Today’s coverage of Israel in the UK media is dominated by the disagreements between Israel and the US over Iran. The Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent, and Guardian focus on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments yesterday and the rift they expose between Israel and the US. Netanyahu said that if the international community is unwilling to set a red line for Iran’s nuclear programme, it did not have the right to set a red line before Israel in acting to defend itself. The Times reports that President Obama has rejected a request to meet Netanyahu when he visits the US to address the UN General Assembly at the end of the month, a claim rejected by Washington. The FT also reports comments from US Today’s coverage of Israel in the UK media is dominated by the disagreements between Israel and the US over Iran. The Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent, and Guardian focus on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments yesterday and the rift they expose between Israel and the US. Netanyahu said that if the international community is unwilling to set a red line for Iran’s nuclear programme, it did not have the right to set a red line before Israel in acting to defend itself. The Times reports that President Obama has rejected a request to meet Netanyahu when he visits the US to address the UN General Assembly at the end of the month, a claim rejected by Washington. The FT also reports comments from US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta that the US would have at least a year to act against Iran if it decided to build a nuclear weapon. The Independent has a report on the role played by the issue of support for Israel in the US presidential election. The Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror report that John Sawers, head of MI6, was the UK official who was reported in Haaretz yesterday to have visited Israel to discuss Iran last month.

Meanwhile both the FT and the Guardian have reports on the protests against the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank over cost of living, and the pressure it is placing on Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

Online the Times, Guardian and BBC cover the violence at US missions in Cairo and Benghazi in protest at an amateur anti-Islamic film, with a US official being killed in Benghazi. The FT has a report on the divisions in Egypt over the drafting of a new constitution, whilst the Guardian reports that William Hague will step in to recover assets moved by former regime figures to Britain. The Independent and the Telegraph cover a visit by Angelina Jolie to Syrian refugees in Jordan, with the Independent also reporting the planned visit of new international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi to meet the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad.

Israeli print media is similarly dominated by the rift between Netanyahu and the Obama administration over Iran. Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Haaretz lead with the fact that Obama does not plan to meet with Netanyahu when the Israeli PM visits the US. Haaretz describes US-Israel relations as being in ‘deep crisis’, whilst Yediot Ahronot and Maariv speculates that Netanyahu is attempting to undermine Obama politically during the US elections. Meanwhile Israel Hayom and Makor Rishon focus on divisions between Netanyahu and Israel’s defence minister Ehud Barak, who has not backed Netanyahu’s demands for a red line from the US on and has called for disagreements to be kept private. Israel Hayom quotes vice-Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon accusing Barak of acting based on political motivations. The broadcast media in Israel and the newspapers online move the story on this morning, widely reporting that Netanyahu and Obama spoke yesterday in a phone call. Meanwhile Haaretz online, and Israel Radio report that Israel will provide a 250 million NIS advance on tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority to help ease their financial crisis. Israeli media yesterday picked up a report from Al Hayat that Hamas would be permitted to open a bureau in Cairo.