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In Brief: Hamas court convicts peace activists over Zoom call with Israelis

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
 Photo: Orthuberra, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A military court in Gaza this week convicted three Palestinian peace activists for holding a video call with Israelis in April. Rami Aman, the head of the Gaza Youth Committee, was sentenced to a year in prison after being found guilty of “weakening revolutionary spirit”. However, the court…

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In Brief: Israel hands PA control of three West Bank power stations

Posted 20 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Photo: OneArmedMan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Israel has given the Palestinian Authority control over three power stations in a bid to help stabilise and boost the supply of electricity to the West Bank. The three power stations – in Tarqumiyah, near Hebron, Qalandiyah, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, and Nablus – were handed over by the Israel…

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In Brief: EU tells PA to accept tax revenues from Israel and resume security ties

Posted 14 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The European Union has said it won’t bail out the Palestinian Authority with additional aid for so long as it refuses to accept tax revenues collected by Israel, it has been reported. President Mahmoud Abbas announced in May that the PA would stop accepting $150m a month in tax…

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In Brief: MEPs urge EU to get tough with PA on controversial curriculum

Posted 14 October, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Photo courtesy IMPACT-se More than 20 members of the European parliament from 15 nations have urged the European Union to partially withhold funding from the PA until Ramallah makes sweeping changes to its controversial school curriculum. The new curriculum, introduced in 2017, incites violence, glorifies terrorism and contains antisemitic content. The UK government has admitted its aid…

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Analysis: What would Joe Biden mean for Israel?

Posted 7 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Both Donald Trump and his supporters have repeatedly attempted to paint the Democratic party as anti-Israel and suggested that the election of Joe Biden would be detrimental to the Jewish state. This weekend, David Friedman, the US ambassador to Israel, went further and suggested that a victory for the…

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In Brief: Israeli foreign minister urges PA to return to negotiating table

Posted 7 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israel’s foreign minister urged the Palestinians to “return to the negotiating table” this week. Gabi Ashkenazi was speaking after his historic first meeting with the United Arab Emirates foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, in Berlin on Tuesday. “Only through direct negotiations can we advance a solution for the conflict,” Ashkenazi, a member of…

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In Brief: Peacebuilding work necessary, not just nice, says ALLMEP report

Posted 7 October, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The services that peacebuilding organisations provide for their communities are not just nice – they are necessary, a new report from the Alliance for Middle East Peace says this week. The study, A Resilient Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding Sector in the Face of the Coronavirus Pandemic, looks at the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on civic society…

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Analysis: Who might succeed Mahmoud Abbas?

Posted 29 September, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Montaser.pal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In his virtual address to the UN General Assembly last week, Mahmoud Abbas predictably denounced the historic normalisation agreements signed earlier this month by Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. But the president also announced new elections – the first for over 14 years – will take place…

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In Brief: LFI chair welcomes normalisation agreement in parliamentary debate

Posted 29 September, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Steve McCabe has welcomed the normalisation agreements signed by Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain earlier this month. In a parliamentary debate last week, LFI’s chair also urged the government to restore funding to peace-building coexistence projects. “I hope other countries in the region will follow [the UAE…

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Analysis: After the Abraham Accords – what next for the Palestinians?

Posted 22 September, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Mahmoud Abbas. Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In their steadfast opposition to the historic agreement signed last week between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have found a rare common cause. Earlier this month, President Mahmoud Abbas hosted a meeting in Ramallah which brought together all 14 major…

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