Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit Israel this week in the latest sign of improving relations between the Jewish state and Turkey. One of the key issues on the agenda is likely to be energy cooperation, following the discovery of natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean in the last decade. Read more…
Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi has sworn to avenge the killing of Hassan Sayad Khodayari, a colonel in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, in Tehran on Sunday. Khodayari was shot five times outside his home by two assailants on motorcycles, according to Iranian state media. Tehran has blamed the killing on “elements linked Read more…
The Biden administration is reportedly brokering a deal to transfer two Red Sea islands from Egypt to Saudi Arabia that could include steps to normalise Saudi-Israeli ties. The treaty would return control of Tiran and Sanafir, which have been leased by Egypt since the 1950s, to Saudi Arabia. The demilitarised Read more…
Israel’s “unity government” strengthened its shaky grip in power on Sunday after a tumultuous week for the ruling coalition. However, storm clouds remain on the horizon for the ideologically eclectic government – which ranges from right-wing nationalists to left-wing Zionists and Arab-Israeli Islamists – as it approaches its first anniversary Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has today called on Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to demand Iraq scrap legislation that would impose the death penalty for “contact and communication of any kind” with Israel and Israelis. Instead, he called for the Foreign Secretary to use the UK’s “deep and longstanding ties Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty: Support free elections in the West Bank and Gaza In 2005, Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian National Authority with a four-year term. The election, which Abbas won by a landslide, was observed by Read more…