1. US REPRIMANDS ISRAELI AMBASSADOR OVER EVACUATION OF PALESTINIANS FROM SHEIKH JARRAH.
2. "I AM NOT SORRY AND HAVE NO REGRETS."
Terrorist Khaled Abu Osaba, who perpetrated 1978 bus massacre, permitted to attend Fatah conference in Bethlehem.
MA’ARIV
1. Interview that caused storm: Man in charge of expulsion speaks.
"ORGANIZATIONS THAT ASSIST FOREIGN WORKERS WANT TO DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL."
Tziki Sela, commander of "Oz" unit for deporting foreign workers, fires in all directions. On demonstrators against deportation operation: "They're criminals and must be condemned." On intention to separate workers from their children: "Woman from 'Survivor' separated from her son for three months. Did anybody say anything? On deportation by force: "I appeal to the foreign workers. If you don't leave nicely, you'll leave not nicely, with trauma."
YEDIOT AHRONOT
1. Barak trying to prevent explosion at party conference this evening.
LABOR ON VERGE OF SPLIT.
Labor Chairman losing support of majority of faction over his insistence on changing party constitution. Even Yitzhak Herzog is threatening: I will boycott the conference.
2. GESTURE TO GAY YOUTH: PM TO VISIT MURDER SITE.
YISRAEL HAYOM
1. Due to disease: Ha'emek Hospital reduces patients' visits.
JUMP IN FLU MORTALITY WORLDWIDE: 338 DIED IN ONE WEEK.
2. COMPROMISING OR CRUMBLING?
Labor Party conference due to convene today against background of strong opposition to Chairman Barak's initiative to amend party constitution. Yuli Tamir: Barak's adviser called me 'garbage can'."
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
Yediot Ahronot contends that Education Minister Gideon Saar's instruction to remove the word 'nakba' from Arab sector textbooks is an indication that he feels threatened by the term, "despite the fact that Jews are the majority that controls everything in the country." The author speculates that many Israelis view Israeli Arabs as hostile and are motivated by, "a syndrome that was left behind from the trauma of the Holocaust, our collective fear of appearing weak."
Ma'ariv says that, "The mass demonstrations in Teheran and their repression symbolize a great weakness of Teheran's leaders, a weakness which characterizes every non-democracy: Not basing itself on the participation of the people and as a result of this, the opening of a destructive gap between those who govern and those who are governed. From within those gaps revolutions flourish."
Yisrael Hayom, on the background of today's celebration of the 15th of Av, says that, "After trying days of destruction and hate, there is a need for a recess, a relaxing of the continual hostility between people, and between ideologies. There is a need for love."
The Jerusalem Post discusses the Fatah sixth General Assembly, which opened in Bethlehem yesterday, more than 20 years after the last Fatah convention, and notes despairingly that "Israel's government and the new American administration are seeking to create a climate for substantive progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The Fatah conference represents an opportunity for Abbas and his colleagues to assure the watching world, and emphasize to their own constituency, that their goal is real peace - that they are committed to the path of viable reconciliation with Israel. Sadly and counterproductively for all sides, the indications thus far are quite different."
Haaretz calls on the government to allow the families evicted from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem to return home, and states that "A democratic state that strives for peace and justice simply has no right to uproot families who became refugees in 1948." The editor adds that "The government must immediately return the Palestinian residents to their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and cancel the eviction orders that have been issued against additional houses."
[Gaby Salomon, Nadav Ayal London and Dror Edar wrote today’s articles in Yediot Ahronot, Ma'ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]
(Courtesy of Israel GPO) 
