Yediot Aharonot reminds its readers that "Throughout almost the entire Cold War, the Security Council was paralyzed, and also today it is helpless in the face of violations by one of the five permanent members, which have veto rights." The author believes that "Obama's weakness has allowed Putin to act like a thug. Putin openly and crudely broke the rules of the global order, and put Russia's neighbors and the entire West in a threatening reality that could deteriorate into global war."

Yisrael Hayom says that "From Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen's speech to the Arab League summit in Kuwait yesterday one could conclude that reconciliation with Hamas is much more important to the Palestinian leader than peace with Israel," and adds that in his "especially combative," remarks, Abu Mazen reiterated that the Palestinians "would never recognize Israel as a Jewish state." The author asserts: "On the basis of his Kuwait speech, Abu Mazen is still not a partner for peace."

Haaretz declares that the legal opinion prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs authorizing the transfer of the Triangle and the Wadi Ara regions from Israel to a Palestinian state, if and when one arises, “is unacceptable in principle,” and notes: “The foreign minister, and now his ministry as well, are effectively telling the state’s Arab citizens that they aren’t wanted in the State of Israel, and their citizenship is temporary and conditional.” The editor opines that the plan “has a single overarching goal: turning Israel into a pure ethnic and religious state,” and asserts: “Both the plan and the legal opinion that authorizes it must be shelved immediately. The Arab minority will continue to be part of Israel, and the state must do everything in its power to integrate it, instead of trying to push it out.”

The Jerusalem Post informs its readers of the Arab League rejection of the call to consider Israel as a Jewish state, and notes that this is “essentially a repeat of the second of the ‘three noes’ issued at the 1967 Arab League summit at Khartoum.” The editor believes that “with a little good will on both sides,” and if the Palestinians “would be willing to support the concept of Israel as a ‘Jewish state’ on condition that its ‘Jewishness’ is defined narrowly as a state that is guaranteed a Jewish majority, a definition many Israelis would be willing to sign off on as well,” there might nevertheless be a way forward, but notes that if the Palestinians are unwilling to concede to this fact, “it suggests that their nefarious intention is to perpetuate the struggle against a Jewish state within any borders.”