The Times, The Financial Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian report on Trump’s comments following his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, where he made clear he was not committed to a two-state solution between Israel and Palestinians and open to pursuing other options. The Guardian notes Trump stated: “I’m looking at two-state and one-state and I like the one that both parties like.” The Times notes that this change in US policy would mean the abandonment of the decade’s long assumption that Israel must withdraw from all or most of the land it captured in the West Bank during the Six Day War.

The BBC, The Daily Mail and The Metro also report on the Netanyahu-Trump meeting, noting Trump’s comments that Israel should “hold back” on settlement building in the West Bank.

The Times further reports on this story Netanyahu’s openness to a “regional approach” to the peace process between Israel and Palestinians.

The Financial Times notes that Hezbollah has become more powerful due to its involvement in the Syrian civil war.

The Guardian features a story that presents a history of Middle Eastern liberalism to counter Trump’s vision of Islam.

The Evening Standard reports on the growing threat of far-right extremism in the UK following a recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks.

The i reports that CIA Chief Mike Pompeo met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday in the West Bank, marking the first high-level meeting between Palestinians and the Trump Administration.

The Israeli media overwhelmingly concentrates on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting with President Trump yesterday. Nahum Barnea in Yediot Ahronot notes the response of the British media when Prime Minister May visited the White House – “don’t grovel”. Barnea applies this principle of the closing remarks of the press conference on the issue of antisemitism. “There is no greater supporter of the Jewish people and the Jewish state than President Donald Trump,”  Barnea writes “Netanyahu provided Trump with that kashrut certificate in response to a question by our colleague, (channel 10 correspondent) Moav Vardi, who cited the rising tide of antisemitism in the United States in the past several months. Trump opened the door to that phenomenon with his racist remarks, with his decision to flout political correctness, with the encouragement that he gave to extreme right wing movements and with his refusal to condemn the antisemitic publications put out by those movements. That is not the way a great supporter of the Jewish people acts. That isn’t the way even a small supporter of the Jewish people acts”.

Barnea also focuses on the urgent issues, “the ease with which Trump threw out decades of American support for the two-state solution shouldn’t appall us. In his simplistic and blunt manner, he put his finger on the heart of the problem: If the two sides want two states, let them agree about two states; if the two sides want one state, let them agree about one state. America shouldn’t lecture them on what’s good for them.   If he were slightly more informed he might have realized that the two sides, in practice, have chosen a third option: not to agree”.

In Ma‎ariv, Ben Caspit notes “what we saw yesterday was primarily a planned ceremony, an orchestrated show of friendship, and evasive declarations that can attest to nothing as to what will happen on the Washington-Jerusalem-Ramallah axis in the years to come. Though he suggests that members of the Israeli right wing ought to temper their enthusiasm, “a president who declares right at his first public press conference with the prime minister of Israel that it would be best to hold back on the settlements for a little bit cannot be a friend of the settlements.”

“The warning light that should be flashing for the left is the fact that for the first time since the concept of the two-state solution was invented, an American president openly declared and demonstrated his total indifference to it. Two states, one state, whatever,” said Trump. He added: “I’m very happy with the one that both parties like.”

Concluding; “There is nothing to be grateful for at this stage, and nothing to be happy about. We are still far from knowing where Trump wants to go, with whom and when. Since no agreement between Israel and the Palestinians will be attained, the “dream deal” that Trump dreams about will not happen, and the “regional arrangement” will not happen, the real question is in what sort of mood Trump will perceive these failures and what he will do when he faces the broken pieces. Anyone who knows how to answer that question is welcome to take bets.”

Sima Kadmon in Yediot Ahronot that “there can be ‎no disputing that Netanyahu received exactly what he wanted from the American president. One state, two states—‎what difference does it make? That is precisely the attitude that Netanyahu would like to see the American President adopt. Someone who doesn’‎t have the foggiest clue what he is talking about”

Shlomo Shamir reporting reactions from the UN for Ma‎ariv also cautions, “it looks too good to be true” but  “pay attention to the contradictory declarations coming out of the inner circle of the White House over the past few days regarding the solution of two states for two peoples,” said a diplomat at the UN yesterday. He continued: “Early this week, a statement was issued saying that the White House supported the solution. Yesterday a top White House official implied that the two-state solution is not the only solution, and at the same time it was reported that CIA Director Mike Pompeo had held a conversation with Abu Mazen in Ramallah. What and whom should we believe?”

‎Shlomo Pyoterkovsky also writing in Yediot Ahronot comments: “‎The Trump administration is the most facilitating administration Netanyahu could have dreamed of, one that grants him the greatest amount of maneuvering room… ‎now he [Netanyahu] is going to have to shift into a proactive stance. He is going to have to chart a course and set out on it. The window of opportunity is limited, and it is very hard to say when it will close.  Netanyahu needs to set courageous objectives, such as the application of Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria, and to achieve those objectives. Any other result will be a failure.”

In other news, Israel Hayom suggests Prime Minister Netanyahu also asked Trump to recognize Israel’s annexation of  the Golan Heights.  Ma‎ariv  revisits the trial of Nazi collaborator John Demjanjuk  as there are still unanswered  questions 30 years later.  Israel Radio reports that five former American ambassadors to Israel objected to appointing David Friedman to be the new ambassador, saying that Friedman, Trump’s candidate, lacked the skills to be the American ambassador to Israel and called on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to take a close look at his appointment.