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In Brief: Confidence in Israeli government collapses amid ongoing protests

Posted 14 March, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benjamin Netanyahu > World Economic Forum / Manuel Lopez, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 February saw a sharp increase in the proportion of Israelis who describe the Jewish state’s overall situation as either bad or very bad, according to the Israeli Democracy Institute’s February 2023 polling. The percentage of Israelis who are optimistic about the future of Israel’s national…

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In Brief: Saudis indicate nuclear programme as price of normalising with Israel

Posted 14 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Saudi Arabia has reportedly asked the United States to approve the development of a civilian nuclear programme in exchange for the kingdom normalising relations with Israel. The demand is the latest in a series of asks put to the US from Riyadh, though such…

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Analysis: Iran-Saudi deal places China’s Middle East role in spotlight

Posted 14 March, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Xi and Khamenei > Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Iran and Saudi Arabia are to re-establish diplomatic relations, following an agreement brokered by China, which has potential implications both for the US’ role in the Middle East and Israel’s hopes of fostering an alliance to challenge Tehran’s bid for regional dominance. What happened The agreement…

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In Brief: Israeli president addresses Middle East’s largest investor event

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Israeli president Isaac Herzog > Elad Brami, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli president Isaac Herzog has praised a summit involving the biggest business delegation from the Gulf which “would have been pure fantasy a few years ago”. Herzog formally opened the OurCrowd summit, the biggest investor event in the Middle East for start-up companies, saying…

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In Brief: Exiled prince pushes UK govt to proscribe Revolutionary Guards

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Labour Party
Reza Pahlavi > Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Reza Pahlavi, the son and heir of the exiled Shah of Iran, has claimed that proscribing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) would have the effect of “pulling out the biggest tooth the regime has”. The IRGC is Tehran’s ideological terror army, founded in 1979 to…

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In Brief: New Palestinian terror factions emerging in the West Bank

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Palestinian militant > atphalix, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Recent violence in the West Bank between the IDF and Palestinian militant groups has witnessed small numbers of young Palestinian men take up arms against Israel in defiance of the Palestinian political leadership. A number of newly emerging groups, many with fluid and overlapping affiliations, have emerged…

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Analysis: Mass protests continue as reservists join battle against Bibi’s legal reforms

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Record numbers of Israelis took part in protests on Saturday night as opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms continues to mount. An estimated 250,000 people took to the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and over 90 other locations. Almost all the reservists in the Israeli air force’s elite Squadron 69 have said they…

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In Brief: Oman opens airspace to Israeli commercial flights for first time

Posted 28 February, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq Al Said > US State Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons An El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Bangkok become the first Israeli airliner to cross over Oman’s airspace on Sunday night, three days after the Gulf state opened its skies to aircraft from all countries, including the Jewish…

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In Brief: Iran unveils new Paveh cruise missiles that can reach Israel

Posted 28 February, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0; via Wikimedia Commons A senior Iranian general unveiled a new cruise missile with a range of 1,650km that could potentially reach Israel in an interview with state TV on Friday, in which he reiterated the Iranian regime’s desire to kill former US president Donald Trump. “Our cruise missile with…

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In Brief: Israeli government slumps in polls amid judicial reform protests

Posted 28 February, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benjamin Netanyahu > Crown Copyright, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The coalition led by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu would lose nine seats and lose its majority in the Knesset if a new election was called, according to a poll released on Friday. The poll was the latest in a series of surveys indicating that the government’s efforts to…

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