Ma’ariv cites a recent case in the US, in which an episode of the irreverent animated satire South Park was modified so as to avoid mentioning the prophet Muhammad in response to death threats against the show’s creators on an extremist website. The author, the Los Angeles Times television critic, protests that "Free speech was taken hostage," and asks "If one group of crazy people claiming religious outrage is allowed to use the threat of violence as a way to control the public dialogue, what’s to stop every crazy person with an objection or a grudge or a website and too much time on their hands from doing the same?" The paper believes that satire, "by the act of offending, forces society to contemplate its definition of offensiveness and, more important, acceptance. It operates, by its very nature, at the far end of free speech. A good satirist steps over the line all the time; a great satirist moves or even erases it. Inevitably, mistakes are made, both in decisions to say and air certain things and to avoid or delete them. People are fined or fired, rules and guidelines are modified." The author concludes that "Airwaves are just as vital and fragile as airspace."
Yisrael Hayom comments on the internal situation in the Likud Party, specifically the rivalry between Party Chairman Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing challenger, Moshe Feiglin. The author avers that "If politics was a laboratory, I would suggest that the Likud test Feiglin by giving him the party leadership and watching his defeat in the elections," and claims that "I do not know any Likud voter who would vote for Feiglin if he led the party." But the paper admits that "Life is not an experimental farm. It needs rules for the political game. Even though there is no way to prevent Feiglin and his supporters from registering for the Likud, he has no place in the Likud led by Netanyahu."