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Analysis: Gazans reject Hamas tactics, want deal with Israel

Posted 8 November, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Ordinary Gazans oppose the bloody, Hamas-led weekly border protests and want a ceasefire with Israel, newly released polling shows. The research – carried out among representative samples of approximately 500 randomly selected Gazans during early October by the Bethlehem-based Palestine Centre for Public Opinion and by a Ramallah-based organisation – shows the conflict-weary population of the Gaza Strip adopts…

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Analysis: PA and Hamas guilty of “systematic” torture, says human rights group

Posted 31 October, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
The “machineries of repression” utilised by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to crush their opponents and silence dissenters has been detailed in a shocking new report by Human Rights Watch. A two-year investigation by HRW, Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent, accuses both the PA, which runs the West Bank, and Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas, of engaging…

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Analysis: Has the murder of Khashoggi scuppered Trump’s peace plan?

Posted 23 October, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Rarely has an American administration invested such hope in – or kow-towed so nakedly to – a Middle Eastern state in the manner which Donald Trump’s has done since taking office last January. The president’s entire strategy for the region appears to have been shaped by a belief that Saudi Arabia could help him achieve multiple…

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Analysis: PA’s terror salaries condemned after Barkan attack

Posted 11 October, 2018 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
A fatal terror attack that killed two Israeli citizens in the Barkan industrial park in the West Bank has cast a renewed spotlight on the Palestinian Authority's policy of paying salaries to convicted terrorists. Last Sunday a Palestinian worker at the industrial park killed two of his colleagues. Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 28, and Ziv Hajbi, 35,…

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Analysis: Syrian friendly fire incident causes Israel-Russia relationship to sour

Posted 4 October, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The fragile working relationship between Israel and Russia in Syria – which gave Israel freedom of manoeuvre in Syrian skies – has come under severe strain after the downing of a Russian Ilyushin military intelligence plane, killing the 15 servicemen on board. The incident, which occurred in mid-September, saw…

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Huge turnout for LFI conference reception

Posted 26 September, 2018 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel held its biggest ever reception at Labour party conference in Liverpool this week. Over 400 delegates attended a packed event addressed by deputy leader Tom Watson, Israeli Labor MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin, Ambassador Mark Regev, and LFI chair Joan Ryan. In a stirring address, Mr Watson declared: "I am genuinely proud of each and…

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Over 50 Labour MPs write to DFID to express concern over Trump coexistence cuts

Posted 21 September, 2018 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Following the Trump administration’s decision to end all funding for coexistence projects in Israel-Palestine, over 50 Labour MPs have written to DFID Secretary of State Penny Mordaunt to express their serious concern and to call on the UK to help fill the void. You can view a PDF of the letter here.

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Analysis: Trump slashes funding for coexistence projects

Posted 18 September, 2018 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The Trump administration is to end US funding to coexistence programmes that bring Israelis and Palestinians together, it has emerged. The US currently provides $10m for the projects – one quarter of the money invested globally in civil society peace and reconciliation work between Israelis and Palestinians. The American move is part of a wider policy by the…

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