Monday

HA’ARETZ

1. OLMERT IN US: IRAN WILL NOT HAVE A BOMB.

Olmert-Bush meeting on Wednesday: Will discuss stepped up efforts to block Iran's nuclear program.  Syrian decision: Will dispatch Deputy Foreign Minister to conference and will raise future of Golan Heights.  Livni – Golan Heights not on agenda.  Joint statement: Discussions continued yesterday on Israeli-Palestinian joint document.

MA’ARIV

1. OLMERT AND BARAK: JOINT STATEMENT NOT NECESSARY.

PM's and DM's eyes on President's speech.  Last night: After meeting with Livni at Condoleeza Rice's home, Palestinians declared "explosion in negotiations."

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. PM to appeal to representatives of dozens of Arab countries.

OLMERT: LET US UNITE AGAINST IRAN.

US President to call for accelerated negotiations on establishing Palestinian state without harming Israel's security.

2. COMPENSATION FOR RESERVISTS HARMED BY FILM "JENIN, JENIN."

Claimed in court suit: Film – slander.  Agreed to receive compensation of NIS 40,000 in framework of compromise agreement.

3. WORLD CUP LUCK.

Easy draw for Israel in [2010 World Cup] preliminaries: Will play against Greece, Switzerland, Latvia, Moldova and Luxemburg.

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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

Both papers are critical of Israel's political leaders ahead of the Annapolis Conference:

Yediot Ahronot compares the Annapolis meeting to the 1938 Munich conference, at which the editors claim that Czechoslovakia was, "gang raped".  The editors opine that the difference between British Prime Minister Chamberlain and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is that Chamberlain abandoned a distant country while Prime Minister Olmert is abandoning his own.

Ma'ariv complains that Defense Minister, "Ehud Barak proclaims that he wants peace, but finds justifications for settlement outposts, which torpedo the chance of two states and turn us into a bi-national state.  And we do not have 22 countries."

[Elyakim Haetzni and Gabi Bar Gil wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronotand Ma'ariv, respectively.]