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Analysis: PA’s terror payments revealed

Posted 1 June, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The full extent of the Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying “salaries” to terrorists and their families was revealed this week, with the bill said to have exceeded $1bn over the last four years. The figure was revealed by Brig.-Gen (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, a former director general of Israel ’s Ministry of…

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Analysis: Trump’s new “special relationship”

Posted 25 May, 2017 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
There are few better examples of the yawning gap between Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric and governing reality than his approach towards Israel . After eight years of Barack Obama’s alleged cool indifference, the Israeli  right were led to believe they would have a “true friend” in the White House once again: one who would stop nagging them about…

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Analysis: What chance for Trump’s “ultimate deal”?

Posted 10 May, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Donald Trump’s quixotic attempt to broker what he once he termed the “ultimate deal” – a peace agreement between Israel  and the Palestinians – bore its first tentative signs of success this week when President Mahmoud Abbas indicated he was prepared to begin talks with Benjamin Netanyahu. The Palestinian president’s announcement came during meetings in Ramallah with…

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Analysis: Pressure increases over PA terrorist salaries

Posted 3 May, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
LFI chair Joan Ryan MP has written to Theresa May, urging the government to ensure that the Palestinian Authority does not pay a salary to the man who murdered British student Hannah Bladon in Jerusalem last month.  This practice, enshrined in Palestinian law and first exposed in 2011, has been widely condemned by the international…

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Analysis: Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike continues

Posted 26 April, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti announced last week that he was going on hunger strike, accepting only water and salt. Palestinian officials say Barghouti’s health is "dangerously deteriorating" and that he is refusing Israeli medical treatment and food. This dramatic move has garnered the support of 1,000 of his fellow prisoners who are striking alongside him.…

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Analysis: Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike continues

Posted 26 April, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti announced last week that he was going on hunger strike, accepting only water and salt. Palestinian officials say Barghouti’s health is "dangerously deteriorating" and that he is refusing Israeli medical treatment and food. This dramatic move has garnered the support of 1,000 of his fellow prisoners who are striking alongside him.…

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Analysis: Hamas mulls cosmetic changes to its charter

Posted 19 April, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
Hamas’ attempt to re-write their charter looks no closer to resolution as the militant group remains divided on proposed changes. Reformists within the group are trying to remove a series of anti-semitic clauses and include a provisional acceptance of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. These changes, however, have been met with opposition from…

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Analysis: Israel announces settlement restrictions

Posted 6 April, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
After weeks of negotiations, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last week a new framework on settlement construction in the West Bank. Citing the wishes of the new American administration to see settlement building curtailed, Netanyahu announced that any new construction will be limited to within existing settlement boundaries. Where this is not possible, new…

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