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Analysis: Weekend of violence and rockets amid election uncertainty

Posted 29 April, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Iron Dome intercepts rockets from Gaza. Credit: Nehemia Gershuni, www.NGPhoto.biz, CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Following several nights of rocket fire from Gaza, Israel has warned Hamas that it will face major retaliation should the attacks continue. Gaza-based armed factions launched more than 40 rockets into Israel over the weekend, against a background of continued unrest in Jerusalem…

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In Brief: Sudan ends 63-year Israeli boycott law

Posted 20 April, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Sudanese flag, public domain. The Sudanese government voted to annul its so-called Israel boycott law on Monday, in the latest development in the two countries’ diplomatic normalisation process. The decision to scrap the law, dating from 1958, was confirmed earlier this month by the Sudanese prime minister’s office, which also affirmed Sudan’s support for a two-state solution…

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In Brief: Iran nuclear talks continue as enrichment increases

Posted 20 April, 2021 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Negotiations about Iranian Nuclear Program, US State Department, Public domain. Discussions to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal continued this weekend, as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that Iran was enriching uranium to 60 percent fissile purity. The IAEA announced it had “verified that Iran has begun the production of UF6, enriched up to 60%…

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Rosie Cooper pushes FCDO on International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Posted 20 April, 2021 in Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Rosie Cooper LFI vice-chair Rosie Cooper today pushed Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly on potential UK membership of the international board of the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. "It is now five months since the US Congress passed a $250 million Act to create the international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace,…

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In Brief: Biden to reverse Trump’s Palestinian aid cut

Posted 15 April, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
President Joe Biden. White House, Public domain. The Biden administration has announced plans to restore $235m (£171m) of aid to Palestinians, in a reversal of a cut made by Donald Trump. UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, will receive two-thirds of the aid. UNRWA experienced a sharp financial crisis when the Trump administration slashed $360m in US…

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Analysis: Iran nuclear site attack as Vienna talks commence

Posted 15 April, 2021 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Negotiations about Iranian Nuclear Program. US State Department, Public domain. Iran last weekend began speeding up its nuclear enrichment programme – just days after talks aimed at reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action began in Vienna. But Tehran’s launch of banned advanced centrifuges at the secret Natanz plant appears to have been disrupted by a…

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In Brief: Hope for Iran nuclear deal in Vienna

Posted 7 April, 2021 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Negotiations about Iranian Nuclear Program, US State Department, Public domain. The Biden administration has agreed to join talks in Vienna aimed at resurrecting the Iran nuclear deal, which the Trump administration left in 2018. The remaining signatories – China, France, Germany, Russia and the UK – now need to find routes both for the US to lift…

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Analysis: Jordan rocked by royal family feuding

Posted 7 April, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
King Abdullah II of Jordan. European Parliament, CC BY-4.0. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan experienced an uncharacteristic episode of instability over the weekend, as a public rift between King Abdullah II and his younger half-brother, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, became public. What happened In videos passed to the BBC on Saturday, Prince Hamzah claimed to have been placed “under…

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In Brief: Internationally led vaccine progress in the Palestinian Territories

Posted 30 March, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The rollout of covid-19 vaccinations in the West Bank and Gaza received a boost on Monday as the Palestinian Authority received 100,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from the Chinese government. The elderly, frontline medical staff and at-risk groups will be proritised, the PA…

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In Brief: Labour and Conservative Friends chairs call for international peace fund

Posted 30 March, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe and Conservative Friends of Israel chair Stephen Crabb have written a joint op-ed in today’s Times Red Box, calling on the government to “seize the moment” at the G7 summit in Cornwall later this year by committing…

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