In these morning’s papers the latest developments in Egypt continues to be the main Middle East news item. The Guardian carries an op-ed by a senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood who states that the movement will not turn to violence against Egypt’s army, but it will need the world’s support. The Financial Times includes the accusation made by Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that Israel is masterminding the coup in Egypt. Roger Boyes writes in The Times If the Egyptian army loses control on the Sinai and if Bashar Assad in Syria cannot control Jihadist activity on the Golan Heights, then Israel will be drawn into the fire. Kim Sengupta, the Defence Correspondent at The Independent, opines in the paper that West’s legacy in region has created an atmosphere of distrust of the West’s motives in Egypt. The paper also carries a short piece on the formation by Israel’s internal security services of a new unit to combat Islamic terrorism emanating from Sinai. Israel’s security services believes that there are now at least 15 groups operating in the Sinai, four of which present a risk to Israeli army units on the border into Israel.

The BBC online has an article on wounded Syrians treated in Israel, noting that as the conflict continues the number of injured Syrians reaching Israel treatment is rising. The BBC also covers comments made by the leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, who claims that radical Sunni Muslim militants bombed a Beirut suburb last week that killed 22 people. Hezbollah supports the forces of President Assad in the civil war in neighbouring Syria, and has even sent troops into Syria to fight on behalf of Assad. In other news outside the region, the Daily Telegraph notes calls by Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd singer and guitarist, in an open letter first posted on Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian website, for other musicians to boycott Israel, prompting accusations of hypocrisy.

In the Israeli media, the crisis in Egypt, and specifically comments made by Turkey’s PM Erdogan, dominates front pages. Erdogan’s comments that Israel was behind the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt is described in Yedioth Ahronoth as “ridiculous” and it quotes a government official in Jerusalem who said, “Anyone who sees conspiracies in every corner is a frightened man who’s lost touch with reality.” Commenting in Ma’ariv, Amnon Lord describes Erdogan as “the embodiment of the term Islamofascism…Erdogan belongs to the frustrated camp that has no say in Egypt’s fate. His statement against Israel is an expression of frustration.” In other Egypt related news, Ma’ariv reports that National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror will leave for Washington next week to meet with National Security Adviser Susan Rice and other high-ranking administration officials to discuss developments in Egypt, and also to demand explanations for the leaks that appeared in the New York Times.

Israel Radio, and Yedioth Ahronoth, reports that the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams met again in Jerusalem for a second closed door meetings yesterday in Jerusalem. Although no details of the talks are given, Palestinian sources are quoted as being disgruntled that American mediator Martin Indyk did not attend either yesterday’s meetings or the first meeting last week.

All Israeli papers also cover the nationwide polio inoculation programme after a wild strain of the polio virus was found on Tuesday in a sewage treatment plant in Baqa al-Gharbiyye, near Hadera, marking the northernmost point in which the virus has been sampled. So far the national vaccination project continues, with 48,000 children vaccinated on Tuesday across Israel.