King Abdullah II of Jordan. European Parliament, CC BY-4.0.
Israel’s border with Jordan has witnessed a flurry of official crossings in recent days, as several senior Israeli politicians have visited the Hashemite kingdom ahead of Ramadan.
Labor's public security minister Omer Barlev reportedly met with Jordanian foreign minister Ayman Safadi last week to discuss security arrangements ahead of the…
Negev summit > AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool
Israel has been rocked by three terrorist attacks in the past week, killing at least eleven people, while it welcomed the foreign ministers of a number of Arab nations for an unprecedented summit over the weekend.
What happened
The foreign ministers of four Arab countries – the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco…
LFI has today hosted a briefing for Labour parliamentarians from Joseph Gitler, founder and chairman of Leket - Israel's National Food Bank.
The briefing, hosted by LFI chair Steve McCabe MP, was an opportunity to hear about Leket's work to tackle food insecurity in Israel, the changing nature of food provision in the wake of the…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace
Step Fifteen: Support construction of a Gaza seaport
In the wake of the 2014 Gaza war, Labor MK and security minister in the Bennett-Lapid government Omer Barlev presented a comprehensive strategy to effectively end Gaza’s international isolation without compromising Israel’s security. One of its key…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace
Step Fourteen: Ensure Palestinians can travel abroad more freely by new infrastructure at Allenby Bridge and direct, secure shuttles from the West Bank to Ben Gurion Airport
The freedom and ability of the Palestinian people to travel abroad for commercial reasons, to visit…
Bambos Charalambous and Steve McCabe participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem
The shadow minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Bambos Charalambous, is with Labour Friends of Israel on a delegation this week – his first visit to the region since his appointment last November.
He is being accompanied by LFI chair Steve McCabe.…
LFI has today hosted a briefing for parliamentarians on 'Settlements and Solutions', as part of our Steps to a Two State Solution campaign.
The session, hosted by LFI chair Steve McCabe looked at the building of Israeli settlements as an obstacle to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Parliamentarians were joined by the Washington Institute's David Makovsky…
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, and Russian president Vladimir Putin > Composite/AP, via Times of Israel
Naftali Bennett made a dramatic trip to Moscow last weekend to meet with Vladimir Putin as Israel found itself attempting to help mediate an international crisis for the first time. The prime minister’s trip on the…
At FCDO Questions today, LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford asked why the UK had played no role in agreeing the Abraham Accords in summer 2020, and called for the UK to be "central to encouraging more of our partners across the Arab world" to normalise ties with Israel, given its historic ties in the region.
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Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace
Step Thirteen: Support the development of Rawabi
The first pre-planned Palestinian city, Rawabi is a $1.4bn development in the West Bank and the brainchild of Palestinian entrepreneur and businessman Bashar Masri. Close to Ramallah, the project has faced opposition from both Israeli settlers and right-wingers…
