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LFI peers take part in Israeli-Palestinian peace debate

Posted 7 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
A number of LFI peers have this evening taken part in a debate on 'calming the violence and build a lasting peace between the government of Israel and the Palestinian people' in the House of Lords. LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay reminded colleagues of how Iran's support for terrorism in the region…

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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: 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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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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LFI vice-chair reflects on first visit to Israel on LFI delegation

Posted 14 February, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell MP has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. Last week, I travelled to Israel for the first time as part of a delegation organised by Labour Friends of Israel. As we heard repeatedly, our trip comes at a time when the state faces both immense challenges and huge…

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In Brief: Israelis back talks with Palestinians and settlement freeze

Posted 25 January, 2023 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Crown Copyright, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 More than half of the Israeli public would like to see a meeting between prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to a poll commissioned by the Geneva Initiative Israel NGO. When asked whether Israel should enter political talks with the PA, 52.8 percent said yes, while…

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In Brief: Amid speculation, Saudis reaffirm commitment to two-state normalisation

Posted 25 January, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Saudi Arabia will not normalise ties with Israel without progress towards a two-state solution with the Palestinians, the kingdom’s top diplomat asserted last week. The comments by Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, followed reported discussion…

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In Brief: Morocco announces expanded military cooperation with Israel

Posted 18 January, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process
  Map of Morocco > Ian Macky, PAT Atlas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Moroccan military announced this week that it had agreed to strengthen military cooperation with Israel, including in intelligence and cybersecurity, following defence meetings in Rabat. The two countries “agreed to further strengthen cooperation and expand it to other areas, including in intelligence, air…

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LFI parliamentary supporter Kim Leadbeater writes to PM on coexistence fund

Posted 17 January, 2023 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI parliamentary supporter Kim Leadbeater has today written to prime minister Rishi Sunak to push him to pledge UK participation in the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, a longstanding LFI campaign goal. The letter referenced Sunak's comments to Conservative Friends of Israel in December 2022, in which he committed to "explore with our U.S. allies joining…

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In Brief: Oman formally bans ties with Israel amid Iran intimidation

Posted 12 January, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq Al Said > US State Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The parliament of Oman, which has widely been speculated to be a prime candidate for future diplomatic normalisation with Israel, voted last week to criminalise relations or interactions with “the Zionist entity”. The legislation would “severe any economic, sports or…

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