Here’s NBC’s Garrett Haake’s preview of Romney’s international trip: “An impending overseas trip lasting six days provides Mitt Romney with the opportunity to highlight his foreign policy bonafides, but is also fraught with challenges for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, reflecting the delicate nature of international diplomacy.”

On Fox News Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “I will receive Mitt Romney with the same openness that I received another presidential candidate, then-Sen. Barack Obama."

“Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is running short of political cash to spend in the weeks before the parties' nominating conventions because many of his donors have given his campaign as much as they can. However, some of Romney's most prolific donors have found another outlet for their money. Nearly 1 in 10 of the campaign's largest donors also have contributed to Restore Our Future, together giving nearly $16 million to the pro-Romney super PAC, a USA TODAY analysis of new campaign-finance reports finds. The findings highlight the parallel campaign-finance systems operating in this year's presidential election. Candidates face strict limits on what they can collect for their campaigns, even as super PACs run by their friends and former aides raise unlimited sums.”

“Mitt Romney’s plan for taxing multinational corporations would create 800,000 jobs, according to President Barack Obama. On this count, the president is wrong,” the editors of Bloomberg write. “Investment and job growth abroad don’t necessarily mean job losses in the U.S. And more importantly, Romney’s plan to tax multinational corporations only on the income they earn domestically is on the right track. Properly structured, and combined with a lower corporate- income-tax rate, a so-called territorial system could make U.S. companies more competitive, simplify the tax code, reduce compliance costs, boost real wages and enable companies to repatriate the more than $1.2 trillion they are now holding abroad for fear of the tax man.”

Ex-President George W. Bush won’t be attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa, the New York Daily News writes. “President Bush was grateful for the invitation to the Republican National Convention,” spokesman Freddy Ford said. “He supports Gov. (Mitt) Romney and wants him to succeed. President Bush is confident that Mitt Romney will be a great President. But he’s still enjoying his time off the political stage and respectfully declined the invitation to go to Tampa.”

Trying to solve the Ron Paul problem… “Ron Paul supporters have feuded with state Republican parties across the country, battling for delegate seats at the national convention, but the national party is welcoming Paul and his supporters to the event with open arms, even helping the Texas congressman organize his troops,” USA Today says. The Paul campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have been working closely over the past few months to work out logistics in order to include the Texas congressman and his supporters in the August convention in Tampa. ‘They've just treated us like a friend and like a coalition,’ said Jesse Benton, a spokesman for the Paul campaign. ‘They have been honest brokers in working with us and treated us with respect.’”

But: “Despite this cooperation, Paul, unlike all of the other former GOP presidential contenders, has not endorsed Mitt Romney for the nomination. In an interview with the Fox Business network last week, Paul — who is no longer actively campaigning for president but has not officially suspended his bid — said he had ‘not made a decision’ whether he'll vote for Romney in November.”

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender newspaper Bay Windows has devoted this week’s issue to scrutinizing Mitt Romney’s record on gay rights issues, writing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has abandoned the LGBT community,” the Boston Globe notes. The LGBT newspaper writes: “As a Massachusetts candidate (for governor and senator), Romney presented himself as a supporter of gay and lesbian equal rights. Presidential candidate Romney, however, seems to have shed the skin of the old Romney, leaving his fundamental beliefs on fairness along the road to the White House. … Whether you are concerned or unconcerned about gay rights is not the issue. Romney’s ability to transform himself so dramatically is.”

And: “The Romney-centric edition of Bay Windows follows the launch last week of a Web campaign called “Mitt Gets Worse,” which accuses Romney of advancing an ‘extreme anti-LGBT agenda.’”