Feb. 26 Headlines
Tuesday
HA’ARETZ
1. CONCERN IN STATE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE OVER HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CRITICISM.
Senior Justice Ministry source: Attorney General Mazuz will not resign even if High Court of Justice rejects Katsav plea bargain today.
2. IN THE END, THE HARSH PICTURES CAME FROM SDEROT.
3. SURPRISE: BANK OF ISRAEL GOVERNOR LOWERED INTEREST RATES BY 0.5%.
According to economic assessments, Fisher risking inflation in order to ensure continued growth.
4. STUDIES: CHILDREN OF OVERSEAS EX-PATS DETACHING FROM ISRAEL.
Israeli who lives in Paris: Israeli community is a fiction. The children are like those of other immigrants.
5. AND NOW – RAIDS ON REFUGEE SHELTERS.
250 ARRESTED IN Tel Aviv in wake of PM's order to expel infiltrators who lack UN protection.
MAKOR RISHON-HATZOFEH
1. PM in Japan – MKs utilized his absence to speak freely.
SENIOR KADIMA FIGURES TO OLMERT: "DON'T TOUCH JERUSALEM."
Minister Rafi Eitan: "Palestinians must be denied foothold in the capital." Rivlin: There are negotiations over Jerusalem. Schneller: Permitted to discuss peripheral neighborhoods.
2. SURPRISE: FISHER LOWERS INTEREST RATES BY 0.5%.
3. THE MARCH THAT WASN'T.
Failure of Hamas initiative to deploy human chain in Gaza Strip.
MA’ARIV
1. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MY BROTHER?
Kassam caught ten-year-old Yossi and his younger sister Maria on the lawn.
2. DEAL OF THEIR LIVES.
This morning: High Court of Justice to decide whether to approve or invalidate controversial Katsav plea.
3. FISHER LOWERS INTEREST RATES BY 0.5%.
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Today: High Court of Justice to decide whether or not to approve Katsav plea.
JUDGMENT DAY.
2. KASSAM ON THE CHILDREN.
Yossi Haimov, 10, bled while in his eight-year-old sister's arms after Kassam hit the yard of their Sderot home. Surgeons worked for three hours to save his wounded hand.
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Ma'ariv says that, "Despite opposition in the name of separatism by Arab MKs, thousands are volunteering monthly for National Service. This is a deserving slap in the face to the leadership, and also a chance for integration."
The Jerusalem Post ponders the persistence of anti-Semitism, reflected in the discussions at the MFA's Global Forum, which ended on Monday after two days of discussions. The editor finds, however, that initiatives adopted at the Forum are not likely to dramatically increase activism against or awareness of anti-Semitism in the near future, and concludes that a world stage is the place to fight bigotry in all forms, starting with the oldest and most destructive of prejudices.
Haaretz states that while sanctions against Iran currently being discussed by the Security Council show do reflect an international willingness to cooperate in the face of the Iranian atom, this is only because of the weakness of the sanctions. However, with the US currently engrossed in the race for the presidency, it is not realistic to expect the world to embark now on a war for which, in its opinion, the time is not yet ripe. The editor by stating that "Israel's hope that international elements will deal with the Iranian atom for their own sake and spare Israel difficult decisions is liable to turn out to have been an illusion".
Yediot Ahronot refers to yesterday's Hamas-organized protest in Gaza and asks, "Could this be the first spark of popular opposition to violence?" and "Could it be that even Hamas's leadership has started to understand that one good protest is worth a thousand rockets?"
Makor Rishon-Hatzofeh claims that "Israel betrays its own allies" instead of nurturing and protecting them and provides the example of Israel's treatment of the South Lebanese Army. The editors say that one should not wonder at the process of fundamentalism and nationalism amongst Israel's minorities, who are intelligent enough to read the writing…on the wall: It is not worthwhile being on the side of the Zionists."
[B. Michael and Ali Zahalkah wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronotand Ma'ariv, respectively.]
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