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Analysis: What Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds means for Israel

Posted 15 October, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
Photo: Kurdishstruggle, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons President Trump’s decision last week to abandon the Kurds and give the green light to Turkey’s invasion of north-eastern Syria has sent shockwaves through the Middle East, including in Israel. Even as the US now apparently scrambles to rein Turkey in, the impact of the president’s actions may be…

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Analysis: Trump’s economic plan for Palestine falls flat

Posted 25 June, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Image: The White House, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons The first part of Donald Trump’s much-delayed plan to secure “the ultimate deal” – peace between Israel and the Palestinians – was published on Saturday. The document, entitled Peace To Prosperity, outlines a $50bn investment plan ahead of an “economic workshop” in Bahrain this week. The Palestinian Authority, which…

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Analysis: After Israel votes, will Trump finally launch his “peace plan”?

Posted 3 April, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Shortly before he was inaugurated as president in January 2017, Donald Trump said of Jared Kushner: “If you can’t produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can.” Pulling off the “deal of the century” – peace between Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab world – would have been a large task for anybody. But the president’s son-in-law, tasked…

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Analysis: Israeli lifts lid on its effort to counter Iran in Syria

Posted 17 January, 2019 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Photo: Hossein Zohrevand, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel has begun to lift the veil on its eight-year effort to counter Iran’s attempt to further its ambitions in Syria during the country’s bloody civil war. In an interview with the Sunday Times last weekend, Lieutenant-General Gadi Eisenkot, Israel’s top military commander, spoke openly for the first time about its…

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Joint LFI, CFI and Israeli Embassy event on Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran

Posted 3 December, 2018 in Antisemitism, Iran, Middle East, News
This week, LFI, in partnership with CFI and the Israeli Embassy, hosted a special briefing in parliament to commemorate the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran. Ambassador Mark Regev and Board of Deputies vice-president Edwin Shuker spoke about the 850,000 Jewish refugees who were forced to flee Arab and Muslim countries. LFI…

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Ambassador Regev’s Speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2018

Posted 28 November, 2018 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch, 27 November 2018 Remarks by the Ambassador of Israel, HE Mark Regev. Check against delivery. Chief Rabbi, Chair of the Jewish Agency, Isaac Herzog, Deputy Leader, Tom Watson, Chair of LFI, Joan Ryan, Parliamentarians and friends, And a very special thanks to Sir David and Isaac for helping bring us together today. We gather in…

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Joan Ryan speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2018

Posted 27 November, 2018 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch 2018   Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Regev, friends Thank you to all of you for being here today. In particular, I want to thank Sir David Garrard and Isaac Kaye, our long-standing lunch sponsors. I also want to thank all of my parliamentary colleagues who have joined us; Our chair in…

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Analysis: Has the murder of Khashoggi scuppered Trump’s peace plan?

Posted 23 October, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Rarely has an American administration invested such hope in – or kow-towed so nakedly to – a Middle Eastern state in the manner which Donald Trump’s has done since taking office last January. The president’s entire strategy for the region appears to have been shaped by a belief that Saudi Arabia could help him achieve multiple…

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Analysis: Syrian friendly fire incident causes Israel-Russia relationship to sour

Posted 4 October, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The fragile working relationship between Israel and Russia in Syria – which gave Israel freedom of manoeuvre in Syrian skies – has come under severe strain after the downing of a Russian Ilyushin military intelligence plane, killing the 15 servicemen on board. The incident, which occurred in mid-September, saw…

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