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Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
Today’s issues: The quality of mercy, finding a solution for the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, Gazans are fed up with Hamas, and the meaningless Paris conference.
The Jerusalem Post is appreciative of Germany’s special relationship with Israel as well as its staunch support, but is nonetheless concerned by its stand on anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish hate crimes: “Germany should remain steadfast in the policy it has upheld for the last 70 years – a clear and decisive stand against any form of Jew hatred.”
Haaretz comments on the tragic result of the violent clashes Wednesday during the eviction of Umm al-Hiran’s Bedouin residents, which left two people dead, and asserts: “The urgency to demolish illegal homes of Israeli Arab citizens while the Amona settlers also face eviction is proof that the government is keen about placating the settlers, not necessarily equality before the law. It&rs quo;s as if there must be some sacred balance between Israeli citizens living for decades in an unrecognized village on state land, and Israeli citizens living in occupied territory that was clearly stolen from its owners.”
Yediot Aharonot contends that the Palestinians in Gaza no longer believe that their living conditions will ever improve, and asserts: “The fiery protests of the past few days are an uprising in the making and have exposed, for the first time, the potential of toppling the Hamas government from the inside.”
Israel Hayom discusses the futility of the Paris conference, and notes that “France has taken a discomfiting stance on Israel ever since 1967, when it sided with the Arabs and the Soviets on U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 and claimed that the resolution required Israeli withdrawal from all the territories won in the Six-Day War.” The author notes that “The hopes of the Palestinians that their state would be established in Paris this week, or at the very least that binding conclusions and timetables would be established, were a joke,” and is hopeful that “The incoming Trump administration could bring an end to attempts to solve the Palestinian problem through hollow international initiatives like the one that failed this week in Paris.”
[Alex Fishman and Zalman Shoval wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, respectively. |
