Yediot Aharonot believes that "If the Iranians are determined and if they apply their keen minds in order to fool the entire world, they will have a nuclear installation. No court will help. According to current data, and the emphasis is on current, the Americans do not want to mix it up with the Iranians and the Israelis know that without America it will be impossible to really hit the Iranians well, if at all." The author adds: "The conclusion, as of now: Within a short time Iran will go nuclear and endanger the peace of the world, certainly the existence of the State of Israel. Instead of thinking about using force, maybe, just maybe, there is room to think about using our heads: How will the State of Israel exist and live in the shadow of a nuclear Iran? What will we say? What will we do?"
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Ma\’ariv comments on the Egyptian presidential election, which began yesterday, and reminds its readers, "One must remember that relations with Israel in particular, and foreign policy in general, do not top the Egyptian voter\’s list of concerns." The author believes that domestic, socio-economic issues are on most voters\’ minds as they elect a president for what is being termed Egypt\’s \’Second Republic\’ and suggests that as far as Israel is concerned, "while none of the candidates is especially fond of us or has praised relations with us, none of them holds that abrogating the peace treaty and going to war with Israel will solve the \’Second Republic\’s problems either."
Yisrael Hayom criticizes Turkey\’s decision to issue arrest warrants and indictments for senior IDF officers involved in the seizure of the Mavi Marmara two years ago. The author believes that, "Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not interested putting relations back on track," and suggests he took this step at the current time in order to bolster his regional stature: "As is customary in anti-Semitic circles, eastern as well as western, setting a fire vis-à-vis relations with the Jews is always effective for rulers like Erdogan." The paper avers that "Erdogan has become an enemy to any compromise and relaxation of tensions in the Middle East, certainly regarding Israel," and ventures that Israel-Turkey relations will not improve as long as Erdogan is in power.
The Jerusalem Post comments on the Histadrut (Israel\’s trade union organization) elections held on May 22: "The question never was whether incumbent Histadrut Chairman Ofer Eini would win, but by how much. We, as a society, paid a great deal for over a year to foot Eini’s hefty reelection bill. Over the past year, the Histadrut declared a plethora of labor disputes, many of which ripened into full-blown walkouts. The end of the campaign and the ostensible restoration of serenity in the Histadrut’s headquarters offer what is perhaps the best opportunity to give renewed consideration to legislation that would limit union ability to shut down essential services without warning and without polling all union members."
Haaretz comments: "PM Netanyahu wants to be depicted as a peace-loving and law-abiding leader who is faithful to the rules of democracy. But he also seeks every possible way to legalize outposts while stealing privately owned land and sidestepping decisions by the High Court of Justice. Instead of ending the unbridled campaign to keep alive the Migron outpost and Beit El\’s Ulpana neighborhood, the prime minister approves shenanigans against High Court rulings."
[Eitan Haber, Oded Granot and Dan Margalit wrote today\’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma\’ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]