US secretary of state Antony Blinken claimed last week that any potential normalisation agreement between the Saudis and Israel would have to include steps towards a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Blinken stressed his view that if the Israel-Saudi normalisation process is “to move forward, the Palestinian piece is going Read more…
The UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, reported that terror groups in the West Bank are currently better armed than the Palestinian Authority security forces. He told the World Summit of Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya that there is a “very significant uptick in the availability of very Read more…
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly meet Turkey’s recently re-elected president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the UN General Assembly. The two leaders were due to meet in July, but Netanyahu postponed his visit after undergoing surgery to have a pacemaker implanted. The visit would have been the first by Read more…
One year on from the death in Iranian police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, Iran remains an international pariah posing threats on numerous fronts. What happened Crackdown Meanwhile… International actionIn the absence of a revived nuclear deal with Iran – an ambition Joe Biden campaigned on in 2020, but which has been Read more…
This evening, a number of Labour parliamentarians attended a pre-screening in Parliament of ‘Golda’, Guy Nattiv’s upcoming film about the courageous leadership of Israeli Labor prime minister Golda Meir (1969-1973) during the 1971 Yom Kippur War. The event was organised by the UK-Israel APPG with LFI vice-chair Sharon Hodgson MP Read more…