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Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
| 22 MAY 2019
Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press |
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| Today’s issues: The UN’s whitewash of Hezbollah, a watchdog ready made for Netanyahu, no honoring of sex offender at state-sponsored religious festival, and: the US’s Middle East strategy might be fraying. |
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| The Jerusalem Post is shocked by the comments of United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis, made after his meeting this week with Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem, in which he expressed his gratitude to the Hezbollah leader for his ‘substantive’ comments and for giving him a copy of his book, which the UN coordinator thought was ‘necessary reading,’ and declares that Hezbollah “was legitimized in its meeting with the UN.” The editor asserts: “The UN has been systematically derelict in its duties in Lebanon and Kubis’s meeting is just the latest demonstration,” and adds: “The continued violation of Resolution 1701 is also on the UN. We recommend that UN Secretary-General António Guterres take action immediately to ensure that Kubis does his job – stopping Hezbollah, not praising it.” |
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| Haaretz contends that the governing coalition’s choice of Matanyahu Englman for the position of state comptroller “is another step in a deliberate process of undermining the comptroller’s standing as part of the broader assault on Israel’s system of checks and balances that the right, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, is spearheading,” and points out: “A strong, independent state comptroller is one of the civil service’s key gatekeepers.” |
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| Yediot Aharonot criticizes the participation of convicted sex offender and leader of the ‘Shuvu Banim’ faction of the Breslov Hassidic movement Rabbi Eliezer Berland in the state-funded Lag B’Omer festivities on Mt. Meron, and calls on the organizers to stand up to the rabbi’s bullies and threats and stop him from entering the festival’s compound. The author states: “It is simple choice. It’s just a question of deciding to do the right thing,” and adds: “Not doing the right thing is a mark of shame on the organizers and on all of us.” |
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| Israel Hayom discusses the reasons behind Egypt’s decision to suspend its participation in MESA (the Middle East Strategic Alliance), the U.S.-Saudi initiative to establish an ‘Arab NATO’ to counter Iran, and states: “The bottom line is that el-Sissi and the senior Egyptian leadership fear that remaining in MESA means more risk than reward for Egypt.” The author believes that given Israel’s growing alliance with Saudi Arabia Over the past decade, “Egypt’s decision to pull out of MESA should give it cause to reconsider,” and adds: “Given that Egypt, the Arab world’s biggest and militarily most powerful state and its traditional leader, has clearly indicated its lack of confidence in the Saudi leadership, Israel should urgently reexamine its strategy in this regard.” |
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| [Shlomo Pyuterkovsky and Jonathan Ariel wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot and Israel Hayom, respectively.] |
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