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Media Summary

10/08/2015

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The Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Independent, Independent i and Metro all cover the continuing crackdown by Israeli authorities on Jewish terrorists. Over the weekend, Israeli security forces raided three settlement outposts in the West Bank and arrested suspects believed to have been involved in extremist attacks. In addition, two agitators were placed under a six-month administrative detention order, an anti-terror measure previously used only against Palestinian terror suspects. The crackdown began after deadly attacks earlier this month at the Jerusalem gay pride parade and in a Palestinian West Bank village. Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum swiftly condemned the attacks as terror incidents.

The Independent online reports on a video clip compiled by the Israeli Ynet news site, which followed a gay couple walking through Jerusalem, who encountered a significant degree of hostility. The Financial Times online says that the Hand in Hand bilingual Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem was subject to an abusive comment via the Israeli social traffic app Waze.

The Times and Independent i report that a Swedish man has been charged in Israel with attempting to recruit Arab-Israeli citizens to Hezbollah. He was arrested while entering Israel earlier this year and is thought to have been linked to Hezbollah since 2009. The terror group controls a vast rocket arsenal in southern Lebanon and has attempted to attack Israelis abroad on several occasions.

The Guardian online covers a report by a United Nations agency, which says that the infant mortality rate has increased in the Gaza Strip for the first time in a century.

The Independent and Independent i both report comments made by US President Barack Obama to CNN, in which he said that the United States could cooperate with Iran in the future on issues such as Syria, but not immediately.

The online editions of the Telegraph and Independent both say that Syrians are protesting against a cousin of President Assad, who killed an army officer in a road rage incident after the official delayed his motorcade.

The Times online says that Egypt’s former-President Mohammed Morsi, also the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was recently sentenced to death, has begun a hunger strike. Morsi says that he is being given unsafe food which is incompatible with his diabetes.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom, also covered prominently in Maariv and Haaretz is the stabbing of an Israeli man by a Palestinian, which took place yesterday on Route 443 at a petrol station between Modi’in and Jerusalem. The victim received moderate injuries and was taken to a Jerusalem hospital for treatment, while the attacker was shot dead by IDF forces. However, security forces believe that up to three accomplices escaped the scene.

Haaretz highlights the further arrests and measures taken by Israeli authorities against Jewish extremists. Yossi Melman in Maariv says it shows that “the Shin Bet, the IDF and the security establishment—but particularly so the prime minister and the defence minister—have decided to shift gears” in the fight against Jewish terror.

Meanwhile, Ben Caspit in Maariv reports fears in the Israeli banking system that the European Union could adopt a recent recommendation by the European Council on Foreign Relations to boycott any Israeli bank engaged in any activity beyond the Green Line. Caspit says that every Israeli bank is involved in giving credit for routine loans such as mortgages in the West Bank and that as such, all Israeli banks could face an “economic-political tsunami.”