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In Brief: Fatah and Hamas play down ‘reconciliation’ talks in Algeria

Posted 19 January, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Representatives of six Palestinian factions – including Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority president Abbas, and the Hamas terror group, which governs the Gaza Strip – are expected to hold talks in Algeria this week to discuss how to achieve “national reconciliation”. The factions…

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Steps to a Two State Solution: Increase work permits for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

Posted 18 January, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Six: Increase work permits for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Around 120,000 Palestinians travel to Israel each day to work, with some 87,000 holding work permits and an estimated further 30,000 to 40,000 regularly crossing illegally to seek employment. In August 2021,…

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In Brief: Comoros and Maldives reportedly next to join Abraham Accords

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Peace process
Comoros > Radosław Botev, CC BY 3.0 PL, via Wikimedia Commons The Muslim-majority island nations of the Comoros and Maldives, both in the Indian Ocean, are reportedly the next candidates to normalise diplomatic relations with Israel, according to Israeli diplomatic sources. Negotiations are allegedly ongoing to establish diplomatic ties between the two states and Israel, although no…

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In Brief: Palestinians go to the polls in rare municipal elections

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Palestinian elections > Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Palestinians took part in rare municipal elections across the West Bank in December, following months of growing discontent towards the Palestinian Authority after the cancellation of long-awaited parliamentary and presidential elections in spring 2021. Some 400,000 Palestinians were eligible to vote to elect representatives for 154 village…

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Analysis: Hope for 2022 as Gantz and Abbas meet in Israel

Posted 12 January, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The period between Christmas and New Year witnessed the first talks between a senior Israeli official and the Palestinian president in Israel since 2010. What happened Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz hosted Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha’ayin on…

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Steps to a Two State Solution: Encourage Arab states to normalise relations with Israel and deepen the Abraham Accords

Posted 11 January, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Five: Encourage Arab states to normalise relations with Israel and deepen the Abraham Accords The Abraham Accords – the 2020 agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco to establish diplomatic relations – represent a ground-breaking shift in the relationship between…

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In Brief: Poll finds corruption the biggest challenge for Palestinians

Posted 15 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA security forces. Image credit: Stop the Wall, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A majority of Palestinians believe that corruption in Palestinian Authority institutions has increased in 2021, according to a public opinion poll published this week. The poll, conducted by the Coalition for Integrity and Accountability at the start of October, also found that many…

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Analysis: Israel and the UAE take it to the next level

Posted 15 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Bennett in the UAE > WAM via Reuters, via NBC News. Naftali Bennett this week became the first Israeli prime minister to pay an official visit to the United Arab Emirates. The prime minister’s trip came just over a year after the signing of the historic Abraham Accords and highlights the increasingly close ties between Israel…

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Steps to a Two State Solution: Support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and re-establish UK support for peace-building work 

Posted 14 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Four: Support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and re-establish UK support for peace-building work Modelled on the highly successful International Fund for Ireland, an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace would allow the international community to lay the civic society foundations for…

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In Brief: Hannukah and Emirati national day celebrated jointly for first time

Posted 8 December, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Israeli and Emirati students celebrate Hannukah > Sharaka, via Times of Israel Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have celebrated the Jewish festival of Hannukah and Emirati unification day together for the first time since they normalised relations via the Abraham Accords last summer. “Hannukah in the UAE was eight days of miracles”, Rabbi Elie…

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