Israel is working with the United States and Gulf nations like the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in a process to ultimately normalise ties with Saudi Arabia, foreign minister Yair Lapid said on Monday. “We believe that it is possible to have a normalisation process with Saudi Arabia. It’s in our Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty One: Preserve the Temple Mount status quo The Temple Mount is a frequent flashpoint in Jerusalem – a city which is holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians. The site of the former Temple, it is the Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Politics Home. Click here to read the original. Whatever the eventual outcome of the talks surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme, one thing is clear: we must urgently develop a comprehensive approach to tackling the multi-faceted challenges posed by Tehran. As Labour Read more…
View a PDF copy of our new pamphlet: Iran A Darkening Picture at Home and Abroad Britain must urgently develop a comprehensive approach to tackling the multi-faceted threat posed by Iran, argues a new report published by Labour Friends of Israel. Whatever the outcome of the Vienna talks on Tehran’s Read more…
LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay has today met with a delegation of local government politicians from Israel’s mixed cities, including Haifa and Ramla, as part of a trip organised by the Abraham Initiatives. Baroness Ramsay was briefed on the ongoing Shared Cities Initiative and developments since last May’s inter-communal tensions Read more…
Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit Israel this week in the latest sign of improving relations between the Jewish state and Turkey. One of the key issues on the agenda is likely to be energy cooperation, following the discovery of natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean in the last decade. Read more…
The Biden administration is reportedly brokering a deal to transfer two Red Sea islands from Egypt to Saudi Arabia that could include steps to normalise Saudi-Israeli ties. The treaty would return control of Tiran and Sanafir, which have been leased by Egypt since the 1950s, to Saudi Arabia. The demilitarised Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty: Support free elections in the West Bank and Gaza In 2005, Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian National Authority with a four-year term. The election, which Abbas won by a landslide, was observed by Read more…
Elections held in Lebanon last weekend appear to have dealt a blow to the biggest bloc, led by the Iran-backed Shia terrorist group Hezbollah, according to provisional results. Meanwhile, reformists appeared to have been boosted in the provisional results. Turnout was low in the Sunday elections, the first since Lebanon Read more…
Palestinians marked “Nakba Day” on Sunday – an annual commemoration of the “catastrophe” of the establishment of the State of Israel – amid high tensions following weeks of clashes at the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa compound and the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last Wednesday. What happened Thousands Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Nineteen: Pressure Egypt to permanently open the Rafah crossing The Rafah Crossing represents a crucial route to the outside world for the people of Gaza and is the only pedestrian crossing between Gaza and Egypt. (The tightly Read more…
Israeli president Isaac Herzog called the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, UAE and Bahrain at the weekend to wish them a happy Eid al-Fitr, his office said in a statement. He spoke with PA president Mahmoud Abbas, UAE crown prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al Nahyan and Bahraini king Hamad Read more…