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Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
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| 25 March 2018
Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
Today’s issues: Denying Jewish history, the past belongs to the public, stop groveling and let the IDF win, and a profligate potpourri of problems. |
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| The Jerusalem Post comments on the Palestinian intent to use UN institutions to hijack the Jewish people’s national history, and suggests this should make “any self-respecting government question whether Mahmoud Abbas really is a proponent of peace as he claims.” The editor asserts that the Palestinians “are not interested in a dialogue or negotiations with Israel,” and states: “They can try to steal Jews’ identity and history, but that will not advance their cause of statehood. They should also remember that they are not the first to try to erase Jews’ national identity and ultimately fail. All they have to do is look at Jewish history.” |
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| Haaretz praises the government decision to open the archives of documents concerning the missing Yemenite children and the aliyah of Jews from Morocco in the 1950s to the public, and calls on the government to “adapt the ‘archive regulations’ to the spirit of the age so the default for any archival document will be to release it, not conceal it from the public.” |
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| Yediot Aharonot claims that the state comptroller’s report on Operation Protective Edge, which was released last week, and argues that it is “an erroneous report, which fails to understand the essence of the war, weakens the IDF, puts soldiers at risk and even helps increase the damage to the civilian population on both sides rather than reduce it.” The author asserts: “Israel doesn’t have to grovel to the international legal system, which is using an irrelevant war law codex,” and declares: “Instead, it can lead the legal handling of modern terrorism and promote an update of the war law to adapt it to reality.” |
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| Israel Hayom discusses last week’s Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, which was held in Jerusalem under official Israeli government auspices, and notes: “The Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism was once a focused and supereffective coordinating body in the fight against Jew-hatred, but some of that focus has been lost.” The author believes that “the conference conveners couldn’t decide on what to focus this year, so they turned the conference into a profligate potpourri of anti-Semitic problems,” and states: “Israeli tax dollars might have been better spent and the real fight against global anti-Semitism better served had the Global Forum been more focused on a single or several key issues.” |
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| [Amiram Levin and David M. Weinberg wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, respectively.] |
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