ISRAEL HEADLINES
Headlines and Editorials from the Hebrew Press
Thursday, May 15, 2008
HA’ARETZ
1. Baby and three women severely wounded in GRAD attack on Ashkelon mall. Olmert to Bush: Decision in Gaza close.
GOC INTELLIGENCE: ROCKETS ON BE'ER SHEVA WITHIN TWO YEARS.
2. STATE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE: MESSER LIKELY TO TESTIFY AGAINST OLMERT, AND NOT STAND TRIAL.
MA’ARIV
1. ISRAEL: CALM ON OUR TERMS – OR OPERATION IN GAZA.
Direct hit on Ashkelon mall bumped Bush visit from headlines. Results: 100 wounded, among them Avital Efjan and her two-year-old daughter Tair. Alarm system in city had been turned off – and was reactivated only after the firing.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Katyusha in Ashkelon. Mother and infant daughter in serious condition.
THUS ENDED VISIT TO MALL.
Dozens more wounded, including doctor in serious condition. Ashkelon residents: We're being abandoned. Senior security establishment sources: Major operation in Gaza – not soon.
[MAKOR RISHON-HATZOFEHwas unavailable today.]
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Ma'ariv asserts that, after yesterday's GRAD rocket hit on the busy Hutzot mall in Ashkelon, an extensive military operation in Gaza is inevitable: "As things looked last night, another step has been taken which will shortly lead to significant IDF forces deep inside the Gaza Strip".
Haaretz criticizes tacit governmental approval of what it terms creeping annexation by rightwing religious groups of parts of the Arab neighborhoods surrounding East Jerusalem, and comments that President Bush, as a close friend of the Israelis, is not permitted to stand on the sidelines while their government is playing with matches next to a barrel of explosives.
The Jerusalem Post states that in the Arab's view, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is not about borders. In a detailed review of the history of the Middle East in the last 90 years and of the Israeli-Arab conflict, the editor states that once the Palestinians declare their dispute with us is about borders, everything else will fall into place.
Yediot Ahronot claims that, "The Government has forgotten that it has a central mission: To safeguard the State's citizens and not try to satisfy the Americans, Egyptians and Europeans."
[Amir Rapoport and Alex Fishman wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronotand Ma'ariv, respectively. Makor Rishon-Hatzofehwas unavailable today.]
(Courtesy of the GPO)
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