Yediot Aharonot contends that "We must attempt to find a crack, even the tiniest, in the wall of the Brotherhood. There will be those who will say that there is no one to talk to in Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. It would seem that this is even correct. But with whom, for example, did we conduct negotiations with for the release of Gilad Shalit?"
Ma\’ariv eulogizes the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "He was an exceptionally strong man; physically, mentally, personally. And even for him managing and steering the Jewish State in days that were so dangerous in the Middle East, was a difficult mission, to the extent of being impossible. He gave it everything that he had." The author reminds his readers that Yitzhak Shamir was "one of the last leaders who did not try to use his position to enrich himself. He did not accumulate assets, a ranch, a castle or a luxury apartment."
Yisrael Hayom suggests that "Bad things are happening to the [socio-economic] protest. The protest\’s initiators, for example Yitzhak Elrov and the cottage cheese protestors and the initiative to break-up [the country\’s] cartelization – those who began it and sacrificed much in order to fight economic centralization… have been pushed to the side. Their place at the frontline of the protest has been awarded by the media to radical marginal groups with which it identifies, groups that are not really interested in the war against [economic] centralization, but rather in the use of violence in order to advance radical political agendas."
Haaretz is opposed to the proposed upgrade of the Ariel University Center of Samaria – located in Ariel on the West Bank – to university status, and opines: “Israeli academia, which prides itself on its protection of academic freedom, cannot support the establishment of an academic institution in a place whose residents are denied freedom.” The editor notes that the proposal is chiefly political, and asserts: “An Israeli university on the West Bank would be a university for the occupation sciences; it must not happen.”
The Jerusalem Post warns of the dangers caused by the Islamic movements that are apparently joining forces and threatening regional stability in Africa, and states that “Recent attacks throughout countries bordering the Sahara, combined with the weakening of state power in Tunisia, Libya and parts of Egypt, mean this combined threat harms innocent Africans and has the potential to spread terrorism to the Middle East, Europe and America.”
[Eitan Haber, Ben Caspit and Daniel Doron wrote today’s articles in Yediot Aharonot, Ma\’ariv and Yisrael Hayom, respectively.]