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Analysis: Can Joe Biden save the Iran deal?

Posted 25 November, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Middle East
July 2015 Iran nuclear deal: agreement in Vienna. From left to right: Foreign ministers/secretaries of state Wang Yi (China), Laurent Fabius (France), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Federica Mogherini (EU), Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran), Philip Hammond (UK), John Kerry (USA). (Photo: Dragan Tatic, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) Joe Biden’s desire for the US to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan…

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In Brief: Secrecy surrounds Bibi’s historic meeting with Saudi crown prince

Posted 25 November, 2020 in Analysis, Middle East, Peace process
Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Benjamin Netanyahu held an historic meeting with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, on Sunday evening. The meeting – held in the Saudi city of Neom, some 44 miles from the southern tip of Israel – is shrouded in secrecy. The Saudi foreign minister, Prince…

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LFI vice-chair writes to Middle East minister on peace-building funding following parliamentary debate

Posted 25 November, 2020 in Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Catherine McKinnell. Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell has written to Middle East minister James Cleverely following last week's parliamentary debate calling for the UK to back an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Ms McKinnell's debate is part of a long-running LFI campaign to secure greater support from the…

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Analysis: LFI MPs push for International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell led a debate in parliament today calling for the British government to support the establishment of an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The debate is part of a long-running campaign by LFI – ‘For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace’ – to back the fund, which would invest in peacebuilding projects that bring…

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In Brief: Iran has 12 times permitted amount of uranium, IAEA finds

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
July 2015 Iran nuclear deal: agreement in Vienna. From left to right: Foreign ministers/secretaries of state Wang Yi (China), Laurent Fabius (France), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Federica Mogherini (EU), Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran), Philip Hammond (UK), John Kerry (USA). (Photo: Dragan Tatic, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) Iran has stockpiled more than 12 times the amount of enriched uranium…

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In Brief: Veteran Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat dies of covid aged 65

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Saeb Erekat and Livni (Minister of Justice, State of Israel). Photo: Marc Muller,  CC BY 3.0 DE , via Wikimedia Commons Saeb Erekat, who helped negotiate the Oslo Accords, died yesterday of covid-19. He passed away at Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Centre, to which he had been transferred last month after testing positive for the illness. Erekat, who was…

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In Brief: Israeli politicians line up to welcome Biden election victory

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East
Reuven Rivlin. Photo: Michał Józefaciuk , CC BY-SA 3.0 PL, via Wikimedia Commons Reuven Rivlin led the congratulations on Joe Biden's victory, and invited the president-elect to visit Jerusalem. In an English-language video, the Israeli president wrote: "Mr President-elect, I was pleased to welcome you to Jerusalem as vice president and I look forward to welcoming…

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Analysis: What to expect from the Biden-Harris administration

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will bring avowed friends and supporters of Israel to the White House in January. Their approach towards the Middle East is likely to be very different in both style and substance to the outgoing administration. Biden’s commitment to Israel is…

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Analysis: From “No, No, No” to “Yes”; Sudan is latest state to normalise relations with Israel

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
  Sudan has become the latest Arab nation to seek to normalise its relationship with Israel. The agreement was announced during a call between Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump and Sudan’s Sovereign Council president, General Abdel Fattah al- Burhan, and prime minister Abdalla Hamdok. The announcement – which follows the signing last month of the Abraham Accords that…

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In Brief: Peers welcome normalisation deal in call with UAE ambassador

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
  Photo: Wikiemirati, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A cross-party group of members of the House of Lords welcomed the UAE’s normalisation agreement during a video call with the country’s ambassador to London last week. “We believe this is an exciting time for the UAE, Israel and the region,” Ambassador Mansoor Abulhoul  told two dozen members…

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