Adapted from Haaretz
Two days after the Flag March in the Occupied Al-Quds, the writers' comments varied. Some rejected it and considered it an attempt of incitement and attacks on the Arabs, while others committed on Hamas' non-response to the march, considering it an Israeli victory and an embarrassing retreat to the Palestinian Resistance.
In its headline, Yedioth Ahronoth reported that more than 70.000 settlers took part in the march this year, and transferred the Jews' claims that their buildings and cars were attacked by the Arabs; the policy didn't treat that, it only deported them from the neighborhood. On the other side, the Arab traders in the Old City said that the policy had left them to extreme violent colonial settlers, and did not protect them.
The newspaper added that according to the police report, more than 20 violent incidents between the Jews and Arabs broke out, some of which ended in arrest, more than 60 suspicious were suspended, and 35 were arrested and brought as Jewish "terrorist organizations."
Regarding articles, in Yedioth Ahronoth' opening article "Incitement against Al-Quds doesn't need facts nor realities," the newspaper commented on the role of extreme Jews, and condemned the Israeli police for not taking procedures limiting their movements, saying: "it is possible that they didn't succeed in the march in the day before yesterday to achieve their goals and flare the situation. But they are still there, and it is not clear why there were no preventive arrests."
In Maarive, Yoram Dori, said in his article "Not my march" that such a march in which settlers chant slogans like "Death to Arabs" is not mine. Pillage and plunder of Arabs' shops is not the kind of celebrations I am interested in.
In the same newspaper, Tel Liv Ram said in his article "Hams is embarrassed" that Hamas perhaps understood that the price of its loss will be greater than the profit derived from a further escalation with "Israel" at this time, so it chose not to respond.