Yediot Aharonot says that "When a leader spoke of the fallen who did not die in vain, I saw before my eyes the officers’ course graduation photo. One out of every five from our graduating class was killed before the age of 30, most in the Yom Kippur War."
Ma’ariv ventures that "When the former Mossad Director warns about ‘a stupid attack’ by Israel on Iran, it is possible that he is raising the likelihood that such a scenario, paradoxically, will indeed occur."
Yisrael Hayom opines that "Our biggest, most moving innovation, the fruit of David Ben-Gurion’s brilliant mind, is the decision to unite Memorial Day and Independence Day. It is a 48-hour Israeli phenomenon shared by all."
The Jerusalem Post discusses Pakistan’s apparent involvement in the support network that allowing bin Laden to live undisturbed within its borders and its obdurate rejection of American requests for cooperation while simultaneously pocketing billions of dollars in American aid, and notes that “if Pakistani complicity in keeping bin Laden free for almost a decade after 9/11 is proven, the time will have come to put an end to Pakistani chutzpah – and American folly – by cutting the line that feeds the hand that, in turn, feeds al-Qaida and its offshoots.”
Haaretz comments on the proposal of bereaved families that Memorial Day fall one day earlier, leaving one ordinary day before Independence Day, and notes that “Separating the days would make it possible to mark each national event with the attention it deserves.”
[Ze’ev Tzachor, Shmuel Rosner and Yehoshua Weinstein wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma’ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]