BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme included a number of interviews analysing the US plan for Israel and the Palestinians due to be published today. Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen said: “we don’t know what’s going to be in the deal… there has been suggestions that the agenda followed by Israel’s Prime Minister Mr Netanyahu has been absorbed by the Trump plan.” Bowen’s assessment is that it’s unlikely to succeed, but provides a useful distraction to both the Israeli Prime Minister and US President Donald Trump. Yaakov Amidror, former Israeli National Security Advisor said: “As far as we know the deal includes an independent Palestinian state, and if it will be adopted by the Israeli Knesset it will be the first time formally that Israel has adopted such a solution, as it wasn’t mentioned in Oslo. But it will not be the state that Palestinians want.” The Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said this is the “scam of the century” and that the Trump plan will not be satisfactory on the issues of sovereignty, refugees, Jerusalem or borders. He added “it isn’t about peace”.

The Associated Press reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his request for immunity from prosecution on Tuesday, hours before parliamentary proceedings were set to begin to vote on whether to grant him immunity. Netanyahu, who was visiting Washington ahead of the launch of President Donald Trump’s peace plan, said he “decided not to let this dirty game continue.”

The Telegraph, The Associated Press and Reuters report that US President Donald Trump will reveal his long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian plan at the White House on Tuesday, even though Palestinian leaders have already vowed to reject it. The Times reports that President Trump is set to propose full sovereignty for Israel over Jerusalem’s holiest site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif, as part of the most favourable peace plan ever offered to it, raising fears of renewed conflict over the contested land. The Independent reports that the Palestinian leadership has called on world leaders to “stand against” Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace deal.

Reuters reports that Iran’s foreign minister called US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East “delusional” in a tweet on Monday.

Reuters reports that a Washington visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss a long-awaited Middle East peace plan lent a surprise boost on Monday to Benny Gantz, Netanyahu’s main political rival, who secured a separate meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

The Financial Times reports that renewed fighting in Libya has ended a fragile two-week ceasefire as the UN warned new weapons shipments from international backers of the two warring sides had been entering the country. The Guardian reports that world powers will be complicit in the collapse of the rule of law in Libya if they do not do more to call out the countries backing those responsible for disrupting the country’s oil exports, the head of the Libyan national oil corporation has said.

The Times reports that Syrian government forces have surrounded a key city in the country’s last rebel-held stronghold as President Assad continues his offensive to regain control of the entire country after nine brutal years of war.

The Associated Press reports that ISIS is trying to stage an Iraq-based comeback amid rising US-Iran tensions, as the groups remnants have been gradually building up a guerrilla campaign over the past year, experts say.

The Associated Press reports that the chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani,  warned Monday that it will retaliate against American and Israeli commanders if the US continues to threaten top Iranian generals.

The Guardian reports that the sudden surge in violence in Yemen could scupper fragile moves towards a peace settlement, the UN’s special envoy for the country has said.

The Jewish Chronicle reports that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were both visibly moved after joining Holocaust survivors and dignitaries in London for a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In BBC News, Jeremy Bowen argues Trump’s peace plan aiming to solve the Israel/Palestine conflict has low chances of gaining both Israeli and Palestinian approval, although the stakes remain extremely high for figures on both sides.

In The Jewish Chronicle, Anshel Pfeffer argues Israeli leaders’ meeting with Trump is more about the Israeli election than the peace plan itself, as the Trump administration prepares to present its plan on Tuesday.

In The Guardian, Chris McGreal assesses how Jared Kushner has crafted the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, arguing Kushner has sidestepped historical grievances by constructing proposals without using inter-party negotiations.

All the Israeli media report this morning that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his request for parliamentary immunity from the Knesset. The Knesset plenum had been due to vote today to form the House Committee that would have voted and likely rejected the Prime Minister’s request for immunity from prosecution for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. With the immunity request pulled, there is no legal process stopping Attorney General Avichai Mandbelblit from filing the charges in the Jerusalem District Court.

All the Israeli media report that the Governor of Moscow has signed the pardon request for Israeli-American Naama Issachar. Issachar has been detained in Russia since last April and was recently convicted on drug smuggling charges for possession of 9g of marijuana while transiting through Moscow airport. The pardon request will now be submitted to President Vladimir Putin, who last week in Jerusalem indicated that “everything will be okay.”