(Israel Government Press Office)

Yisrael Hayom asserts: "If, in the end, they talk and talk and talk some more and nothing comes out of the contacts, the sanctions that have been rescinded will not be resumed, to say nothing of new sanctions that will not be imposed." The author asks: "What is Barack Obama doing to his country's interests?" and replies: "He is losing Egypt. He did not oust Iran's vassal in Syria. The Gulf States no longer trust the American umbrella… He is abandoning Saudi Arabia." However, the paper believes that “It is not too late for the West to set two basic conditions for a six-month interim agreement: The freezing of the Iranians' uranium enrichment activity and the dismantling of a significant section of the initiative in exchange for thawing out frozen funds and perhaps the lifting of some secondary sanction."

The Jerusalem Post agrees with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the agreement considered this weekend in Geneva “‘a very bad deal,’” and notes that members of the US Congress, as well as the French and Saudi representatives at the talks, concur with this sentiment. The editor states: “Thankfully, the proposed nuclear deal was not signed in Geneva this weekend,” and adds: “We hope the criticism voiced by Netanyahu, the French, the Saudis and Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the US has compelled members of the P5+1 to reconsider their priorities in negotiating with the Iranians.”

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Ma'ariv discusses US Secretary of State John Kerry's recent remarks in Israel in which he warned of a third intifada if Israel is not more forthcoming in the peace process and says: "He thereby recognizes that violence is an understood part of the DNA of the Palestinians in particular and the Arabs in general. He looks around him and sees violence running amok in almost every part of the Middle East." The author adds: "Kerry accepts this as basic and agrees that whenever the Palestinians do not get what they want, they turn to violence. This is the condescending and racist Western approach that does not at all care when Arabs kill Arabs or when they kill Jews. But woe if a Jew kills an Arab. These remarks of Kerry's only encourage the Palestinians to harden their positions in the negotiations and increase the violence." The paper claims that "The impression one gets from the interview is that Kerry regards us as children who must be taught what is right for them and what is wrong," and adds: "The heart of our problem is that we cannot tell him to his face: Go home! We are too dependent on the US. However, let us not forget that Kerry, as of now, does not represent all of the US."

Yediot Aharonot says: "From Netanyahu's point-of-view, the news regarding the limping negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians is bad, very bad," because, "The US, and there is no other way to put it, is charging the Israeli side with full responsibility for the stalemate in the talks." The author suggests: "The worse news, from Netanyahu's point-of-view, is related to what is going on in the Geneva talks about the Iranian nuclear issue, in which as a result of the agreement that will be made, the international community is liable to force on Israel an outline for resolving the conflict with the Palestinians."

Haaretz calls on Israel to change its approach to the treatment of illegal African migrants, and asserts: “Israel must treat African migrants humanely.” The editor states that those migrants “already in Israel must be treated in accordance with Jewish and democratic values,” and declares: “They must be allowed to work and enjoy basic rights so they can live here under humane circumstances until they can return to their countries of origin.”