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LFI chair: Steps to a Two State Solution: Positive ways to restart the search for peace

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons This year saw the 30th anniversary of the election victory that brought Yitzhak Rabin to power in Israel. Three short years later, after a rare period of hope that the tragic conflict…

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LFI launches Steps to a Two State Solution pamphlet

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel is delighted to publish its latest policy briefing, Steps to a Two State Solution.    The two state solution is the only means by which to guarantee Israel’s security and to preserve its identity as a Jewish and democratic state, as well as to satisfy the legitimate demand of the Palestinian people for self-determination and national sovereignty.  …

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LFI director: UK’s soft approach to Iran human rights violations

Posted 14 October, 2022 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jerusalem Post. Click here to read the original. Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi > Mehr News Agency, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This week, the UK Foreign Office, at last, announced it was imposing a handful of sanctions on Iran as the regime continues to violently crackdown…

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In Brief: Hamas revives ties with Assadist Syria in anti-Israel ‘axis’

Posted 13 October, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Bashar al-Assad > Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Palestinian terror group Hamas has revived relations with the Assad regime in Syria following a decade’s freeze sparked by the Syrian civil war. Hamas, founded in 1987, is committed to Israel’s destruction and its replacement with an Islamic state. The group seized power in the Gaza Strip…

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In Brief: In first, Israel agrees maritime border deal with Lebanon

Posted 13 October, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hezbollah, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
Noa natural gas field > Uri Kfir, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons US president Joe Biden this week congratulated Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid and Lebanese president Michel Aoun on a deal to establish the first mutually agreed boundary between the two countries, ending a decades-long maritime dispute. “You’re making history”, Biden told Lapid, according to…

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In Brief: Lapid reaffirms Israel support for two states in UN speech

Posted 28 September, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Yair Lapid (Sapir Academic College, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). Yair Lapid reaffirmed Israel's support for a two-state solution, arguing “peace is not a compromise” as he addressed the UN General Assembly last week. “An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states for two peoples, is the right thing for Israel’s security, for Israel’s economy and for…

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In Brief: Emirati foreign minister marks Abraham Accords anniversary in Israel

Posted 21 September, 2022 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
President Isaac Herzog meets Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan > WAM handout/AFP   UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan made his first visit to Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem last week. The trip was part of a visit to the Jewish state marking two years since the signing of the…

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Analysis: Israel seeks to head off PIJ terror threat

Posted 10 August, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israel's prime minister, Yair Lapid: "Our fight is not with the people of Gaza. Islamic Jihad is an Iranian proxy that wants to destroy the State of Israel and kill innocent Israelis." Three days of fighting between Israel and an Iranian-backed terror group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ended late on Sunday evening. A ceasefire, negotiated by the…

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Steps to a two state solution: Allocate territory in Area C for Palestinian economic development

Posted 9 August, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Thirty: Allocate territory in Area C for Palestinian economic development In Step 22, we proposed to expand the Palestinian autonomous zones of the West Bank (Areas A and B, in which more than 90 percent of the Palestinian population lives) by the phased transfer of some…

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Steps to a two state solution: Support a Palestinian seaport at Haifa

Posted 2 August, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty Nine: Support a Palestinian seaport at Haifa A crucial component of economic independence (see Step 25) is the ability of Palestinian businesses to trade more freely with the rest of the world. Unlike Gaza, the West Bank is landlocked, adding a further barrier…

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