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Day: 24 May, 2022

In Brief: Turkish FM visits Israel as Jerusalem-Ankara relations warm

Posted on 24 May, 2022 by lfiIsrael

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 …

Posted in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process

In Brief: Iran pledges to ‘avenge’ assassinated Revolutionary Guards colonel

Posted on 24 May, 2022 by lfiIsrael

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 …

Posted in Analysis, Iran, Middle East

In Brief: Hope for normalisation as part of US-brokered Egypt-Saudi deal

Posted on 24 May, 2022 by lfiIsrael

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 …

Posted in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process

Analysis: Israel’s coalition government lives to fight another week

Posted on 24 May, 2022 by lfiIsrael

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 …

Posted in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics

LFI chair writes to Foreign Secretary on Iraqi anti-Israel legislation

Posted on 24 May, 202226 May, 2022 by lfiIsrael

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 …

Posted in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News

Steps to a two state solution: Support free elections in the West Bank and Gaza

Posted on 24 May, 2022 by lfiIsrael

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 …

Posted in Analysis, Hamas, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process

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