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Yediot Aharonot asserts that "There is no connection, not even a weak one, between the recommendations of the report of the committee to limit cartelization in the economy and price levels. To present the committee’s recommendations as a solution to high prices – is to deceive."
Ma’ariv discusses an "Independence paradox." The author suggests that "An Iranian nuclear bomb could place Israel in an existential danger for the first time since 1948. In the Holocaust, the Jewish People’s wide dispersion throughout the world saved it from annihilation. Does, paradoxically, its centralization in the Israeli-Jewish State place it before a potential possibility of fatal nuclear strike? We should not avoid such hard questions on the eve of our 64th Independence Day celebrations."
Yisrael Hayom remarks that "There are those who claimed last night that stopping the flow of [Egyptian] gas to Israel is solely a ‘business dispute’. One need not be a prophet in order to predict events Egypt since the Tahrir revolution. Under Mubarak it would not have happened."
The Jerusalem Post believes that the frequent and ugly brawls on Israel’s soccer fields result from a steady deterioration of social solidarity combined with a total disregard for normative behavior. The editor states that “haughty disregard for normative behavior is not limited to the soccer field. It is a symptom of a society that has become increasingly egotistical,” and declares: “The best way to combat this trend is to regain the values of sportsmanship and solidarity.”
Haaretz terms the government’s refusal to evacuate the Migron outpost, in flagrant disregard of the ruling of the High Court of Justice, as “The Israeli government’s badge of shame,” and states that the behavior of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and most of his ministers “recalls that of a career criminal who is undaunted by condemnation or punishment”. The editor asserts: “If Netanyahu feels he lacks the political power to obey the High Court’s directives he must dissolve the government and demand an electoral mandate for its peace and settlement policies.”
[Sever Plocker, Amos Gilboa and Boaz Bismuth wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma’ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]