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Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
Today’s issues: Broadcast news, time for US pressure, an open letter to Richard Gere, and telegraphic reminders of reality.
The Jerusalem Post discusses the fate of Israel’s new public broadcasting-without-a-news division corporation, and states: “The compromise reached between [PM Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Finance Minister Moshe] Kahlon makes one wonder what all the fuss has been about over shutting down the IBA and replacing it with the IBC.” The editor believes that “The body that results from all this horse trading and countless hours of negotiations will probably not look much different from the IBA that we know,” and is hopeful that with the sorry saga now behind us, “it will free some time up for our leaders to actually govern.”
Haaretz notes that contrary to the initial euphoria of the Israeli right, it turns out that Trump’s policy is not fundamentally different from that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, and states: “Israeli supporters of the peace process have given up on the possibility of American deus emerging from a machine, magic formula in hand. But perhaps a U.S. president who boasts of his love of Israel, is equipped with business acumen and unburdened by the kind of opposition in Congress that Obama faced, can succeed where serious, eloquent statesmen have failed.”
Yediot Aharonot sends an open letter to Richard Gere, who, after a visit to the city of Hebron guided by Breaking the Silence activists, commented on the similarity of life in Hebron to that in the old American South, in which the author asserts: Human rights are an important issue. The Palestinians deserve welfare, self-government and prosperity. The problem is that their leadership doesn’t want a state alongside Israel, but rather instead of Israel. The problem is that their leadership prefers unstoppable incitement over education to reconciliation, mutual recognition and a compromise. Has it occurred to you to say something to them about their incitement? About the racism? About the anti-Semitism? About the rejectionism? Are they exempt from criticism?”
Israel Hayom comments on the recent release of a German-language telegram sent by Third Reich SS commander Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in November 1943, which was uncovered in the archives of Israel’s National Library, and states: “What is striking about this telegram is not its contents — which simply constitute yet further evidence of the warm relations between the Nazis and the mufti — but rather how similar its sentiments are to those regularly voiced today. Not in Germany, where one could face charges for such anti-Semitic rhetoric, but in the Arab world and Palestinian Authority.”
[Ben-Dror Yemini and Ruthie Blum wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, respectively
Today’s issues: Broadcast news, time for US pressure, an open letter to Richard Gere, and telegraphic reminders of reality.
The Jerusalem Post discusses the fate of Israel’s new public broadcasting-without-a-news division corporation, and states: “The compromise reached between [PM Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Finance Minister Moshe] Kahlon makes one wonder what all the fuss has been about over shutting down the IBA and replacing it with the IBC.” The editor believes that “The body that results from all this horse trading and countless hours of negotiations will probably not look much different from the IBA that we know,” and is hopeful that with the sorry saga now behind us, “it will free some time up for our leaders to actually govern.”
Haaretz notes that contrary to the initial euphoria of the Israeli right, it turns out that Trump’s policy is not fundamentally different from that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, and states: “Israeli supporters of the peace process have given up on the possibility of American deus emerging from a machine, magic formula in hand. But perhaps a U.S. president who boasts of his love of Israel, is equipped with business acumen and unburdened by the kind of opposition in Congress that Obama faced, can succeed where serious, eloquent statesmen have failed.”
Yediot Aharonot sends an open letter to Richard Gere, who, after a visit to the city of Hebron guided by Breaking the Silence activists, commented on the similarity of life in Hebron to that in the old American South, in which the author asserts: Human rights are an important issue. The Palestinians deserve welfare, self-government and prosperity. The problem is that their leadership doesn’t want a state alongside Israel, but rather instead of Israel. The problem is that their leadership prefers unstoppable incitement over education to reconciliation, mutual recognition and a compromise. Has it occurred to you to say something to them about their incitement? About the racism? About the anti-Semitism? About the rejectionism? Are they exempt from criticism?”
Israel Hayom comments on the recent release of a German-language telegram sent by Third Reich SS commander Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in November 1943, which was uncovered in the archives of Israel’s National Library, and states: “What is striking about this telegram is not its contents — which simply constitute yet further evidence of the warm relations between the Nazis and the mufti — but rather how similar its sentiments are to those regularly voiced today. Not in Germany, where one could face charges for such anti-Semitic rhetoric, but in the Arab world and Palestinian Authority.”
[Ben-Dror Yemini and Ruthie Blum wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, respectively |
