In the press - American "Peace Plan": "The flop of the century?"

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On the front page of the press this morning, the presentation today by Donald Trump of the "peace plan" which he has been preparing for three years, to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Billed as the "deal of the century" by the President, the text has already been presented to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival for the March legislative elections, Benny Gantz - both alongside Donald Trump, On the front page this morning of the Jerusalem Post . The daily expresses measured optimism: "The plan of the American president may not bring peace, but it can bring about a major change in the region, by giving the green light to Israel, to claim its sovereignty over the occupied West Bank , and exercise this sovereignty, "the newspaper predicts, which also evokes the Palestinians' fear of seeing certain Arab countries validate Donald Trump's plan. Apprehensions which seem rather justified, according to the reception reserved by Arab News for the announcements of the American president, whose Saudi newspaper welcomes the “historic” presentation, by quoting some of the numerous promises: “A great agreement is on the way "The proposed plan will make sense to all parties, and the Palestinians will eventually rally around it," said Donald Trump. According to The Washington Post , his plan would offer Palestinians, who have already said they would boycott the plan, "a possibility of creating a Palestinian state, if a number of preconditions are met."

Donald Trump's plan is already widely criticized, including on the Israeli side. In a column published by the left-wing daily Haaretz , former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a fierce opponent of Benjamin Netanyahu, supports the plan of the American president, but accuses Netanyahu, who has allied with the Israeli far right, to try to make it fail, in order to then be able to hold the Palestinians responsible for this failure, and obtain, in the long term, the annexation of the West Bank, with the blessing of Donald Trump. In Lebanon, L'Orient Le Jour does not evoke the possible ulterior motives of the Israeli Prime Minister, but confirms that the American offer could include "an annexation of part of the West Bank", "enough to permanently bury the solution to two states and provoke a new Palestinian anger ", according to the newspaper, which already evokes" the flop of the century ". A drawing published by the London Pan-Arab daily Al Araby Al Jadeed , sums up the state of mind of critics of Donald Trump's plan - seen shaking hands with Benyamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, passing over body of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and on the plan to create a Palestinian state.

Also on the front page this morning, the dissatisfaction expressed by the New York prosecutor, who says he regrets that Prince Andrew refuses to participate in the investigation of the Epstein case. According to The I , the justice system and the American federal police, the FBI, asked the son of Queen Elizabeth II to testify about his relations with Jeffrey Epstein - this American pedophile who died in prison before his trial - but have still not Unable to get an answer when the Duke of York - who is accused by a woman recruited by Epstein of forcing her to have sex with him when she was a minor - said he was ready to help the investigators. "Andrew snubs the FBI on the Epstein investigation," headlines The Daily Mirror - with a photo of the Duke taken in a TV interview where he tried to justify himself in the Epstein affair; a "catastrophic" interview, according to the British press, which had already much criticized, at that time, the arrogance of Prince Andrew.

British newspapers have also chosen for their front page, like many newspapers around the world, a photo taken yesterday, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. This photo, published in particular by The Times , is that of a survivor, Igor Malickij, now 94 years old, during the ceremonies that took place yesterday in the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp. A survivor in tears, dressed in a uniform similar to the one he had worn throughout his detention, his prisoner number sewn on, the number 188 005.

The British press, which obviously returns to Brexit, three days before the UK leaves the European Union. According to The Financial Times , two files are likely to be particularly delicate after Brexit, that of financial services and fisheries, with many British fishermen saying they fear being sacrificed, by the new regulations, for the benefit of sectors- keys to British services. Fears that Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to defuse by promising to oust European fishermen from British waters in the future, according to The Daily Express . Whatever the outcome of the negotiations still underway on the subject, I suggest to all of you to throw an eyelash at Figaro , which tells how albatrosses, equipped with beacons capable of locating the radar emissions of boats and send back the information via satellite helped to spy on illegal fishing and to estimate the number of undeclared boats in the Indian Ocean. Feathered policemen over the English Channel would be so poetic.

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