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Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
Today’s issues: The lesson of Tisha Be’av, the PM is sawing off the branch he sits on, the resounding failure on the Temple Mount, and a perilous situation.
The Jerusalem Post discusses the import of Tisha Be’av, the commemoration of the destruction of both Temples, and warns: “With the return of Jews to their land, the central message of the day should shift from remorse for what was to realization that history can repeat itself. Jews lost their sovereignty. There is no surety that this will not happen again.”
Haaretz slams the prime minister for cynically pandering to his voters his call for the pardon of the IDF soldier Elor Azaria, who was found guilty of manslaughter by eight military judges in two courts, and notes that even though the judges left no room for doubt regarding Azaria’s blatant violation of the IDF’s rules of engagement, the prime minister did not hesitate t o propose a pardon “for a person who undermined the ethos of the army that defends the country Netanyahu leads. One by one, Netanyahu is sawing off the governmental branches on which both a democratic state and his own government rest.”
Yediot Aharonot comments that the Waqf’s decision to resume prayers at the Temple Mount has not solved the crisis of the past two weeks, and argues that “The solution is now in the leaders’ hands.” The author points out that Trump couldn’t care less about all of this, and states that three unadventurous leaders – in Israel, in Jordan and in the PA— “are forced to dig their heels in against their own will, because they are afraid of the radicals in their society. And this is where things stand.”
Isr ael Hayom examines the Iranian and Turkish attempts to fan the flames on the Temple Mount, and remarks that “the ones who should be most concerned by Turkey’s and Iran’s growing involvement in the holy site and in the Palestinian and Israeli Arab populations are the Arabs themselves, and even more so, the Palestinians. It is not the best interests of the Palestinians or Israeli Arabs that guide Iran and Turkey, but the interests of the Iranian regime and the Turkish president, which are distinct from the interests of the people they rule.”
[Alex Shifman and Eyal Zisser wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, respectively.
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