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Analysis: Time to end Gaza’s cycle of violence – Joan Ryan MP

Posted 15 May, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This blog by Joan Ryan MP, parliamentary chair of Labour Friends of Israel, was originally posted on Times of Israel The terrible and shocking events in Gaza yesterday require urgent and immediate action to end the cycle of violence and address the plight of its people. Like any other country, Israel has a right to defend its…

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Analysis: Seven Defining Moments: Israel at 70

Posted 26 April, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
On the 14th May, 1948, on the termination of the British Mandate, Israel declared its independence. As the Jewish state celebrates its seventieth anniversary, here are seven defining moments in the history of the reborn Jewish state. 1948 - Israel’s War of Independence The Jewish Agency, pre-state Israel’s government-in-waiting, accepting UN Resolution 181 which called for the…

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Analysis: Iran’s Syria threat to Israel

Posted 18 April, 2018 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel
  An Iranian drone which entered Israeli airspace in February was carrying explosives, it was revealed on Friday. The attempted attack – the explosives were sufficient to cause damage, although the precise target remains unknown – represents the first direct attack by the Islamic republic on Israel. It also indicates that Iranian aggression may be set to cause a confrontation…

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Joan Ryan MP writes to Jeremy Corbyn over Israeli Labour’s decision to suspend relations with him

Posted 10 April, 2018 in Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
LFI chair Joan Ryan MP has written to Jeremy Corbyn, following the decision by the leader of the Israeli Labor party, Avi Gabbay, to suspend relations with the Labour leader. Her letter is below. LFI Director Jennifer Gerber also commented: "We fully understand why the Israeli Labor party has decided to suspend relations with Jeremy Corbyn. He…

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Analysis: Clashes at the Gaza border leave sixteen Palestinians dead

Posted 4 April, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Sixteen Palestinians – eleven of whom were known members of terror organisations – died during clashes on the border between Gaza and Israel on Friday. The clashes took place in the context of a series of protests at the Gaza border, calling for the fulfilment of the Palestinian ‘right of return’. Friday’s events were the beginning…

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Analysis: Israel’s weekend of terror

Posted 23 March, 2018 in Analysis, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Three Israelis were murdered in a weekend of terror attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Adiel Kolman, a 32-year-old father of four, was stabbed to death near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday. Two days earlier, two Israeli soldiers were killed and another two injured following a car ramming attack outside a military…

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Analysis: Trump’s peace plan: the ultimate deal?

Posted 16 March, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  President Trump’s long-awaited Middle East plan is close to completion, according to reports in the US media last weekend. The timing of its release is not yet confirmed and details of its contents are highly guarded. However, the president’s enthusiasm for negotiating the "ultimate deal" – a peace agreement which brings an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – seemingly…

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Pledge to end Gaza crisis offers a solution, not a soundbite

Posted 8 March, 2018 in Hamas, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This op-ed by Joan Ryan first appeared in the JewishNews, click here to read it.  The humanitarian situation in Gaza is desperate and deeply concerning. Electricity supplies are highly restricted; water and sewage facilities are under strain; rising unemployment has hit 40 percent, with an estimated six in 10 young people out of work. For many people…

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