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LFI chair: Steps to a Two State Solution: Positive ways to restart the search for peace

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons This year saw the 30th anniversary of the election victory that brought Yitzhak Rabin to power in Israel. Three short years later, after a rare period of hope that the tragic conflict…

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In Brief: Hamas revives ties with Assadist Syria in anti-Israel ‘axis’

Posted 13 October, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Bashar al-Assad > Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Palestinian terror group Hamas has revived relations with the Assad regime in Syria following a decade’s freeze sparked by the Syrian civil war. Hamas, founded in 1987, is committed to Israel’s destruction and its replacement with an Islamic state. The group seized power in the Gaza Strip…

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In Brief: Israel condemns Russia for massive missile barrage across Ukraine

Posted 13 October, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
Yair Lapid > Sapir Academic College, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid on Monday said that he “strongly condemns” Russia’s barrage of fatal bombardments across Ukraine, which he said targeted “the civilian population in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine”. Lapid added that he offered his “sincere condolences to the families of the…

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In Brief: In first, Israel agrees maritime border deal with Lebanon

Posted 13 October, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hezbollah, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
Noa natural gas field > Uri Kfir, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons US president Joe Biden this week congratulated Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid and Lebanese president Michel Aoun on a deal to establish the first mutually agreed boundary between the two countries, ending a decades-long maritime dispute. “You’re making history”, Biden told Lapid, according to…

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Analysis: Regime cracks down as Iranian protests swell

Posted 13 October, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. As the mounting protests ignited by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini enter their fourth week, the Iranian regime appears to be intensifying its crackdown, reportedly using firearms and teargas indiscriminately. What happened The death toll across the country is now reported to exceed 185 with reports that the…

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In Brief: Lapid refutes Netanyahu criticism of Lebanon maritime deal

Posted 4 October, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hezbollah, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East
Noa natural gas field > Uri Kfir, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid has accused opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu of supporting the Hezbollah terror group’s propaganda in his criticism of an emergent agreement to demarcate Israel’s maritime border with Lebanon. The step, which was been reported over the weekend, would allow both…

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In Brief: At least 133 people killed in Iranian protests over Mahsa Amini death

Posted 4 October, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ebrahim Raisi > Mehr News Agency, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons At least 92 people have been killed nationwide in Iran’s crackdown on two weeks of protests that have emerged in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by the regime’s morality police, according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR)…

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In Brief: Israel considers law of return reform for Russians fleeing draft

Posted 4 October, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Avigdor Lieberman > Jim Mattis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s government will this week debate broadening its Law of Return to make it easier for Russian draft dodgers to make Aliyah. In the month since Vladimir Putin announced a call up of reservists, some 6,500 Russian citizens have arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, according to…

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Labour Party Conference 2022: an LFI recap

Posted 4 October, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Keir Starmer last week thanked Labour Friends of Israel for “giving him the space” he needed to tackle antisemitism in the party, as he addressed a packed LFI conference reception at Labour party conference in Liverpool.He heralded LFI’s work: “when we go back into government, and we will, you’ll be inscribed on the foundation stone…

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In Brief: Children among dead as Tehran launches crackdown on protests

Posted 28 September, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. More than 75 people have been killed in Iran as the hardline regime launches a crackdown against protests sparked by the death of a Kurdish woman in a detention centre. Amnesty International said on Monday that at least four children had been killed by the security forces since…

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