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Abraham Accords

Ministers push for aid to hostages and hope for Abraham Accords

At today’s Foreign Office Questions session, the Foreign Secretary and Middle East Minister set out the government’s view that humanitarian aid must reach the remaining hostages in Gaza, and around the future of the Abraham Accords. On the former, Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer said: “Aid can be delivered effectively Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 1 day24 June, 2025 ago

Middle East Minister: “No role for Hamas in the future of Gaza”

At today’s statement from on the visit of Palestinian Authority prime minister Mustafa, Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer discussed a number of points of UK policy towards the Middle East. He began: “During the visit, we reaffirmed our unwavering commitment to advancing a two-state solution as the only pathway to Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 2 months29 April, 2025 ago

LFI chair: Why the Abraham Accords still matter

LFI chair Jon Pearce MP has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. As chair of Labour Friends of Israel, last week I became the first British MP to travel between Israel and the UAE – an unimaginable reality before the historic Abraham Accords in 2020.  Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 3 months2 April, 2025 ago

LFI chair Jon Pearce makes history as first MP to fly from Israel to the UAE 

LFI chair Jon Pearce became the first British MP to travel directly between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on a visit to the region this week.  While in Israel, the Labour MP for High Peak met with Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, opposition leader Yair Lapid, and the leader of the Democrats, Yair Golan, as Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 3 months28 March, 2025 ago

LFI chair: We must act urgently to stop Iran producing a nuclear bomb

LFI chair Jon Pearce MP has written the below article for PoliticsHome. Click here to read the original. The UK and its allies are running out of time to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. With the world’s attention focused on the devastating war that began on 7 October 2023, Iran has Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 4 months25 February, 2025 ago

After the War: Marginalising the Enemies of Peace

LFI today publishes After the War: Marginalising the Enemies of Peace, a policy paper on what needs to be done after the Gaza war to marginalise the enemies of peace.   For Britain, Europe and pragmatic Arab states, the foundational principle – that a negotiated two-state solution offers the only long-term Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 6 months19 December, 2024 ago

Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis: Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”

The war launched by Hamas on 7 October has brought about an unprecedented level of coordination between Iran’s proxies, forcing Israel to fight a multi-front conflict for close to a year.   In this paper, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis: Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”, we outline the origins of, and explain Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 10 months12 September, 2024 ago

LFI statement on Iran’s aggression in the Middle East

The rising tension in the Middle East has fundamentally one root cause: the Iranian regime’s four-decade-long visceral hatred of Israel and its desire to extend its power and influence throughout the region. Through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran funds, arms, trains and directs “the axis of resistance”, a network Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 11 months5 August, 2024 ago

Analysis: Gaza war enters new phase as Netanyahu rejects permanent reoccupation

The conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Hamas terror group will on Sunday reach one hundred days since the 7 October attacks. On the ground: Israel’s leadership has indicated a shift in its military campaign against Hamas, moving from intense battles to more targeted operations. Both defence minister Yoav Gallant and Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 1 year15 January, 2024 ago

LFI Lords chair: A war for the future of the Middle East

LFI chair in the House of Lords Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale has written the below article for the Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Hamas’ brutal assault of Saturday 7th October did not just trigger a war between the terror group and Israel. Instead, as a newly published paper Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 1 year15 January, 2024 ago

LFI chair: Labour can be ambitious in its Middle East policy

LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original. If Labour wins the next general election, the political and economic landscape of the Middle East will look rather different than when Tony Blair arrived in Downing Street in 1997. Although already Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 2 years6 October, 2023 ago

In Brief: “Basic framework” for Israel-Saudi normalisation in place

Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving towards a historic US-brokered deal to normalise diplomatic ties, the White House said on Friday. US President Joe Biden hopes to score an election-year diplomatic victory by securing recognition of the Jewish state by Saudi Arabia next year. “All sides have hammered out, I Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 2 years5 October, 2023 ago

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