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LFI Chair Joan Ryan MP writes to Richard Burden MP regarding the Gaza crisis

Posted 19 October, 2017 in Hamas, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Joan Ryan MP, parliamentary chair of LFI, has written a reply to Richard Burden MP regarding a letter to Middle East minister Alistair Burt on the Gaza crisis. Ms Ryan writes that she shares Mr Burden's concern for the humanitarian situation in the Gaza strip and agrees that the recent deterioration in living conditions is unacceptable. However, Ms Ryan's…

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Analysis: Fatah and Hamas – Deal or no deal?

Posted 19 October, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
  Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons One week after its signing, the agreement reached between Hamas and Fatah last week – accompanied by pictures of handshakes between the two sides in Cairo and celebrations in the streets of Gaza – is already throwing up many unanswered questions. The deal formalised the previous agreement that the Palestinian…

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LFI chair Joan Ryan MP raises Hezbollah in Parliament

Posted 17 October, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Iran
During October's Foreign and Commonwealth Office questions in the House of Commons, LFI chair Joan Ryan MP questioned Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt MP on the threat Hezbollah poses to both Israel and the Middle East. Joan asked "does the Minister agree that Hezbollah poses a serious threat to Israel’s security and presents a significant…

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Analysis: Hamas’ ruthless crackdown on dissent

Posted 12 October, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
  The effort to broker a reconciliation deal between Hamas and Fatah returned to Cairo this week. This morning, it was announced that that the two sides had reached an agreement, and more negotiations would take place next week. At the outset of this latest round of talks between the two sides, which are being brokered by Egypt, the head of the…

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Analysis: Hezbollah prepares for war

Posted 5 October, 2017 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel
  This week’s warning by Hassan Nasrallah that Jews should flee Israel before it is devastated by war is just one of the Hezbollah leader’s many sabre-rattling utterances. In February, he warned that there would be “no red lines” in any future conflict between the terror group and Israel. In April, he boasted of his organisation’s preparedness for war,…

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Stand by your friends, Israeli MK urges at LFI reception

Posted 28 September, 2017 in Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News, Peace process
Labour should stand by its friends on the Israeli left, Labor MK Stav Shaffir told a packed LFI reception on Tuesday night. Ms Shaffir, a rising star in the Israeli Labor party, was in Brighton for the Labour party’s annual conference. “When sister-parties turn their backs at the progressive camp, they don’t help Israel, they don’t help…

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Analysis: Who wins from a Palestinian reconciliation plan?

Posted 20 September, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
  Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons In the 10 years since Hamas executed its bloody coup and seized control of Gaza, the terror group and President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement have attempted to patch up their differences on many occasions. But agreements aimed at restoring Palestinian unity at Mecca in 2007, Sana’a in 2008, Cairo…

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Analysis: The link between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism

Posted 13 September, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel
The link between anti-semitism and anti-Israel  attitudes has been long debated and hotly contested. To some the connection is self-evident. Seeking to demonise and delegitimise Israel , to question the right to exist of the world’s only Jewish state to exist and to deny the Jews’ right to self-determination is the very essence of “modern anti-semitism”. Others view…

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Analysis: Can Mohammad Dahlan end the Gaza crisis?

Posted 6 September, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  The humanitarian situation in Gaza is reaching crisis point. 96% of water in the enclave is unfit for human consumption, and the strip receives only four to six hours of electricity per day. A significant portion of the money pledged for reconstruction in Gaza after the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel  has not yet reached the strip,…

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