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LFI parliamentarians push the government to keep its Middle East promises

Posted 14 March, 2023 in Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Today's FCDO orals session saw LFI parliamentarians push the government on a number of policy issues. LFI parliamentary supporter and former LFI chair Andrew Gwynne MP asked the foreign secretary about UK support for the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, noting that it is now five years since the UK government expressed its support for the…

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Analysis: Iran-Saudi deal places China’s Middle East role in spotlight

Posted 14 March, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Xi and Khamenei > Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Iran and Saudi Arabia are to re-establish diplomatic relations, following an agreement brokered by China, which has potential implications both for the US’ role in the Middle East and Israel’s hopes of fostering an alliance to challenge Tehran’s bid for regional dominance. What happened The agreement…

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LFI director: We stand with Israel – and the millions of Israelis defending democracy

Posted 8 March, 2023 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, News
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Thousands of Israelis protesting against the goverment's judicial overhaul bills in Tel Aviv on March 04, 2023 (Photo by Gili Yaari /Flash90) For friends of Israel, the last two months have been depressing and disturbing. Benjamin Netanyahu’s self-serving efforts to emasculate…

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Labour reiterates support for coexistence fund in Lords debate

Posted 7 March, 2023 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  LFI parliamentary supporter Lord Collins The Labour frontbench has today reiterated the party's support for UK involvement in the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, a longstanding LFI campaign goal. Responding to a debate in the House of Lords on Israeli-Palestinian peace, Labour's Lords FCDO spokesperson Lord Collins highlighted the importance of "economic development and supporting people-to-people coexistence…

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LFI peers take part in Israeli-Palestinian peace debate

Posted 7 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
A number of LFI peers have this evening taken part in a debate on 'calming the violence and build a lasting peace between the government of Israel and the Palestinian people' in the House of Lords. LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay reminded colleagues of how Iran's support for terrorism in the region…

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In Brief: Israeli president addresses Middle East’s largest investor event

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Israeli president Isaac Herzog > Elad Brami, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli president Isaac Herzog has praised a summit involving the biggest business delegation from the Gulf which “would have been pure fantasy a few years ago”. Herzog formally opened the OurCrowd summit, the biggest investor event in the Middle East for start-up companies, saying…

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In Brief: New Palestinian terror factions emerging in the West Bank

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Palestinian militant > atphalix, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Recent violence in the West Bank between the IDF and Palestinian militant groups has witnessed small numbers of young Palestinian men take up arms against Israel in defiance of the Palestinian political leadership. A number of newly emerging groups, many with fluid and overlapping affiliations, have emerged…

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LFI chair: Offering Iran a voice at UN Human Rights Council is grotesque

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons In the past week, Iran’s foreign minister was invited to address the annual opening session of the UN Human Rights Council. Steve McCabe MP, chair of Labour Friends of Israel, pledges…

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John Cryer pushes government on IRCG proscription

Posted 2 March, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
PLP chair John Cryer MP Parliamentary Labour Party chair John Cryer MP has today used Business Questions to once again urge the government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Tehran’s ideological terror army – a longstanding LFI campaign goal. He asked: The Leader of the House will be aware that there is extensive consensus across all…

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In Brief: Oman opens airspace to Israeli commercial flights for first time

Posted 28 February, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq Al Said > US State Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons An El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Bangkok become the first Israeli airliner to cross over Oman’s airspace on Sunday night, three days after the Gulf state opened its skies to aircraft from all countries, including the Jewish…

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