Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
| 2 July 2018
Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press |
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| Today’s issues: Syrian refugees, the Hungarian prime minister’s visit, principles vs. interests, and how things in the north can quickly grow south. |
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| The Jerusalem Post discusses the intensifying refugee crisis in Syria that has increased calls for Israel to allow some of the refugees into the country, and declares: “the Syrian civil war is not a problem for Israel to solve. Both the US and Russia need to play a central role in dealing with the challenges they themselves have helped create: the US by leaving a vacuum and Russia by filling it. It is ultimately their responsibility to ensure that the areas where the refugees have gathered are safe from shelling and to help them rebuild their homes inside Syria. Israel’s responsibility is to be moral and ethical but also not to be reckless.” |
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| Haaretz www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/show-me-who-your-guests-are-1.6224744 comments on the forthcoming visit to Israel of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban despite the shock expressed by Israel’s left and the willingness of its right to turn a blind eye, and asserts: “Israel is an honored member of the club of nations controlled by the extreme right.” The editor declares: “The Israeli government is no better than those governments that are worthy of being boycotted,” and adds: “The bitter truth is that the guests and the hosts deserve each other.” |
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| Yediot Aharonot discusses the price Israel paid to get the Polish government to remove the criminal aspect from the law against attributing responsibility to the Polish people for the Nazis’ crimes during World War II, leaving it a declarative law with no practical meaning, and states: “Israel had an interest to uproot the law that turned telling the truth about the Holocaust into a criminal offense.” The author believes that that the price Israel had to pay, signing off on a joint statement minimizing Polish role in the Holocaust, is a price that it is sometimes necessary to pay in order to serve Israel’s bigger picture interests, and declares: “The question of what the Poles did during the Holocaust will not be determined with a statement made by prime ministers. Prime ministers come and go. The historical truth will forever stand.” |
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| Israel Hayom discusses the highly volatile situation on the Golan Heights resulting from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s intention of retaking the strongholds stretching along the Jordanian and Israeli borders held by the rebel forces, and notes that while Assad is yet to initiate a large-scale attack, “It is in Israel’s interest to get through the next few weeks without military entanglement in the north. Once the dust settles, Israel will once again be dealing with one person in charge.” |
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