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

Posted 12 September, 2024 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Middle East, News
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 the threat posed by, Iranian…

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LFI statement on Iran’s aggression in the Middle East

Posted 5 August, 2024 in Abraham Accords, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Middle East, News
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 of proxy armies, including Hezbollah,…

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

Posted 15 January, 2024 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
IDF troops in operation protective edge 2023. (Israel Defense Forces), via WikiMedia 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…

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

Posted 15 January, 2024 in Abraham Accords, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
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. LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay 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 from Labour…

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

Posted 6 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons 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…

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

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 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…

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Analysis: LFI lays out Middle East policy agenda for next Labour government

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Ahead of Labour’s annual conference next week, LFI has released its latest policy pamphlet: Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government exclusively in the Guardian today. Priorities for the next Labour government Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government offers 26 policy recommendations to a wide range of issues relevant to the…

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Analysis: Israel-Saudi speculation bubbles as UN convenes

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As the UN General Assembly convened last week, longstanding speculation around the potential for a normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia has reached a fever pitch. What happened On Wednesday, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman claimed in an interview with Fox News that…

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In Brief: Saudis push for two states as part of normalisation deal

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 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…

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Labour Lords champion UK support for Abraham Accords

Posted 14 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour's shadow Lords FCDO spokesperson, Lord Collins of Highbury In today's House of Lords debate on UK support for the Abraham Accords, two Labour peers urged the UK government to more proactively support the Accords on the global stage. Lord Mendelsohn declared the Accords "one of the single most transformational moments in the Middle East", and urged…

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