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In Brief: Palestinians go to the polls in rare municipal elections

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Palestinian elections > Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Palestinians took part in rare municipal elections across the West Bank in December, following months of growing discontent towards the Palestinian Authority after the cancellation of long-awaited parliamentary and presidential elections in spring 2021. Some 400,000 Palestinians were eligible to vote to elect representatives for 154 village…

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In Brief: Iran boasts of support for Palestinian terror groups

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Palestinian Territories
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iranian media has marked the anniversary of the 2020 assassination of general Qasem Soleimani by revealing new details about Iran’s support for Palestinian terror groups. An article from the Tasnim News branch in Damascus, Syria, reveals how the Islamic Republic ran guns and technology to Palestinian groups under…

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Analysis: Hope for 2022 as Gantz and Abbas meet in Israel

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The period between Christmas and New Year witnessed the first talks between a senior Israeli official and the Palestinian president in Israel since 2010. What happened Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz hosted Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha’ayin on…

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In Brief: Poll finds corruption the biggest challenge for Palestinians

Posted 15 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA security forces. Image credit: Stop the Wall, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A majority of Palestinians believe that corruption in Palestinian Authority institutions has increased in 2021, according to a public opinion poll published this week. The poll, conducted by the Coalition for Integrity and Accountability at the start of October, also found that many…

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In Brief: Incitement linked to rise in Palestinian terror attacks

Posted 8 December, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israeli flags being burnt in Gaza > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A wave of terror attacks by Palestinians against Israelis in Jerusalem and the West Bank have been linked to an increase in incitement against Israel by Palestinian terror groups. Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other Gaza-based groups have all called for…

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In Brief: Hamas threatens ‘escalation’ against Israel and Egypt

Posted 8 December, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Hamas insignia in Ramallah (Hoheit, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons). Hamas sources said on Monday that the terror group was considering a return to violence against Israel, while also criticising Egypt for its role in brokering a ceasefire to end the conflict in May this year. “We are considering options for an escalation with Israel…

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In Brief: Senior Iranian general calls for destruction of Israel

Posted 30 November, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. A spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, brigadier-general Abolfazl Shekarchi, called for the destruction of Israel in an interview with a regime-friendly media outlet at the weekend. “We will not back off from the annihilation of Israel, even one millimetre. We want to destroy Zionism in the world”, Shekarchi…

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Analysis: Tensions mount as Iran nuclear negotiations resume

Posted 30 November, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Negotiations about Iranian Nuclear Program. Image credit: US State Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Regional tensions in the Middle East have risen in recent days as a seventh round of talks over the resurrection of the Iran nuclear deal, first negotiated in 2015, have begun in Vienna. What’s happening Negotiations resumed on Monday following a five-month hiatus, hoping…

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LFI vice chair: Keir’s stance against BDS and antisemitism is true Labour values

Posted 30 November, 2021 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair Diana Johnson MP has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. The recent speech to the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch by Keir Starmer offered not simply an intellectually coherent outline of his approach to the Middle East but one firmly rooted in our party’s mainstream democratic…

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Analysis: Hamas strikes at the heart of Jerusalem

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Eliyahu David Kay > Facebook, via Times of Israel. A member of Hamas launched a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning, killing one Israeli civilian and wounding four others – including worshippers returning from the Western Wall. What happened  Hamas lauded the attack, in which 26-year-old tour guide Eliyahu David Kay died, as “a…

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