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HAARETZ
1. CONSTRUCTION ON WEST BANK CONTINUING DESPITE OLMERT'S PROMISE.
Mobile home neighborhood being built in Eli in addition to homes in Maskit in the Jordan Valley.
2. AFTER LEADERS' MEETING: CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS ON JERUSALEM.
3. FEAR OF SKIRMISH PREVENTED ARREST.
British police refrained from arresting Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Doron Almog in 2005 due to concern over clash with his guards on plane,
MAKOR RISHON-HATZOFEH
1. HAMAS ASSESSMENT: ISRAELIS BUYING PALESTINIAN REAL ESTATE.
Following cancellation of PA land sale law, investors from around the world have begun buying Palestinian land and terrorist groups believe that foreign investors are buying land for Israelis. Ministers in Fayyad government: This is move to encourage investors; land isn't being sold to Israelis.
2. STATE COMPTROLLER CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT DEALINGS WITH SDEROT.
MAARIV
1. New record in battle between President and State Comptroller.
PERES TO COMPTROLLER: YOU WILL NOT ENTER PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE.
Peres refusing to allow Lindenstrauss and his staff to hold review inside President's Residence, and claims R11; I am out of bounds. State Comptroller: You are, the Residence is not.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Concern in Israel: Threat from Gaza increasing.
HAMAS OBJECTIVE: ATTACK UAV.
Security sources estimate: Hamas will try to use know-how from Hezbollah, which has already used UAV's to deliver bombs. Israel outraged: Egypt allowing Iranian experts to infiltrate into Gaza.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot notes the silent and, so far, leak-proof negotiations now being held between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The editors maintain that to reap the fruit of a permanent settlement, what is needed is a "Ben-Gurion" leader who has "sufficiently ripened.". The paper contends that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may just be that leader.
Ma'ariv contends that European criticism towards Israel does not derive from anti-Semitism, but rather because, "They simply do not comprehend life under an existential threat."
Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh accuses Israel's opposition parties and the general public of indifference to the ongoing negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, opining that, "The responsibility for the disastrous results will be laid on those who did it as well as on those who were silent." |