Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press
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Summary of editorials from the Hebrew press 3/9

  • 3/9/2015
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    The Jerusalem Post states: “This campaign season has been one of the most uneventful and uninspiring in recent memory. The days when voters gathered to raptly watch the party election TV ads, party volunteers jammed intersections handing out flyers, and huge banners dotted the country’s landscape are largely of a bygone era,” and is hopeful “that in the final week of campaigning, the country springs to life from its malaise, with meaningful debate and careful consideration of the candidates.”
    Haaretz disagrees with an IDF decision that reduces the size of the military firing zone in the Jordan Valley in favor of expanding the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim, while at the same time evacuating of hundreds of Palestinian families from the same area and notes that this “once again raises the question of the supervision and oversight of the exploitation of these areas.” The editor declares: “the ease with which the IDF gives up areas it defines as essential in order to serve the construction of settlements, which are defined by international law as illegal, turns it into an active partner in carrying out a controversial policy,” and asserts: “The time has come for the State Comptroller to get to the heart of the matter of the firing zones, examine their necessity and the extent to which they are in use, and propose guidelines for them that will take into account the needs of Palestinian residents.”
    Yediot Aharonot refers to the ‘concession document,’ in which PM Netanyahu seemingly agrees to various concessions to the Palestinians, including return to the 1967 borders, and states that “If the current election campaign didn’t look the way it does, and if we hadn't all been helplessly swept into a swamp where one can no longer identify who is who and who is in favor of what, the 'concessions document' . . . could have actually been one of the more encouraging revelations in this election campaign.”
    Yisrael Hayom believes that recent upheavals in Arab countries, moderate and extreme alike, “has resulted in an unprecedented low in the way these regimes now approach the Palestinian issue,” and states: “The crises in Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, and Syria, as well as the Iranian threat looming over the Sunni Arab states, are a more urgent priority for the Arab League's members -- more urgent even than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
    Globes op-ed was not available today.
    [Ariela Ringel Hoffman and Daniel Siryoti wrote today's articles in Yediot Aharonot and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]