(Israel Government Press Office)
Ma’ariv notes the difficulties in moving or evacuating even a fairly small settlement outpost and asks: “Could someone stand up today and evacuate Imanuel, Kiryat Arba, Karnei Shomron, Beit-El, Ofra, Shilo or Alon Moreh?” The author avers: “No Israeli prime minister could deal with such an evacuation,” not even one from the center-left, and concludes: “The situation is irreversible and how.”
Yediot Aharonot condemns last week’s incident in which a young woman was attacked by a group of ultra-orthodox yeshiva students over her presumed sexual identity. The author says that “The conduct of her assailants shows that they did not act according to the laws of the Torah,” and adds: “They acted as they did in spite of their education, not because of it.”
Yisrael Hayom discusses the fallout from the Harpaz affair and suggests that the State Comptroller’s “report should be studied in all IDF schools since it is clear that even the senior military leadership is not made up of angels.” The author asserts that “Balances and brakes are needed at all levels,” and calls on Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to order an investigation “without delay.”
The Jerusalem Post notes that the Palestinian Authority is currently embroiled in a largely self-inflicted financial crisis so bad that it could lead to a popular explosion. The editor feels that “Instead of choosing a path of self-empowerment and accepting responsibility for their own fate, Palestinian leaders have opted yet again for the well-traversed road of self-victimization,” and worries that “Palestinian leaders in the West Bank believe they will succeed in deflecting growing anger and frustration on the Palestinian street and redirect toward Israel.”
Haaretz criticizes the government for barring Palestinian prisoners from taking classes through the Open University, and states that “This is a position that undermines the fundamental values of democracy, and it behooves the state to retract it as quickly as possible.”
[Shalom Yerushalmi, Ricki Siton and Yaakov Borovsky wrote today’s articles in Ma’ariv, Yediot Aharonot and Yisrael Hayom respectively.]
In ref to Yediot Aharonot: The human “animal” precedes the Torah by thousands if not millions of years. Rape is a “male” universal fundamental problem, a reminder of what is wrong with many so called “men”. As many people agree, it is a problem of power or control which is present in every patriarchal society all over the world.
The human species has not got to the next level yet!
ABBAS A LIBERTARIAN – NOT A NAZI ARAB TERRORIST MASTERMIND – or so he says.
Abbas defines himself as a libertarian on his Facebook account.
RAND PAUL in Israel – http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=298674
– Republican Senator tells Israeli audience it will be harder to be a friend to Israel if the US is “out of money.” … He said he was “all for gradualism”. He would start ending foreign aid to those countries who don’t act as allies towards Israel. (Would that defriending include a patriotic Israeli govt that rejects US govt pro-Arab policies?)
– The senator said that he was concerned the US was trying to win friends in the region by providing them with arms where you can have a situation down the line where Israel would have to face up against Egypt supplied with US state-of-the-art tanks. (Wow, who would have thought about that. Obviously not top US govt officials who swear eternal love to Israel but continue to arm the MB Egypt and Al Qaida in Syria.)
– He said that as far as aid to Israel is concerned, he is not suggesting disengagement or that the US should stop selling armaments, but said “it wouldn’t be a one-way street, it would be a sale, not a grant.” (Obviously, or US war industry would howl. But would Israel be given a choice to shop elsewhere or manufacture its own? Or would it be coerced? Shop here or we’ll vote against you at the UN.)
– Paul will only meet with PM Netanyau, President Peres, King Abdullah and President Abbas. (All four of them enthusiastically pro-State of Palestine. Settlers, who are at the center of the land dispute, do not have a voice. But did they ask for a meeting at all?)
(Rand Paul’s father, Ron Paul, had wide support from the left and from the libertarian right in the last Republican primaries. His views are gaining support in the US, and Israelis should pay attention to this man – particularly those opposed to partition.
Why does Haaretz believe that murderers of Jews should get a free education courtesy of the Jewish state? How does this constitute a democratic value?
HAAretz should be renamed the “Anti Zionist Pro Radical Arab Post”. Their writings are used by all the Anti Israelis and Anti Semites around the
world to justify their hate of Israel. It never ceases to amaze me how they can hurt their own country and feel good about it.