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Analysis: Can Ehud Barak unite Israel’s left?

Posted 10 July, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: Adi Cohen Zedek, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Six weeks after the Knesset voted for new elections in September, the Israeli political landscape looks no more certain than it day after Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprising failure to form a government. The Israeli prime minister had appeared to emerge victorious from April’s general election, but weeks of…

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Analysis: Trump’s economic plan for Palestine falls flat

Posted 25 June, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Image: The White House, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons The first part of Donald Trump’s much-delayed plan to secure “the ultimate deal” – peace between Israel and the Palestinians – was published on Saturday. The document, entitled Peace To Prosperity, outlines a $50bn investment plan ahead of an “economic workshop” in Bahrain this week. The Palestinian Authority, which…

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Analysis: Unprecedented stalemate leads to new Israeli poll

Posted 5 June, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Image: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Israel will go to the polls on 17 September – less than six months after Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to win April’s general election – following an unprecedented political stalemate. As the midnight deadline to negotiate a new coalition approached last Wednesday, the Knesset voted by 74 to 45 to…

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LFI Focus: Israel heads to the polls (again)

Posted 1 June, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, LFI Focus
LFI Focus provides a periodic analysis on Israel-Palestine, providing an in-depth view of the issues that affect the region. Image: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This edition focuses on the fall-out from Israel's election in September 2019. You can read it here. There is also an accompanying analysis of the competing parties. Click here to…

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Analysis: Is Israel heading for new elections?

Posted 28 May, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Image: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Israel appears to be edging towards a general election – less than two months after Benjamin Netanyahu was re-elected on 9 April. With the deadline to form a new coalition government fast approaching on Wednesday night, the prime minister’s effort to secure a Knesset majority appears to have stalled.…

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Analysis: Germany condemns “antisemitic” BDS movement

Posted 23 May, 2019 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel
Photo: Martin Rulsch, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The German parliament last week passed a motion condemning as antisemitic the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The motion was the joint initiative of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and centre-left Social Democrat party, and was backed by the Greens and the centrist Free Democrats. Entitled “Resist…

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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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