Ha’aretz hands the paper over to writers instead of journalists for one day. Go to the Ha’aretz site and choose June 10th under “Previous Editions” to see it. This article by Etgar Keret is amongst my favorites:
Barak spoke Tuesday night to the Council for Peace and Security, in an auditorium full of veterans of the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet security service and the Mossad – or as one journalist described it, “generations of defense officials. These people led us from disaster to disaster.” …
The speech was erudite and precise. The text was pragmatic. But the subtext was depressing: We cannot survive without a treaty, but we have no one to sign one with. We must try, but just between the two of us, it won’t work. The word “opportunity” was mentioned repeatedly, but every time, it was accompanied by a sigh. Pessimism is part and parcel of being a rightist leader, but to be a pessimistic leftist leader is unpleasant.