(Government Press Office)
Yediot Aharonot asserts that "The new Berlin Wall is not the separation fence, but rather the wall of embargo and isolation that the majority of the Muslim world imposed on Israel since its inception." The author contends that "As long as this wall exists, the sides will be unable to know one another and it will be impossible to overcome the preconceptions that accompany the conflict."
Ma'ariv maintains that "The Palestinian Authority is once again waging a terror campaign against us: Verbal terrorism and incitement to violence." The author poses the question, "Suppose that you were about to enter into a business partnership with someone, and while this was happening, he instigated acts of aggression: Falsely accusing you of terrible acts, turning your neighbors against you, and even making false claims against you to the police. Would you still continue to enter into the partnership?"
Yisrael Hayom discusses the capture, yesterday, of the merchant vessel, Francop, which was transporting military ordnance from Iran to Hezbollah, and asks, "Why does such a blatant violation of UN Security Council Resolution #1701 not make it clear to the enlightened countries in the UN that, under these circumstances, Israel's flights over Lebanon are legitimate acts of self-defense. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Nasrallah don't even blush when they are caught with the goods. The enlightened world considers it self-evident that the obligation to honor UN decisions does not apply to them."
The Jerusalem Post discusses the letter last Tuesday from State Prosecutor Moshe Lador to Justice Minister Ya'akov Neeman regarding Neeman's proposal to split the job of the attorney general in two, and states that "Neeman may be wary of dismissing Lador, lest he fan the smoldering flames of opposition. Yet for the sake of proper administration, Lador should quit or be sent home."
Haaretz discusses the conflict in the Justice Ministry arising from the proposal to split the job of the attorney general in two, and the letter on this issue, unprecedented in both form and content, from State Prosecutor Moshe Lador to Justice Minister Ya'akov Neeman, and finds that "An essential component of the legal system, without which Israeli democracy cannot survive, is at stake." Fearful that the Justice Minister ". . . was appointed to the cabinet at the behest of a party chairman suspected of criminal activity, as if he were one of Avigdor Lieberman's clerks," the editor avers that "The man who is supposed to be the head of the justice system is instead waging all-out war on it from the inside."
[Eldar Beck, Nadav Haetzni, and Dan Margalit wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma'ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectfully.]