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In Brief: Israel approves plans for 1,303 Palestinian West Bank homes

Posted 3 November, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Construction in Jenin > Guillaume Paumier, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel has advanced plans for 1,303 new homes for Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank on Monday. This was the first authorisation of its kind under the new coalition government came to power in June, and the first since the Biden administration was…

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In Brief: Israel ends travel warning to Morocco following normalisation

Posted 27 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Koutoubia Mosque, Marrakech > Marcin Sochanki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s National Security Council ended a travel warning for Morocco that has been in effect for over a decade. In a statement, the council said the decision was made following an assessment that the threat level to Israelis in Morocco had decreased following diplomatic normalisation…

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In Brief: Israel welcomes Lebanese workers amid economic turmoil

Posted 27 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hezbollah, Israel, Middle East
Olives > PROPOLI87, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Israel announced on Monday that it was opening its border with Lebanon – with which it is technically at war – in order to allow agricultural workers to pick olives. “In light of the economic situation in Lebanon, and as a gesture of goodwill to the Lebanese people,…

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LFI director: Labour must craft a new approach to promoting peace in the Middle East

Posted 22 October, 2021 in Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Labour Foreign Policy Group. Click here to read the original. In the months since President Biden’s inauguration, we’ve already begun to see the difference in his administration’s approach to international affairs. “America First” is out, multilateral engagement is in. Biden is clear that there…

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In Brief: Israeli govt ends residency freeze for 4,000 Palestinians

Posted 21 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Benny Gantz. Image Credit: U.S. Secretary of Defense, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Israel announced this week that it had officially legalised the status of 4,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, ending a decade-long freeze in which almost no requests were authorised under Benjamin Netanyahu. The move was part of the government’s ongoing effort, led by…

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In Brief: Israeli officials express concern over rise in settler crimes

Posted 21 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
Israeli police in Lod. Credit: Israel Police, CC BY-SA 3.0. Israeli defence officials have expressed concern over a dramatic rise in hate crimes and violence by Jewish nationalists in the past two years. Most of the perpetrators appear to be West Bank settlers. Ynet news found that hate crimes increased significantly in 2020 compared with 2019, with a…

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In Brief: Israeli ministers meet with PA to “keep two-state solution alive”

Posted 5 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Nitzan Horowitz > Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Two Israeli ministers from the left-wing Meretz party, Nitzan Horowitz and Isawi Frej, met with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday night. Health minister Horowitz said his party was working to “keep the two-state solution alive” within Israel’s new coalition government, which is led by right-wing…

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In Brief: Iraqi notables call for diplomatic normalisation with Israel

Posted 5 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Iraq base map > ERCC Portal, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. More than 300 prominent Iraqis made an unprecedented plea for regional reconciliation on 25 September, as they called for their country to normalise ties with Israel. “We demand full diplomatic relations with the State of Israel […] and a new policy of normalisation based on…

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In Brief: Palestinian polling shows support for confidence-building

Posted 22 September, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image Credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Some 56 percent of Palestinians approve of recent “confidence-building measures” by the Israeli government, intended to improve everyday life for Palestinians. Polling by Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Survey and Policy Research, found that 56 percent of Palestinians viewed the moves…

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In Brief: Israel and Egypt hold first high-level meeting in a decade

Posted 15 September, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Image credit: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The leaders of Israel and Egypt, Naftali Bennett and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, held the first open talks in a decade on Monday as Bennett flew to Sharm el-Sheik. The leaders discussed rising tensions in Gaza, where both countries have imposed border restrictions in…

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