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In Brief: Israel and Jordan agree clean energy-for-water deal at COP27

Posted 9 November, 2022 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
President Isaac Herzog and King Abdullah > Haim Zach / Government Press Office, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel and its eastern neighbour Jordan have agreed to advance a joint green energy and water deal at the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt this week. The agreement, brokered by the United States and UAE, involves…

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LFI chair and shadow Middle East Minister meet Palestinian start-up delegation

Posted 27 October, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This morning, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and shadow Middle East Minister Bambos Charalambous MP met with a UK-Palestinian Tech Hub delegation of Palestinian start-ups to discuss the opportunities and challenges in Palestinian economic development, a vital aspect of working towards the creation of a Palestinian state. They heard about the impact of the unresolved…

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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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LFI launches Steps to a Two State Solution pamphlet

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel is delighted to publish its latest policy briefing, Steps to a Two State Solution.    The two state solution is the only means by which to guarantee Israel’s security and to preserve its identity as a Jewish and democratic state, as well as to satisfy the legitimate demand of the Palestinian people for self-determination and national sovereignty.  …

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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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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: Lapid reaffirms Israel support for two states in UN speech

Posted 28 September, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Yair Lapid (Sapir Academic College, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). Yair Lapid reaffirmed Israel's support for a two-state solution, arguing “peace is not a compromise” as he addressed the UN General Assembly last week. “An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states for two peoples, is the right thing for Israel’s security, for Israel’s economy and for…

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In Brief: Emirati foreign minister marks Abraham Accords anniversary in Israel

Posted 21 September, 2022 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
President Isaac Herzog meets Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan > WAM handout/AFP   UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan made his first visit to Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem last week. The trip was part of a visit to the Jewish state marking two years since the signing of the…

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In Brief: Erdogan indicates plan to visit Israel as ties warm

Posted 21 September, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East
Israeli and Turkish flags > Newtimes.az, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In a further sign of warming ties between Israel and Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated on Monday that he plans to visit the Jewish state. Speaking to a group of American Jewish leaders in New York on Monday, Erdogan also told the room that…

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Steps to a two state solution: Allocate territory in Area C for Palestinian economic development

Posted 9 August, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Thirty: Allocate territory in Area C for Palestinian economic development In Step 22, we proposed to expand the Palestinian autonomous zones of the West Bank (Areas A and B, in which more than 90 percent of the Palestinian population lives) by the phased transfer of some…

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