From Today's Israeli Press
YOAV GALLANT, AGAIN
REVOLUTION NOW: Amnon Lord asserts in Israel Hayom that it is time to replace the IDF top brass.
THE INTERNAL FRONT: Avi Issacharoff claims in Yedioth Ahronoth that Israel is held hostage by its Prime Minister.
LISTEN TO SMOTRICH: Hagai Segal argues in Makor Rishon that the military elite is having a hard time letting go of its sense of ownership of the wisdom of conducting wars.
CONFRONTING ERDOGAN: Yoni Ben-Menachem stresses in ArabExpert that Turkey has become a terror-supporting state; Israel uncovered a secret Sinwar plan to establish a clandestine base there.
ABSURD SPECTACLE: Anshel Pfeffer proclaims in Haaretz that when Gallant broke his silence about Netanyahu's Gaza War paralysis; he was representing the entire security establishment.
GALLANT REPEATS HISTORY: Herb Keinon contends in The Jerusalem Post that the Gallant-Netanyahu duel this week neither promoted nor inspired public trust in the government.
From Today's Arabic Press
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
CRISES AND COLLAPSES: The holding of yet another Arab summit whose resolutions sound like repeated empty rhetoric with no action taken to address the Arab world's dismal conditions raises the question why the Arabs have reached such dire straits, contends Lebanese commentator Amin Qammouriyeh on Friday's Lebanese website www.asasmedia.com. An important part of the cause for this situation is the Arabs' turning away from the Palestinian cause which used to bolster Arab unity, increasing the Arab's external power and bolstering their internal resilience.
THE REAL BREAKING NEWS: Most of the Arab leaders who gathered in Manama for the Arab summit do not represent their peoples who have been awakened from their lethargy by the resistance in Gaza and its supportive regional fronts, proclaims Editor-in-Chief 'Abdelbari 'Atwan on Friday's London-based, pan-Arab www.raialyoum.com. Moreover, the shameful speech delivered by the PA president accusing Hamas of unilaterally deciding to go to war is preposterous, coming from someone who unilaterally betrayed the Palestinians via the Oslo Accords.
ZIONISM'S TWO CAMPS: The "day after" dispute between Netanyahu and Biden is a manifestation of a deeper conflict between two Zionist visions for dealing with Israel's Palestinian demographic problem, Netanyahu's hardline camp that seeks the expulsion of the Palestinians, and Biden's liberal camp that tries to solve the demographic problem via an expanded PA that controls the Palestinians in coordination with Israel, maintains Saudi commentator Badr al-Ibrahim in Friday's left-leaning pro-Hezbollah Beirut daily al-Akhbar. But neither camp's solution is viable, since both are unable to uproot the Palestinians from their land.
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Netanyahu is caught in two binds, between Gallant and Gantz, and between Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, notes former Palestinian information minister Nabil 'Amr on Friday's Palestinian www.maannews.net. Unable to defeat Gaza's resistance, he flounders about, he resorts to nonsensical rhetorical devices, speaking of "total victory" and Hamastan and Fatahstan, and rejecting U.S.'s pressures by invoking Israel's "independent decision-making"; but his end will be by "friendly fire" from his own political and military "friends".
SAIED'S FEARS: The Tunisian president seems to be heedlessly dragging the country into a dangerous scene leading to the country's presidential elections to be held by October 23, insists Lebanese commentator Joumana Farhat on Friday's Qatari-owned, London-based, pan-Arab news portal www.alaraby.co.uk. Ever since he came to power in 2021, he has successfully pursued a divide-and-conquer policy towards all political parties; but he fears the emergence of effective opposition to his rule and has resorted to imprisoning all his actual or potential opponents.