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LFI director: Could the Good Friday agreement be a model for Israeli-Palestinian peace?

Posted 20 November, 2023 in Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jewish News. Click here to read the original. LFI logo The catastrophic Israel-Hamas war is an irreversible turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The diplomatic priority for the international community in the short term is the massive humanitarian needs of Gazans and the effort to return hostages…

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Analysis: Israel advances on Hamas headquarters around Shifa hospital

Posted 16 November, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Credit: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages > CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons. On the ground The IDF is gaining control over the northern Gaza Strip, and early on the morning of 15…

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LFI PUBLISHES A POST-WAR DIPLOMATIC AGENDA FOR ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE 

Posted 16 November, 2023 in Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict
LFI PUBLISHES A POST-WAR DIPLOMATIC AGENDA FOR ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE  Labour Friends of Israel is today publishing its latest policy paper: A Post-war Diplomatic Agenda for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, by LFI director Michael Rubin. In these darkest of days, it is hard to imagine that any good can come from the death, misery and destruction. Yet…

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Labour King’s Speech amendment condemns Hamas and confirms Israel’s right to defend itself

Posted 15 November, 2023 in Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour leader Keir Starmer Today, the Labour party has tabled an amendment to the King's speech setting out its position on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The Labour amendment: "Unequivocally" condemns the "horrific terror attack and murder of civilians by Hamas" Calls for the "immediate release of all hostages" Reaffirms Labour's…

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Margaret Hodge pushes for hostage release at Commons statement

Posted 14 November, 2023 in Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, News
LFI parliamentary supporter Margaret Hodge MP At today's statement in the House of Commons, LFI parliamentary supporter Margaret Hodge MP again raised the need for the 239 Israeli hostages currently being held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza. She asked: "I share what the Minister has said about the humanitarian tragedy that we are witnessing…

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LFI director: Even at this dark time, we must look to the future

Posted 10 November, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Gaza port > Ramez Habboub, CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons The fury and rage of the anti-Israel protesters who took to the streets of London again this weekend should not be confused with a mass movement with…

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Analysis: Israel strikes Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza city

Posted 9 November, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
Soldiers guard the entrance to a Hamas tunnel in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published November 9, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces), via Times of Israel. Latest developments A month on from Hamas’s October 7 mass terror attack, Israeli ground forces are advancing deeper into Gaza city, and closing in on Hamas’s main command centre,…

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LFI parliamentarians push government on hostages and humanitarian pauses

Posted 8 November, 2023 in Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI parliamentary supporter Mike Amesbury MP At today's Commons statement on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, a number of LFI parliamentarians pushed the government on issues relating to the release of the 245 Israeli hostages, as well as for greater details on what work the UK is doing to coordinate humanitarian pauses in the fighting to…

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Starmer marks month since Hamas attacks at King’s speech debate

Posted 7 November, 2023 in Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
Labour leader Keir Starmer As he responded to yesterday's King's Speech, Labour leader Keir Starmer marked the one month anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attacks against Israel, which killed 1,400 people. Starmer said: "It is now one month exactly since the senseless murder of Jews by the terrorists of Hamas and the taking of hostages on…

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