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In Brief: UAE ministers arrive in Israel after ratification of Abraham Accords

Posted 20 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
  Photo: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons A high-level delegation of ministers from the United Arab Emirates arrived in Israel on Tuesday – the first-ever official such visit. It followed the parliamentary ratification by Bahrain and the UAE on Monday of their normalisation agreements with the Jewish state. The Knesset gave its assent…

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In Brief: Israel hands PA control of three West Bank power stations

Posted 20 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Photo: OneArmedMan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Israel has given the Palestinian Authority control over three power stations in a bid to help stabilise and boost the supply of electricity to the West Bank. The three power stations – in Tarqumiyah, near Hebron, Qalandiyah, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and Nablus – were handed over by the Israel…

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LFI Chair writes to Foreign Secretary re: Iran arms embargo expiry

Posted 19 October, 2020 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, News
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Steve McCabe MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, has written a letter to the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab MP, expressing deep concern about the lifting of the UN arms embargo on Iran. In the letter, Steve McCabe expresses his huge disappointment that it has "not been…

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Analysis: The arms embargo on Iran ends this weekend – what next? 

Posted 14 October, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Photo: Tasnimnews, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A decade-old ban on the sale of conventional arms to Iran will come to an end this Sunday, potentially opening the way for Russia and China to assist the Islamic Republic in a major, potentially hugely destabilising, expansion and advancement of its military capability. Since 2010, the supply of…

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In Brief: EU tells PA to accept tax revenues from Israel and resume security ties

Posted 14 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The European Union has said it won’t bail out the Palestinian Authority with additional aid for so long as it refuses to accept tax revenues collected by Israel, it has been reported. President Mahmoud Abbas announced in May that the PA would stop accepting $150m a month in tax…

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In Brief: Lebanon and Israel aim to tackle maritime dispute in first talks in 30 years

Posted 14 October, 2020 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Image: Haidar Almoqdad,CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Officials representing Israel and Lebanon sat down for their first talks in three decades this week. The discussions, hosted by the United Nations and mediated by the US, took place close to the border between Israel and Lebanon. Although sat in the same room, the Lebanese have insisted…

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In Brief: MEPs urge EU to get tough with PA on controversial curriculum

Posted 14 October, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Photo courtesy IMPACT-se More than 20 members of the European parliament from 15 nations have urged the European Union to partially withhold funding from the PA until Ramallah makes sweeping changes to its controversial school curriculum. The new curriculum, introduced in 2017, incites violence, glorifies terrorism and contains antisemitic content. The UK government has admitted its aid…

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Analysis: What would Joe Biden mean for Israel?

Posted 7 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Both Donald Trump and his supporters have repeatedly attempted to paint the Democratic party as anti-Israel and suggested that the election of Joe Biden would be detrimental to the Jewish state. This weekend, David Friedman, the US ambassador to Israel, went further and suggested that a victory for the…

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In Brief: Israeli foreign minister urges PA to return to negotiating table

Posted 7 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israel’s foreign minister urged the Palestinians to “return to the negotiating table” this week. Gabi Ashkenazi was speaking after his historic first meeting with the United Arab Emirates foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, in Berlin on Tuesday. “Only through direct negotiations can we advance a solution for the conflict,” Ashkenazi, a member of…

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In Brief: Two-thirds of Israelis disapprove of Netanyahu’s handling of covid crisis

Posted 7 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israeli Politics
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Sixty-five percent of Israelis believe Benjamin Netanyahu is responding poorly to the coronavirus crisis, a poll released this week shows. The Channel 12 News survey found only 31 percent of Israelis approve of the prime minister’s handling of the crisis, which has seen the country forced into a…

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