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Analysis: Qassem Soleimani’s bloody legacy for Iran and the region

Posted 9 January, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
Photo: khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by the United States last week, has been described as the “single most powerful operative in the Middle East today”. His two-decade leadership of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp’s Quds Force has seen the Islamic Republic’s influence and power in the region seemingly expand –…

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Analysis: What does Tehran’s terror army in Gaza want?

Posted 15 May, 2019 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Israelis and Palestinians have already paid a high price for the mounting tensions between Iran and the United States. According to The Times this week, “a key meeting” was recently held in Beirut between Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Al-Quds Brigade, and Ziyad al-Nakhalah, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The apparent result: last weekend’s barrage of…

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Analysis: Fragile ceasefire after renewed Gaza violence

Posted 8 May, 2019 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
A weekend of violence – in which nearly 700 rockets, missiles and mortars were fired from Gaza towards Israel, purposefully targeting Israeli civilians – has given way this week to a tense ceasefire. Four Israeli civilians were killed and 142 were injured, including four in critical condition. Palestinian medical officials reported 27 deaths since Friday, including 16…

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Analysis: Hamas’ violent double-game on display

Posted 20 March, 2019 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Hamas’ twin-track strategy – to bring calm to Gaza while stoking terror in the West Bank – has been on graphic display over the past week. Leaders of the terror group, which rules the coastal enclave, were in talks with senior Egyptian intelligence officials on Thursday evening when two rockets were fired from the Strip at…

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Ambassador Regev’s Speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2018

Posted 28 November, 2018 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch, 27 November 2018 Remarks by the Ambassador of Israel, HE Mark Regev. Check against delivery. Chief Rabbi, Chair of the Jewish Agency, Isaac Herzog, Deputy Leader, Tom Watson, Chair of LFI, Joan Ryan, Parliamentarians and friends, And a very special thanks to Sir David and Isaac for helping bring us together today. We gather in…

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Joan Ryan speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2018

Posted 27 November, 2018 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch 2018   Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Regev, friends Thank you to all of you for being here today. In particular, I want to thank Sir David Garrard and Isaac Kaye, our long-standing lunch sponsors. I also want to thank all of my parliamentary colleagues who have joined us; Our chair in…

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Analysis: Gazans reject Hamas tactics, want deal with Israel

Posted 8 November, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Ordinary Gazans oppose the bloody, Hamas-led weekly border protests and want a ceasefire with Israel, newly released polling shows. The research – carried out among representative samples of approximately 500 randomly selected Gazans during early October by the Bethlehem-based Palestine Centre for Public Opinion and by a Ramallah-based organisation – shows the conflict-weary population of the Gaza Strip adopts…

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Analysis: PA and Hamas guilty of “systematic” torture, says human rights group

Posted 31 October, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
The “machineries of repression” utilised by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to crush their opponents and silence dissenters has been detailed in a shocking new report by Human Rights Watch. A two-year investigation by HRW, Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent, accuses both the PA, which runs the West Bank, and Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas, of engaging…

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