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Analysis: Hamas’ bloody massacre sparks war with Israel

Posted 11 October, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
IDF Armored forces at a staging area in Upper Galilee, near the northern Israeli border with Lebanon, October 11, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90) Hamas launched a massive assault on southern Israel on Saturday morning, murdering over 1,000 men, women and children and kidnapping an estimated 130 hostages. Thousands of people were injured in the well-planned and highly…

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Starmer to LFI: “Labour stands with Israel”

Posted 10 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Keir Starmer addressing LFI's vigil at Labour conference Keir Starmer strongly backed Israel and condemned Hamas at LFI’s reception on Tuesday evening, at which some 1,000 people turned out to show support for the Jewish state. The Labour leader addressed LFI supporters during a vigil for the victims of the terrorist attacks, during which there was a…

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LFI chair: Labour can be ambitious in its Middle East policy

Posted 6 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons If Labour wins the next general election, the political and economic landscape of the Middle East will look rather different than when Tony Blair arrived in Downing Street in 1997. Although…

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In Brief: Gaza terrorists fire rockets into the sea as alert blares in Israel

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian militant with rifle, atphalix, CC BY SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons A terrorist group based in the Gaza strip test-fired a number of rockets into the Mediterranean sea on Tuesday morning, in a move that triggered an alert in southern Israel. The launches, claimed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, came days after nearly two…

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Analysis: LFI lays out Middle East policy agenda for next Labour government

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Ahead of Labour’s annual conference next week, LFI has released its latest policy pamphlet: Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government exclusively in the Guardian today. Priorities for the next Labour government Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government offers 26 policy recommendations to a wide range of issues relevant to the…

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In Brief: Eight Palestinian students arrested on terror charges

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian militant with rifle > atphalix, CC BY SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli security forces on Sunday arrested eight Palestinian students suspected of planning an imminent terror attack. The students, from Birzeit University near Ramallah, were arrested following an investigation into Hamas cells in Palestinian education institutions, the IDF said. The students were allegedly recruited by Hamas…

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Analysis: Israel-Saudi speculation bubbles as UN convenes

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As the UN General Assembly convened last week, longstanding speculation around the potential for a normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia has reached a fever pitch. What happened On Wednesday, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman claimed in an interview with Fox News that…

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In Brief: Saudis push for two states as part of normalisation deal

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons US secretary of state Antony Blinken claimed last week that any potential normalisation agreement between the Saudis and Israel would have to include steps towards a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Blinken stressed his view that if the Israel-Saudi normalisation process is “to…

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In Brief: Palestinian terrorists better armed than PA security forces

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Children at PIJ summer camp in Khan Younis > SAID KHATIB / AFP, via Times of Israel The UN's special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, reported that terror groups in the West Bank are currently better armed than the Palestinian Authority security forces. He told the World Summit of Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya that…

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Labour Lords champion UK support for Abraham Accords

Posted 14 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour's shadow Lords FCDO spokesperson, Lord Collins of Highbury In today's House of Lords debate on UK support for the Abraham Accords, two Labour peers urged the UK government to more proactively support the Accords on the global stage. Lord Mendelsohn declared the Accords "one of the single most transformational moments in the Middle East", and urged…

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