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Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
Today’s issues: Undemocratic democrats, Israel is in no position to point a finger at Germany, Mohammad Bakri: enemy of the Palestinians, and peace, law, and repentance.
The Jerusalem Post is concerned that the rise in the popularity of US Senator Bernie Sanders signals an ominous change in Admerican politics with regard to that country’s instinctual support of the Jewish, and notes: “In the run-up to the 2016 elections, Sanders, the first Jewish presidential candidate to win a major party’s nominating contest, surrounded himself with people openly antagonistic to Israel.” The editor warns of waning Democrat support for Israel, and states: “the breakdown of bipartisan support for Israel has far-reaching implications.”
Haaretz discusses the shock of Jewish organizations worldwide at the success of the extreme-right Alternative for Germany in Sunday&r squo;s election, but notes that this shock cannot be expressed in a like manner by Israel: “to our great shame, Netanyahu’s Israel is part of the global trend of the ascendancy of the far right. And not merely part of it, but rather an advance guard of the trend: as in Hungary and in Poland, and to an extent in the United States, in Israel too this right is already in power.”
Yediot Aharonot discusses the anti-Israel incitement in Lebanon by Israeli-Arab filmmaker Mohammad Bakri, and declares: “With an official apartheid policy, Lebanon is the worst country in the world for Palestinians, but the Israeli Arab filmmaker couldn’t care less about the facts. His incitement is directed at Israel, because propagandists nurture deception—especially self-deception.” The author adds that Bakri didn’t go to Lebanon to improve his brothers’ situation, and declares: “Between working for Palestinian prosperity and inciting against Israel, Bakri—just like Hamas—has chosen incitement. That’s the only thing that matters, and to hell with the Palestinians.”
Israel Hayom discusses the Holy Days of the Hebrew month of Elul, a time of introspection designed first and foremost to give us time to think nonroutine thoughts, and declares: “Unless we understand the essence of peace in the circles that begin with the individual and continue outward, we will never understand how to make peace with others.”
[Ben-Dror Yemini and Pinchas Haliwa wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, respectively |
