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Analysis: Gantz gets his chance

Posted 23 October, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
ראובן קפוצ'ינסקי, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s opposition leader, Benny Gantz, will this evening be formally invited to form a government by President Reuven Rivlin. The president made the move after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to assemble a coalition in the required 28 days. Netanyahu did not request a 14-day extension. It is the second time…

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Analysis: What Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds means for Israel

Posted 15 October, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
Photo: Kurdishstruggle, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons President Trump’s decision last week to abandon the Kurds and give the green light to Turkey’s invasion of north-eastern Syria has sent shockwaves through the Middle East, including in Israel. Even as the US now apparently scrambles to rein Turkey in, the impact of the president’s actions may be…

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Analysis: Hezbollah’s precision missile project menaces Israel

Posted 8 October, 2019 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel
Photo: khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “The enemy is on the defensive — we have always been on the defensive, now we are in attack mode,” Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah (pictured), declared last week. Although he has often issued blood-curdling threats against Israel, this was no mere sabre-rattling by the terror group head. As a newly…

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Analysis: Bibi teeters on the brink

Posted 2 October, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Benjamin Netanyahu’s decade-long spell in power may be coming to an end. A pre-indictment hearing into charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust levelled against the Israeli prime minister commenced in Jerusalem today, as his attempts to form a government following inconclusive elections last month appeared close…

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Analysis: The end of Bibi? Israel’s deadlocked election

Posted 18 September, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Image: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons For once, the polls were right. They had suggested for months that Israel’s general election yesterday would end in stalemate. While counting is not yet complete, exit polls and the current official tallies point to the same deadlock which followed April’s inconclusive general election. The results represent a massive…

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Analysis: Desperate Bibi’s “election-stealing” bill blocked

Posted 11 September, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Image: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons A desperate Benjamin Netanyahu was this week thwarted in an attempt to push through the Knesset a controversial bill allowing party workers to bring cameras into polling stations. With polls showing the opposition Blue and White party narrowly edging ahead of the prime minister’s Likud party ahead of next…

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Analysis: Will Likud ditch Bibi if election ends in new stalemate?

Posted 5 September, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: Matankic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons With less than two weeks to go until polling day, Israel appears to be heading towards another general election stalemate – the second in less than six months. Polls this week show neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor his principal rival, Benny Gantz, have succeeded in opening a decisive lead. Instead, they…

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LFI Delegation to Israel and the Palestinian Territories – July 2019

Posted 14 August, 2019 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel took a group of centre-left parliamentarians on delegation to Israel and the Palestinian Territories at the end of July. The group was led by LFI chair Dame Louise Ellman MP, and included LFI honorary president Joan Ryan MP, Rosie Cooper MP, Steve McCabe MP, and Phil Wilson MP. The group began their…

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Analysis: Israeli left unites for elections – but Labor stands apart

Posted 1 August, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons With only days remaining until Israel’s political parties must present their finalised slates for September’s general election, there has been further maneuvering on the left and right, and between Arab parties. Two weeks ago, the Labor party announced that it had agreed a merger with Orly Levy-Abekasis’s Gesher party.…

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Analysis: Labor’s Amir Peretz makes surprise election move to broaden party’s base

Posted 25 July, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: עט הזמיר, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons With less than two months to go until polling day, the contours of the battlefield for Israel’s general election on 17 September have begun to look a little clearer. Over the past week, Labor leader Amir Peretz announced a deal between his party and centrist Gesher party. Its leader, Orly…

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