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In Brief: Israel welcomes Germany’s new government

Posted 15 December, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
German chancellor Olaf Scholz > Olaf Kosinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0-de, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli prime minister this week Naftali Bennett congratulated Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in a phone call on Tuesday. Bennett also extended an invitation to Scholz to visit Israel. The two leaders discussed the important bilateral relationship between their countries, according to the Israeli prime…

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Steps to a Two State Solution: Support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and re-establish UK support for peace-building work 

Posted 14 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Four: Support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and re-establish UK support for peace-building work Modelled on the highly successful International Fund for Ireland, an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace would allow the international community to lay the civic society foundations for…

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In Brief: Palestinian trade boost as factories receive approval

Posted 30 November, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Palestine Trade Tower > omarremawi11, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons A number of Palestinian factories in the West Bank will be able to sell their products to European markets for the first time as part of a plan approved by Israel’s defence minister, Benny Gantz, to strengthen and improve the economic standing of the Palestinian…

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Steps to a Two State Solution: Freeze Settlement Building

Posted 30 November, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Two: Freeze settlement building Continued Israeli settlement-building – especially that which occurs beyond the security barrier – represents an obstacle to a two-seat solution. Both in public and in private meetings with senior Israeli government representatives, LFI has consistently called both for an end…

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In Brief: Knesset introduces bill to limit prime ministerial term limits

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Knesset in session > Itzik Edri, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. The Knesset gave initial approval to a bill limiting prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office on Monday night. The coalition government passed the legislation’s first reading by 66 votes to 40 votes, with the Israeli-Arab majority Joint List party joining the…

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In Brief: Hezbollah smuggling weapons to Israel to ferment civil unrest

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
Hezbollah fighters at a ceremony > Ali Khamenei, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah is reportedly trying to smuggle weapons into Israel to ferment unrest within the Israeli-Arab community, a police official has said. Israeli police have seen a significant increase in efforts to smuggle weapons into the country via the Lebanese…

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LFI chair: For Israel, Palestine and peace, we must work towards a two-state solution

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Earlier this month, we marked the tragic assassination in 1995 of Yitzhak Rabin – an event that robbed Israel of a great soldier and statesman. Rabin’s signing of the Oslo Accords appeared to usher in…

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Steps to a two state solution: Tackle the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step One: Tackle the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with emergency infrastructure plan for improving energy supplies, sanitation and clean water After more than a decade of war, Israeli and Egyptian restrictions, and Hamas misrule, the humanitarian situation in the coastal enclave is dire: the electricity…

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In Brief: Treat climate change as security issue, Knesset committee says

Posted 18 November, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Knesset in session > Itzik Edri, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. The Knesset’s powerful Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee have called for the Israeli government and security services to take the issue of climate change more seriously and to consider it a national security issue, given the threat of posed by global warming. “There is no…

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In Brief: Israeli Labor takes a stand against settlement growth

Posted 10 November, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Merav Michaeli. Photo: Ron Kedmi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Merav Michaeli, Israel’s transport minister and leader of the Israeli Labor party, has joined other left-wing MKs in announcing that her party will oppose plans to build new settlements in the West Bank. During the weekly Labor caucus meeting, Michaeli said: “We will oppose any initiative…

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