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Israeli Labor leader Merav Michaeli’s speech to LFI’s 2022 Annual Lunch

Posted 23 November, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israeli Labor leader Merav Michaeli addressing LFI's 2022 Annual Lunch   ** Check against delivery ** נאום לידידי.ות ישראל בלייבור הבריטי Labour Friends of Israel  22 נובמבר 2022 Thank you, Steve, for that kind introduction. I am delighted to be with you this afternoon at LFI’s annual lunch. Can I begin by thanking LFI for your valued work: making the case for…

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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ speech to LFI’s 2022 Annual Lunch

Posted 23 November, 2022 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Shadow Chancellor and LFI vice-chair Rachel Reeves addresses LFI's 2022 Annual Lunch Rachel Reeves MP Speech to LFI Annual Lunch 18/11/2022   ** Check against delivery **   Thank you, Steve. Chief Rabbi, Ambassador, friends. It’s such a pleasure to be here with you at LFI’s annual lunch. And I’m especially grateful to Merav for making the journey from Israel to be with us today. As…

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In Brief: Iran issues first death sentence following anti-government protests

Posted 16 November, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iran on Sunday issued its first deaths sentence linked to the anti-regime protests that have followed the death of Mahsa Amini in September. The accused was sentenced in a Tehran court to death for the crime of “setting fire to a government building, disturbing public order, assembly and conspiracy…

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Analysis: Netanyahu warned at home and abroad as he builds coalition

Posted 16 November, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process
Ballots papers of Israeli legislative election, 2019 > Laliv g, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Talks between former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and smaller right-wing and far-right parties have begun following this month’s Israeli election, which saw Netanyahu emerge as the likeliest next premier. However, growing warnings about the inclusion of the far-right have emerged…

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In Brief: Iran hopes railway will distract from massacred protestors

Posted 9 November, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iran has this week announced the completion of another section of the Chahbahar-Zahedan railway, as anti-regime protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in September have shown no sign of ending. The railway, part of a larger network that form new strategic corridors in Iran, runs through…

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In Brief: Israel and Jordan agree clean energy-for-water deal at COP27

Posted 9 November, 2022 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
President Isaac Herzog and King Abdullah > Haim Zach / Government Press Office, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel and its eastern neighbour Jordan have agreed to advance a joint green energy and water deal at the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt this week. The agreement, brokered by the United States and UAE, involves…

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In Brief: UK-Israel trade grows by a third, with major pharma growth

Posted 9 November, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East
UK and Israel flags > UK in Israel, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The UK’s latest figures on bilateral trade between the UK and Israel have shown a major increase in business between the two countries in recent months, growing by 33 percent. A Department for International Trade and Investment report, released last week, reveals how British…

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Analysis: Israel’s 2022 election: a review

Posted 9 November, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East
Ballots papers of Israeli legislative election, 2019 > Laliv g, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Talks between former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and smaller right-wing and far-right parties have begun following last week’s Israeli election, which saw Netanyahu emerge as the likeliest next premier. What happened With all the votes counted and Knesset seats apportioned by…

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In Brief: Protests continue in Iran despite violent regime response

Posted 2 November, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Iranians have continued staging new protests denouncing their country’s theocratic regime in defiance of a brutal crackdown that has seen those arrested put on trial and facing the death penalty. For the past six weeks, the regime has been rocked by protests on a scale unseen since the 1979…

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