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Preparing for a second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic and how to deal with the Corona epidemic remains the main issue that worries British newspapers.
Issues relating to the Middle East have also emerged, including the Palestinian response to the recent agreements between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain.
Let’s start with a report by Oliver Holmes in the Guardian newspaper entitled “We Feel Lacked”, which deals with some of the Palestinian reactions to the normalization of Israel’s relations with the two Gulf states.
The writer claims that recent diplomatic developments between Israel and the Gulf states have highlighted divisions in the relationship between Palestinians and Arab governments and raised questions about whether they could be relied upon to defend the Palestinian cause.
Over the years, he says, Israel has sought strong ties to the Arab world, focusing on the powerful Gulf states with which it shares a common enemy: Iran.
And he adds that these efforts led Bahrain and the UAE to sign agreements with Israel last week during a celebration at the White House.
The writer says that while there were previously undeclared relations between the two countries and Israel, public relations shattered Israel’s widespread isolation in the region, a policy that has lasted decades and the Palestinian leadership has seen it as a lever. vital in its struggle for independence.
“We certainly feel betrayed and disappointed,” a prominent Palestinian politician, Saeb Erekat, told the newspaper. He condemned the agreements, describing them as “a great encouragement for the Israeli government to continue its occupation.”
The writer says that under the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, Arab countries declared that Israel would not achieve “normal” relations except in exchange for creating a state for the Palestinians and ending the occupation. The Palestinian ambassador to Britain warned that this long-term policy has now been undermined.
The writer says that the normalization agreements in the West Bank and Gaza came as no surprise, but nevertheless they were painful.
The newspaper quoted Shadi Abu Samra (35), a social worker from Ramallah, as saying: “Relationships are based on pure interest … Nobody cares about the Palestinian cause.”
“I’m not surprised at all. It was once expected. There have been relations for a long time between Israel and the Gulf states,” he added.
Dalia Karazon, a math teacher from the same city, told the paper she understood that the Gulf states wanted to build a front against Iran with the help of Israel and also to please Trump.
But what frustrated Dalia is that the UAE and Bahrain said the deals would help the Palestinians, according to the Guardian.
Dalia added: “They can do what they want, but they shouldn’t connect it to our interest, because our interest is to end the occupation and not reconcile with it.”
Divide on how to respond to a second wave
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We turn to Daily I and a report by Paul Gallagher, the newspaper’s health correspondent, on the divisions between leading British medical experts on how to respond to a second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic.
The writer says that with the onset of the second wave of the epidemic, a clear divide has appeared between health experts, scientists, politicians and the public regarding the closure measures and precautionary measures necessary to prevent a repetition of what happened last spring when thousands of people have died from the Coronavirus infection.
The writer says British officials have received two open letters from top health experts explaining the extent of the polarization of views regarding confrontation with the epidemic.
According to a group of doctors and academics, the best way is to protect the most vulnerable groups and take more local or national blocking measures.
They point out that the vast majority (89%) of Corona deaths occur in people over the age of 65 who already have health problems and want targeted measures such as protecting nursing homes to be a priority.
A second group of health experts believes that the government should continue efforts to limit the spread of the virus to all groups and the entire population, and not just provide support for the age groups most vulnerable to the disease.
He says deaths from the virus occurred in all age and ethnic groups and among people with no underlying disease.
Medieval techniques
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In The Independent, we read a report on the rebuilding process of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which was badly damaged by a fire in 2019.
The newspaper claims that with limitless precision and energy, a team of carpenters used medieval techniques to successfully complete by hand and without the use of innovative techniques by lifting a huge three-ton oak pillar in front of the cathedral, which l crew tries to reconstruct an exact replica of the parts devoured by the fire.
The document states that carpenters and craftsmen have used in full compliance with the methods used 800 years ago to build wooden structures and buttresses in the cathedral.
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