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Analysis: Hamas’ ruthless crackdown on dissent

Posted 12 October, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
  The effort to broker a reconciliation deal between Hamas and Fatah returned to Cairo this week. This morning, it was announced that that the two sides had reached an agreement, and more negotiations would take place next week. At the outset of this latest round of talks between the two sides, which are being brokered by Egypt, the head of the…

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Analysis: Hezbollah prepares for war

Posted 5 October, 2017 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel
  This week’s warning by Hassan Nasrallah that Jews should flee Israel before it is devastated by war is just one of the Hezbollah leader’s many sabre-rattling utterances. In February, he warned that there would be “no red lines” in any future conflict between the terror group and Israel. In April, he boasted of his organisation’s preparedness for war,…

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Analysis: Who wins from a Palestinian reconciliation plan?

Posted 20 September, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
  Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons In the 10 years since Hamas executed its bloody coup and seized control of Gaza, the terror group and President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement have attempted to patch up their differences on many occasions. But agreements aimed at restoring Palestinian unity at Mecca in 2007, Sana’a in 2008, Cairo…

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Analysis: The link between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism

Posted 13 September, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel
The link between anti-semitism and anti-Israel  attitudes has been long debated and hotly contested. To some the connection is self-evident. Seeking to demonise and delegitimise Israel , to question the right to exist of the world’s only Jewish state to exist and to deny the Jews’ right to self-determination is the very essence of “modern anti-semitism”. Others view…

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Analysis: Can Mohammad Dahlan end the Gaza crisis?

Posted 6 September, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  The humanitarian situation in Gaza is reaching crisis point. 96% of water in the enclave is unfit for human consumption, and the strip receives only four to six hours of electricity per day. A significant portion of the money pledged for reconstruction in Gaza after the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel  has not yet reached the strip,…

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Analysis: Kushner’s Middle East foray

Posted 30 August, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The bland statements issued from Jerusalem, Ramallah and Washington last week gave no hint to the success of otherwise of the US’ latest attempt to push a peace initiative in the Middle East. Following talks last week in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Israel and Palestine by the administration’s special envoy, Jason Greenblatt and…

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Analysis: Hamas’ never-ending war

Posted 17 August, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
  This month sees two significant and related anniversaries. Twelve years ago this week Israel began its unilateral pull out from the Gaza Strip, while 26 August marks the third anniversary of the end of Operation Protective Edge, the 50-day bloody conflict waged by the Jewish state to stop Hamas’ rocket attacks. The Gaza withdrawal and its…

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Analysis: The end of the road for Bibi?

Posted 10 August, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benjamin Netanyahu’s long domination of Israeli politics may finally be drawing to a close as a series of corruption scandals threaten to consume his premiership. The peril facing the prime minister mounted last week as police revealed that he is a suspect in two bribery and breach of trust investigations. Netanyahu has been under investigation for…

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Analysis: Israel’s Syria aid effort revealed

Posted 7 August, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
The full extent of a massive humanitarian effort by Israel to assist thousands of Syrians on its northern border has been revealed. Over the past six years, Israel has studiously avoided being dragged into the brutal civil war, while keeping a watchful eye on Iranian expansionism into the conflict-ravaged country and launching occasional strikes aimed at…

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Analysis: Coexistence projects are key to building peace

Posted 20 July, 2017 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This article by LFI chair Rt Hon. Joan Ryan MP first featured in the JewishNews. Click here to read it.  This week’s announcement by the government that it will invest up to £3 million over the next three years in coexistence projects which bring together Israelis and Palestinians represents a huge step forward in Labour Friends of Israel’s…

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