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David Lammy addresses London vigil for Israel

Posted 9 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, News
David Lammy addresses rally in London Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy rushed back to London from Labour party conference in Liverpool on Monday to attend a vigil in central London as thousands of people gathered at Downing Street to show their support for Israel. Lammy, told attendees: "I stand amongst you deeply understanding the trauma amongst this…

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LFI chair: Labour can be ambitious in its Middle East policy

Posted 6 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons If Labour wins the next general election, the political and economic landscape of the Middle East will look rather different than when Tony Blair arrived in Downing Street in 1997. Although…

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In Brief: “Basic framework” for Israel-Saudi normalisation in place

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving towards a historic US-brokered deal to normalise diplomatic ties, the White House said on Friday. US President Joe Biden hopes to score an election-year diplomatic victory by securing recognition of the Jewish state by Saudi Arabia next…

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In Brief: Coalition tensions as hard right minister excluded from meetings

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benjamin Netanyahu > World Economic Forum / Manuel Lopez, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted some of Israel's most senior security officials for a meeting at his office on Sunday which excluded national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir. This was not the first time that the hard right nationalist Ben Gvir, whose brief includes authority over…

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Analysis: LFI lays out Middle East policy agenda for next Labour government

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Ahead of Labour’s annual conference next week, LFI has released its latest policy pamphlet: Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government exclusively in the Guardian today. Priorities for the next Labour government Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government offers 26 policy recommendations to a wide range of issues relevant to the…

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Analysis: Israel-Saudi speculation bubbles as UN convenes

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As the UN General Assembly convened last week, longstanding speculation around the potential for a normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia has reached a fever pitch. What happened On Wednesday, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman claimed in an interview with Fox News that…

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In Brief: Palestinian terrorists better armed than PA security forces

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Children at PIJ summer camp in Khan Younis > SAID KHATIB / AFP, via Times of Israel The UN's special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, reported that terror groups in the West Bank are currently better armed than the Palestinian Authority security forces. He told the World Summit of Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya that…

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In Brief: Netanyahu to meet Erdogan at UN General Assembly sidelines

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
Recep Tayyip Erdogan > Government of Chile, CC BY 3.0 CL, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly meet Turkey’s recently re-elected president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the UN General Assembly. The two leaders were due to meet in July, but Netanyahu postponed his visit after undergoing surgery to have a pacemaker implanted. The visit…

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Labour Lords champion UK support for Abraham Accords

Posted 14 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour's shadow Lords FCDO spokesperson, Lord Collins of Highbury In today's House of Lords debate on UK support for the Abraham Accords, two Labour peers urged the UK government to more proactively support the Accords on the global stage. Lord Mendelsohn declared the Accords "one of the single most transformational moments in the Middle East", and urged…

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In Brief: Likud members said to object to Haredi draft law, potentially imperilling government

Posted 13 September, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Israel's parliament, the Knesset. Source: צילום: איציק אדרי A rift is beginning to open within the coalition government. The non-haredi parties, Likud, Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit, are facing serious threats from the Haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ), that would end the coalition government and lead to an election being called. The disagreement is over…

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