Alray International Media Watch section is a daily press tour through selected international websites and newspapers, particularly the Israeli ones.
This section is prepared by Alray Palestinian Media Agency to update its viewers with the most Palestinian top news in the international press.
Yedioth Ahronoth:
Political maneuvers and elections are a deadly combination - it is crucial to be able to differentiate between the important subjects and the trivial, between political spins and the essence of the issue at hand. Further details
Blue & White Chairman Benny Gantz said on Monday that he will work to implement Trump's peace plan for the Middle East immediately after the elections in March. Further details
During a closed-door meeting with Fatah leadership on Monday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for an "escalation on all fronts" in popular resistance in an attempt to stop U.S. President Donald Trump's peace proposal. Further details
The Shin Bet security agency announced on Monday it successfully exposed and arrested a Hamas “spy” network that operated within Israeli territory. Further details
Police arrested on Monday 22 suspects - including six “IDF” soldiers, eight Israeli civilians and eight Palestinians – on suspicion of operating a smuggling network from the West Bank into “Israel”. Further details
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Monday his proposed Middle East peace plan will be unveiled on Tuesday despite strong objection on the Palestinian side. Further details
There were two separate incidents of weaponized drones infiltrating into “Israel” in an attempt to attack Israeli targets. Further details
The Islamist militant group Islamic State purportedly urged its fighters and Muslims in general to attack Jews and Jewish settlements in an audio recording released on Monday, that is said to feature the voice of spokesman Abu Hamzah Al-Quraishi. Further details
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to give Israeli leaders six weeks to 'get the peace plan going,' as he is set to reveal the details of the long-delayed proposal on Monday. Further details
Attorney General Avichai Mandleblit announced Sunday his decision to indict Likud MK David Bitan on nine counts of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Further details
Palestinian lawmakers backed by President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, said Sunday that the day U.S. President Donald Trump presents his Middle East peace plan would be a "Day of Rage" with riots and protests in the West Bank. Further details
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Sunday signed an order allowing Israelis to travel to Saudi Arabia. Further details
The Jerusalem Post:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he will withdraw his request for immunity from the Knesset. Netanyahu posted a letter addressed to the "citizens of Israel" on his Facebook. Further details
US President Donald Trump will release his peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday and for the first time publicize a map outlining the borders of a proposed Palestinian state. Further details
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas commented on Monday to US President Donald Trump's "Deal of the Century" that "Trump is a dog and the son of a dog," Fatah officials confirmed. Further details
Three years after he asked his adviser son-in-law Jared Kushner to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians, President Donald Trump is ready to launch his “ultimate deal.” Further details
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States and former MK and deputy minister for diplomacy Michael Oren spoke to Fox News on Sunday ahead of US President Donald Trump's meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. Both Israeli leaders are expected to speak with the president about his Middle East peace plan, the "Deal of the Century." Further details
Palestinians on Monday expressed concern that some Arab states may accept US President Donald Trump’s upcoming plan for Mideast peace, notwithstanding strong Palestinian opposition to the deal. Further details
Palestinian factions on Sunday called for a “day of rage” for the day US President Donald Trump releases his long-awaited plan for Mideast peace. Further details
US President Donald Trump’s peace plan may not actually bring peace, but it could herald major change in the region by giving Israel a green light not only to apply sovereignty to settlements in the West Bank, but to do it now. Further details
France 24’s Marc Perelman, in an interview conducted two weeks ago with Jordan’s king, made obvious efforts to get Abdullah II to slam US President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century.” Further details
“The Deal of the Century” concocted by the administration of US President Donald Trump is more likely to reignite a fire on the Palestinian street than lead to a peace agreement between the two sides. Further details
Former US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Nikki Haley spoke at the Israel Center on Addictions event in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Monday evening, the event that instigated her visit to Israel, where she said that "The number one priority" of the "Deal of the Century" is "the national security of Israel." Further details
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has arrested two Israeli civilians on suspicion of spying for Hamas to gather intelligence for “terrorist attacks” against Israeli targets. Further details
Settler leaders said they were “waiting patiently” for US President Donald Trump’s unveiling of his peace plan on Tuesday, known as the Deal of the Century but had stressed the importance of Israeli sovereignty when speaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Further details
US President Donald Trump’s peace plan may only be implemented by a new government and in dialogue with Israel’s neighbors, Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz said following his meeting with Trump met in the White House on Monday. Further details
Acting Justice Minister Amir Ohana ordered the state's collection agency on Monday night to seize NIS 4.2 million in assets from the Palestinian Authority as “compensation for terror victims”. Further details
On the eve of the Trump administration peace plan’s rollout, Democrats in Congress urged the president to maintain the two-state solution. Further details
The Times of Israel:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he was withdrawing his request for parliamentary immunity from the pending indictment in the three corruption cases against him. Further details
Tuesday was shaping up to be a dramatic day for Israel with the start of Knesset proceedings on Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for immunity in his corruption probes. Meanwhile, the prime minister himself will be thousands of miles away in Washington, where US President Trump was preparing to release his long-promised peace plan later in the day. Further details
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced on Sunday that he will file an indictment, pending a hearing, against senior Likud MK David Bitan for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, as well as money laundering and tax offenses. Further details
The Trump administration’s long-awaited peace plan will propose a redrawn border between “Israel” and the West Bank that would incorporate large settlements into “Israel”, sources told The Washington Post on Monday. Further details
The US administration will publish its long-anticipated Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump confirmed on Monday, standing next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Further details
Police on Tuesday opened an investigation into an apparent hate crime in the northern West Bank where a building inside of a Palestinian village was torched and Hebrew graffiti was daubed on an outer wall. Further details
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday called an emergency meeting of Palestinian leadership the following day, shortly before the US formally announces its long-anticipated Middle East peace proposal. Further details
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly refused to take a phone call from US President Donald Trump ahead of the White House’s expected release of a Mideast peace plan rejected by Ramallah as one-sided in favor of “Israel”. Further details
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday urged international powers to boycott US President Donald Trump’s “peace plan” which they see as biased toward “Israel”. Further details
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz on Monday met with US President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss the administration’s forthcoming peace proposal. He called the plan historic, and promised to work to implement it — along with other regional players, and after the March 2 Israeli elections. Further details
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said Monday that officials were beginning the administrative work required to implement an expected Israeli annexation of an unspecified part of the West Bank. Further details
