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In Brief: Palestinians go to the polls in rare municipal elections

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Palestinian elections > Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Palestinians took part in rare municipal elections across the West Bank in December, following months of growing discontent towards the Palestinian Authority after the cancellation of long-awaited parliamentary and presidential elections in spring 2021. Some 400,000 Palestinians were eligible to vote to elect representatives for 154 village…

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In Brief: Iran boasts of support for Palestinian terror groups

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Palestinian Territories
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iranian media has marked the anniversary of the 2020 assassination of general Qasem Soleimani by revealing new details about Iran’s support for Palestinian terror groups. An article from the Tasnim News branch in Damascus, Syria, reveals how the Islamic Republic ran guns and technology to Palestinian groups under…

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Analysis: Hope for 2022 as Gantz and Abbas meet in Israel

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The period between Christmas and New Year witnessed the first talks between a senior Israeli official and the Palestinian president in Israel since 2010. What happened Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz hosted Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha’ayin on…

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Steps to a Two State Solution: Encourage Arab states to normalise relations with Israel and deepen the Abraham Accords

Posted 11 January, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Five: Encourage Arab states to normalise relations with Israel and deepen the Abraham Accords The Abraham Accords – the 2020 agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco to establish diplomatic relations – represent a ground-breaking shift in the relationship between…

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In Brief: Poll finds corruption the biggest challenge for Palestinians

Posted 15 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA security forces. Image credit: Stop the Wall, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A majority of Palestinians believe that corruption in Palestinian Authority institutions has increased in 2021, according to a public opinion poll published this week. The poll, conducted by the Coalition for Integrity and Accountability at the start of October, also found that many…

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In Brief: 2015 JCPOA no longer sufficient for 2022, IAEA warns

Posted 15 December, 2021 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has warned that the restrictions faced by his inspectors in Iran threaten to give the world only a “very blurred image” of Tehran’s program as it enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. In an interview with the Associated Press,…

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In Brief: Israel welcomes Germany’s new government

Posted 15 December, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
German chancellor Olaf Scholz > Olaf Kosinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0-de, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli prime minister this week Naftali Bennett congratulated Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in a phone call on Tuesday. Bennett also extended an invitation to Scholz to visit Israel. The two leaders discussed the important bilateral relationship between their countries, according to the Israeli prime…

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Analysis: Israel and the UAE take it to the next level

Posted 15 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Bennett in the UAE > WAM via Reuters, via NBC News. Naftali Bennett this week became the first Israeli prime minister to pay an official visit to the United Arab Emirates. The prime minister’s trip came just over a year after the signing of the historic Abraham Accords and highlights the increasingly close ties between Israel…

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Steps to a Two State Solution: Support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and re-establish UK support for peace-building work 

Posted 14 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Four: Support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and re-establish UK support for peace-building work Modelled on the highly successful International Fund for Ireland, an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace would allow the international community to lay the civic society foundations for…

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In Brief: Hannukah and Emirati national day celebrated jointly for first time

Posted 8 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Israeli and Emirati students celebrate Hannukah > Sharaka, via Times of Israel Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have celebrated the Jewish festival of Hannukah and Emirati unification day together for the first time since they normalised relations via the Abraham Accords last summer. “Hannukah in the UAE was eight days of miracles”, Rabbi Elie…

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