July 29 Headlines
Sunday
HA’ARETZ
1. US TO INCREASE SECURITY ASSISTANCE TO ISRAEL.
Israel to receive $30 billion in coming decade as compensation for weapons deal designed to strengthen Saudi Arabia.
2. "IDIOCY AND OVER-MOTIVAION."
Thus senior IDF officer defined conduct of officer who ran amok with his soldiers in Dahariya.
MAKOR RISHON-HATZOFEH
1. LEBANESE NEWSPAPER: ONE OF THE ABDUCTEES IS DEAD.
Thus arises from report in A-Nahar that quoted German diplomats who, following closed talks with sources close to Hezbollah, understood that one of the abductees – Regev or Goldwasser – has died in captivity.
2. TERRORIST ELEMENTS: WE WILL ELIMINATE FAYYAD.
Armed militants outraged over his opposition to armed struggle.
MA’ARIV
1. Holocaust survivors waiting for money that will rescue them from plight.
LOOK THEM IN THE EYES.
Two months ago, PM promised aid for tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors who live in grinding poverty. But since then nothing has moved (…).
2. NIS 9 BILLION AGAINST IRAN.
President Bush agreed with Olmert: Security assistance to be greatly increased due to Iranian threat.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. "ONE OF THE ABDUCTEES IS NOT ALIVE."
Thus reports Lebanese newspaper A-Nahar. Goldwasser and Regev families: For us, they're alive.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Haaretz discusses the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, and claims that everyone in Israel already knows the solution: "Anyone with eyes in his head knows the land will be divided between the Israelis and the Palestinians, along borders similar to the pre-1967 lines."
The Jerusalem Post declares that it is the moderate Arab states who should be leading the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. Claiming that the Arab states have been unwilling to lead the Palestinians toward peace with Israel, the editor asserts that "the West should be pushing all the Arab states, not just Egypt and Jordan, to begin normalizing relations with Israel and to abandon positions inconsistent with Israel's right to exist. It should go without saying that the West itself should be unabashedly rejecting such positions as well."
Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh believes that the Finance Ministry could have averted last week's, "completely unnecessary," one-day public sector strike if it had been ready to compromise sooner.
Yediot Ahronot laments that, "It seems that we have lost the desire to understand the Arab and Islamic worlds," and regrets that, "We know very little about politics and daily life in the world around us and are raising the next generation of statesmen, intelligence personnel and journalists on a diet of Farfur the mouse and Nahoul the bee."
Ma'ariv suggests that President Shimon Peres could help rebuild and redefine the Presidency by reaching out to, "the entire Jewish People, from all streams and all communities."
[Dror Ze'evi and Aliza Lavi wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronot and Ma'ariv, respectively.]
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