UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson published an op-ed in the Telegraph today in which he sets out his “vision for Middle East peace between Israel and a new Palestinian state”, a two-state solution based on 67 lines with agreed land swaps and a shared capital of Jerusalem.

The Mail Online and Metro both report that the Labour party risks being embroiled in a new row over antisemitism within the party after leader Jeremy Corbyn refused an invitation to an official dinner commemorating the Balfour Declaration, at which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be present. The Sunday Times reported the story yesterday.

Kevin Maguire has published an op-ed in the Mirror in which he argues that Britain still “owes Palestinians a country on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration,” as such a promise was made in the Balfour Declaration but not fulfilled.

The Mail Online and Reuters UK both report the story that under diplomatic pressure from the EU, the Israeli government has delayed a bill that would have absorbed several settlements in East Jerusalem into the Jerusalem municipality, effectively making them part of Israeli territory.

BBC News Online, the Guardian and the Times report that the Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani is to step down as President of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. Barzani said in a speech after announcing his resignation that “our people have asked to express our democratic peaceful right but it seems that it is us and our mountains,” a Kurdish idiom that means the Kurds have no friends but the mountains of their region.

The Times reports that Sara Netanyahu is being sued by a former employee for £48,000 over allegations of “inhumane” treatment.

Most of the Israeli media is focused on domestic political tension.  Yediot Ahronot describes the coalition as “paralysed”. As a result of political brinkmanship between the Likud and its coalition partners, all legislative initiatives have been suspended.  This stemmed initially from the bill that would prevent police investigations into the actions of a sitting Prime Minister, which was being pushed by Likud MKs despite Netanyahu saying yesterday: “I don’t want any bill that relates to the investigations now being conducted that are related to me or not related to me.”   Also included in the freeze is the bill that looks to expand Jerusalem’s boundaries to include satellite settlements, which has been dropped due to diplomatic sensitivity with the US.  Haaretz sees the political crisis as a way of diverting attention away from his wife who is being accused of harsh treatment towards staff at the Prime Minister’s residence.   Israel Hayom notes lack of unity within the Likud, with ministers accusing coalition chairman David Bitan of worsening the situation in order to move to an early election.

Yediot Ahronot devotes half its front page to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s article about the 100 year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.  He tells the paper he “sees no contradiction between being a friend of Israel and has deep feelings towards the suffering of the Palestinians”.  Sitting in the same room that his predecessor wrote the Balfour Declaration, he declared: “I am proud of the part Britain played in creating the State of Israel.”

Maariv highlights the ongoing tension between the Police Commissioner and the Prime Minister.  The police chief gave a security briefing to the Cabinet yesterday, but shortly after he began to speak the Prime Minister left the room for 15 minutes.   After returning he asked the ministers to keep the questions short.

Yediot Ahronot also publishes a strong warning by Yuval Diskin, a former director of the Shin Bet, who states that the Israeli public has “good reason to be terrified by the ethical and moral rot that leads us, that has infiltrated the Knesset and the corridors of government and which has undermined our future and the foundations of our existence. If we permit corruption to take hold in the Knesset, to damage the separation of powers in the country and, worst of all — to infiltrate the most sensitive process in a democratic country, which is the process by which our elected officials are investigated — this incredible Zionist enterprise will expire, and we all will be despondent, sour and, most importantly, rotten.”

Kan Radio News reveals that Jared Kushner secretly visited Saudi Arabia a few days ago in an attempt to promote the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. He was accompanied by special Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell. Kushner returned to the US while Greenblatt continued to hold a series of meetings in the region. Among others, he met yesterday afternoon in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Netanyahu.