La stampa e l'Iran

Rassegna stampa in versione sintetica della stampa israeliana. La riporto per mostrare i toni utilizzati in relazione alla questione "attaccare l'Iran", lasciando i riferimenti (interessanti) ad altri argomenti.

HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

 

HA’ARETZ

1. WESTERN EXPERTS: IRAN WILL BE ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER A NUCLEAR BOMB WITHIN A FEW MONTHS.

Anticipation ahead of IAEA report.  Ahmadinejad: "If we are not prepared for conflict, we will go back 500 years."

 

2. LIKUD ADVANCING LEGISLATION AGAINST THE LEFT WITH NETANBYAHU'S SUPPORT.

 

MA’ARIV

1. Washington Post: Iran will be able to put together a bomb within a short time.

LIBERMAN: IF THE US DOES NOT IMPOSE SHARP SANCTIONS, IT WILL BE THE WEST'S ACCEPTANCE OF A NUCLEAR IRAN.

Foreign Minister sharpens tone ahead of the IAEA report.  (…).

 

2. PALESTINIAN BOYCOTT: STOP DRINKING "TAPUZINA."

Nationalist campaign against favorite West Bank drink.

 

YEDIOT AHRONOT

1. World waiting anxiously for report on Iranian nuclear project.

THE IRANIAN WARHEAD.

Washington Post reveals: Senior Russian scientist was Iran's key player in race to put nuclear warhead on long-range missiles.  Now Russia opposes publication of the report.

 

YISRAEL HAYOM

1. Senior Iranian: "We will destroy Israel even before it attacks us."

BOMB AT THEIR FINGERTIPS.

Anticipation ahead of publication of IAEA report on Iranian nuclear program.  Report: "Tehran is only a few months away from putting together a nuclear warhead; it was aided by a Russian scientist."  US: Report will reflect our concerns.  Russian FM: "Israeli attack would be a serious mistake."  Germany: "Discussion about attack only strengthens Tehran."

 

2. INCREASING TENSION OVER CONTROVERSIAL OUTPOSTS.

Netanyahu: "Settlement issue is important – but so is the law; Government will not build on private Palestinian land."  Outrage among settlers: "Do not demolish Jewish homes."

 

WALLA!

1.  "PRICE TAG" AGAINST PEACE NOW WORKER: "RABIN IS WAITING FOR YOU."

Graffiti sprayed on wall of building of head of organization's settlement construction monitoring team, Hagit Ofran.  Approximately two months ago, similar incident occurred when graffiti was sprayed in building's stairway.

 

2. US AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL: "COORDINATING WITH JERUSALEM ON IRAN ISSUE."

Ambassador Dan Shapiro clarifies that US-Israeli relations are "stronger than ever" and adds that "We are jointly leading an effort to increase sanctions against Iran and return the Palestinians to the negotiating table."

 

NANA10

1. AHMADINEJAD: "WE ARE LIABLE TO RECEIVE A BLOW THAT WE WILL NOT RECOVER FROM FOR 500 YEARS."

Iranian President warns closed conference of his supporters against consequences of a possible NATO attack.  Former IDF Intelligence Branch Iran desk commander: "They are not making a bomb to launch against Israel."

 

2. "RABIN IS WAITING FOR YOU" SPRAYED NEXT TO HOME OF LEFT-WING ACTIVIST.

 

3. SENIOR DIPLOMATIC SOURCE: DISAPPOINTMENT OVER US POSITION ON IRAN.

 

[Headlines for Walla! and Nana10 are from their websites as of 10:50.]

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SUMMARY OF OP-EDS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

 

Two papers discuss the Iranian nuclear issue ahead of a widely-anticipated IAEA report:

 

Yediot Ahronot believes that, "The IAEA report is the last opportunity to do what the US, Germany, France and Great Britain have failed to do up until now – create a unified international front that will embargo Iran and cause its leaders to understand that continuing the nuclear project will lead to economic sanctions, a worsening of the economic crisis and the undermining of the stability of their regime."  The author contends that, "While the Russians do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons, the issue does not top their list of priorities.  If the US can bring them onboard, China will find it difficult to stand completely alone as the friend of leprous Tehran," and concludes that, "Only global unity is likely to cause the leaders of the Iranian regime to think twice about the whole matter.  Only such a move will prevent an Israeli attack."

 

Ma'ariv asserts that, "In a certain sense, the entire diplomatic and media storm ahead of the report stems from the desire to persuade two men alone – Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao.  A clever but clear enough message has been passed on to these two men: There are two possibilities – either impose paralyzing sanctions on Iran or Israel and/or the US will feel that they must act militarily.  True, if sanctions are imposed, the energy sector will be hit.  But if a military attack is carried out, the damage is liable to be much greater and more far-reaching."  However, the author fears that, "The Russians, the Chinese and the Iranians are likely to discover that this message is a bluff," because, "In any case, there is no chance of a military attack."

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Yisrael Hayom comments on the recent 18^th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo accords and asserts that, "Information in our hands today, and which was also in our hands 18 years ago, teaches that there is no chance that these agreements – in their current format – will succeed," partly because they were signed with only one Palestinian faction that speaks for neither the entire Palestinian people nor the wider Arab-Muslim world.  The author avers that, "The Arabs will make peace with Israel only if they reach the conclusion that it is possible to destroy it.  Israel will never be able to make peace from a position of weakness.  In the Oslo accords, Israel gave the Arabs in general and the Palestinians in particular the great hope that this time, in the name of 'peace', they would be able to bring about the elimination of the Jewish state."