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Analysis: Why we all need to reflect when we talk about Gaza

Posted 16 May, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This post, by LFI Director Jennifer Gerber, first appeared on Progress Simple narratives that seek to cast all the blame of the Gaza conflict on one side are as naive as they are unhelpful to the cause of peace, writes Labour Friends of Israel’s Jennifer Gerber On Tuesday Labour Friends of Israel issued a tweet about the…

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Analysis: Trump should mend, not end, the Iran nuclear deal

Posted 10 May, 2018 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
  President Trump’s decision yesterday to pull the US out of the Iran nuclear agreement deals a severe, possibly fatal, blow to the 2015 agreement which aims to prevent the Islamic republic from resuming its nuclear programme. Trump says he will reimpose sanctions on Iran, which were lifted in return for Tehran’s compliance with the accord, and…

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Analysis: Trump’s peace plan: the ultimate deal?

Posted 16 March, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  President Trump’s long-awaited Middle East plan is close to completion, according to reports in the US media last weekend. The timing of its release is not yet confirmed and details of its contents are highly guarded. However, the president’s enthusiasm for negotiating the "ultimate deal" – a peace agreement which brings an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – seemingly…

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Analysis: Secret pact between Israel and Egypt against Islamic State

Posted 8 February, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
  Israel has been covertly launching strikes against Islamic State in Sinai as part of a two-year  campaign secretly approved by Egypt, US media revealed last weekend. The airstrikes – carried out by unmarked Israeli warplanes, drones and helicopters – are estimated to be taking place at the rate of at least once a week. The targeted jihadis…

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Analysis: Iranians protest the cost of regime’s foreign wars

Posted 12 January, 2018 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
  The new year political unrest in Iran is not unprecedented. Three times in the last two decades, the Islamic regime has faced mass protests. In July 1999, students took to the streets to demand freedom of speech, while, 10 years later, the Green Movement saw demonstrations against the vote-rigging which accompanied the re-election of the…

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LFI secures parliamentary debate on Hezbollah proscription

Posted 11 January, 2018 in Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East, News
LFI chair Joan Ryan has secured a cross-party parliamentary debate on the proscription of Hezbollah on Thursday 25 January. LFI has long called for the complete proscription of the terrorist group Hezbollah. Currently, the UK only proscribes Hezbollah’s ‘military wing’, but not its ‘political wing’. The UK’s distinction is not one that Hezbollah itself recognises. Its…

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Analysis: Jerusalem recognition makes peace harder to achieve

Posted 8 December, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Donald Trump announced this week that the United States would be formally recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, upending decades of US policy. In a brief White House address, the American president declared that formal recognition was “a recognition of reality” and the “right thing to do”. He was immediately praised by Israeli prime minister…

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