editor adds: “We are witnessing the ingathering of exiles and the renewal of ancient Jewish communities that were on the brink of disappearing,” and concludes: “And all this is happening thanks to the miraculous rebirth of the Jewish people in its land.”

Haaretz criticizes former Minister of the Economy Arye Dery for refusing the Finance Ministry and the Bank of Israel’s proposal to amend the coalition agreement signed with his Shas party promising an exemption from VAT on certain staples and instead replacing the exemption with a government subsidy, thus preventing the undermining of the principle of uniform VAT on all the goods in the economy. The editor argues that this is due to Dery’s “preference for appearance over essence,” and declares: “Dery, who fled from the Economy Ministry in order not to stand in the way of approval of the anti-social gas deal, is trying to be seen as a local Robin Hood by means of empty gestures. Dery is not trying to help the population of the ‘transparent,’ people whom he claims to represent, he is interested only in enhancing his image at t heir expense.”

Yediot Aharonot discusses France’s shock and gloom in the wake of last Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, and states: “Paris began three days of mourning Saturday. But the free world needs many more days of self-examination. It’s uncertain that rethinking things will defeat terror. But with illusions of poor and desperate, with a routine supply of excuses for murderers, we are likely to see many more terror attacks.”

Israel Hayom states: “Whether or not people in the civilized world want to admit it, radical Islam has declared war on Western civilization,” and asserts that despite what many people have been insisting since 9/11, Israeli ‘occupation’ or ‘settlements’ are not the root of Muslim rage. The author argues that a clash of civilizations is the main cause of friction between Islam and Western civilization, and hopes that the world “will once and for all understand and appreciate that Israel is a Middle Eastern fortress of 21st century liberal democracy and human rights living in a region dominated by a seventh-century religion of conquest or submission.”