From Today's Israeli Press
SECURITY SQUABBLES
BLOOD PACT: Ben-Dror Yemini asserts in Yedioth Ahronoth that Netanyahu's support for the Haredim is harming national security.
ORIT STROOK'S MIRACLE: Ofer Shelah claims in N12 that the political crisis and the IDF's military and moral conduct in Gaza are intertwined, representing a bleak mirror image of Israeli society.
AIRSTRIKES WILL NOT DO: Boaz Golani argues in Maariv that the only way to get rid of the Houthis is to train the Yemenite government's army, build a coalition around it and help it regain control of Yemen.
SUFFERING IN GAZA: Yoni Ben-Menachem stresses in ArabExpert that Gazans are paying the price of Hamas' recalcitrance.
RAISING THE BAR: Amos Harel proclaims in Haaretz that Netanyahu and his ministers aim to intimidate Israel's defense chiefs.
ANKARA'S VETO: Shay Gal contends in The Jerusalem Post that Turkey's geopolitical priorities are increasingly diverging from those of NATO, sidelining Israel and providing Russia and Iran with opportunities to exploit.
From Today's Arabic Press
PRAYER AND CURSING
COLLUSION WITH THE ENEMY?: Although any survey of the Egyptians' reactions on social media clearly shows that they are highly sympathetic to the Palestinians in Gaza, attempts to stage demonstrations in Egypt have at their peak only managed to gather a few hundred people, notes Palestinian commentator Suhail Kiwan on Tuesday's PCI-(Palestinian citizens of Israel) focused news portal www.arab48.com. The regime's policy of repression has stifled the Egyptians' emotions and will, while the state media conceal the regime's collusion which allows Israel to tighten its blockade; the same is true of Palestinians inside Israel who have been subdued by Israeli repression.
WEAK AND WIDELY CRITICIZED: The images emerging from Gaza show that Israel is committing a full-fledged crime against civilians with premeditation and intent under the watchful eyes of the "civilized" world and amidst disgraceful Arab silence, especially from Egypt, notes Palestinian commentator Dhaher Saleh on Tuesday's pro-Hamas news portal www.palinfo.com. But the Arab stance as a whole has been at best feeble, amounting to betrayal of the Palestinians, who must now correct the Oslo Accords' historical mistake made when some believed that peace could be made with murderers, or that they can count on an Arab or international stance.
ABANDONED GAZANS: The valiant people of Gaza have been subjected to the most horrific crimes by the Israeli occupation for sixteen months, while the ummah of two-billion Arabs and Muslims mostly stood aside and watched without helping them, notes Maher Abu-Tayr in Tuesday's Amman daily al-Ghad. Now that Israel and the U.S. are doing their best to realize their displacement schemes, no one in this ummah has the right to accuse any Gazan who leaves of treason or use the few who do leave to tarnish Gaza's status as a Palestinian icon of resilience.
RESTRUCTURING THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP: Prompted by the Arab stance conveyed to him by the director of Egyptian intelligence before the March 4 Cairo Arab summit, PA President Mahmoud 'Abbas undertook to restructure the leadership frameworks of the state and to pump new blood into the PLO, Fatah, and the PA, notes Hamada Fara'neh in Tuesday's Amman daily ad-Dustour. Yet 'Abbas was absent from the March 16 Fatah Central Committee meeting which expressed solidarity with the content of his speech but did not take serious and concrete decisions to implement it, raising questions about his intentions.
THE SUDANESE JUMBLE: Amidst the mess of ethnic, regional-ethnic, ethno-economic-social, and purely regional conflicts in and over Sudan, foreign powers have continued to exploit the country's multi-layered conflicts, notes Syrian commentator Mohammad Sayyid Rassas in Tuesday's left-leaning pro-Hezbollah Beirut daily al-Akhbar. The main conflict over the past two years between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is no exception; and although the Sudanese army has all but won the battle for Khartoum, the next battle will likely be in the RSF-controlled Darfur region, and Sudan's shape remains uncertain.