Israeli Press
Israel's front pages lead with a stabbing, settler arson and Ra'am
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What the Israeli press put in front of its readers on Sunday morning, and what a Palestinian reader can take from it.
Ynet#
The site opens on a stabbing near al-Auja, north of Jericho, in which an Israeli man was moderately wounded and the assailant fled; the army sealed the entrances to the village and the surrounding area while it searched.
Beneath that sits the more consequential piece: the military correspondent Elisha Ben Kimon's account of senior officers warning that the occupied West Bank is going out of control because of settler violence, at a moment when they say Palestinian attacks are declining.
The opinion page runs the same argument from the other end. Ben-Dror Yemini writes that the E1 building plans are political theatre rather than settlement, that the aim is to set the region alight before the election in the hope that what harms the state helps a collapsing coalition, and that the government wants fire and smoke. His headline is "They are pushing us towards an intifada."
Maariv#
Maariv's politics desk stays on the election. It publishes an interview with Mansour Abbas defending Yoav Segalovich against what he expects will be accusations of treachery when he joins the Ra'am slate, the Shas MK Uriel Buso insisting his party never fought army conscription, and a report, citing Channel 12, that the Shin Bet chief David Zini has finally refused Gadi Eisenkot a security detail despite the threats against him.
Its Syria file argues that Israel struck an empty runway in the north to avoid taking a blow from a NATO state, and that the real contest with Ankara runs without agreed rules.
Haaretz#
Haaretz's live coverage carries the night the West Bank actually had. Palestinian residents reported settlers setting fire to vehicles and a building in Osarin, south of Nablus, and to a building, property and livestock feed in Burqa to its north.
In Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, three men died overnight. A gunman shot Essam al-Awar in a feud between families, and Israeli police then shot dead two more men of the same family, Khalil al-Awar and Ahmad al-Awar, saying officers felt endangered by them.
Channel 12 and the wire#
Channel 12's military desk keeps returning to the kites flown out of Gaza and the settlements around the Strip demanding a response; the army says no explosives have been found on any of them.
The item the Israeli press is not leading with is the one Palestinian papers led with on Saturday: the killing of Fathi Khazem in his home in Jenin, and the body the army has not returned.
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