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In Brief: Coalition tensions as hard right minister excluded from meetings

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benjamin Netanyahu > World Economic Forum / Manuel Lopez, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted some of Israel's most senior security officials for a meeting at his office on Sunday which excluded national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir. This was not the first time that the hard right nationalist Ben Gvir, whose brief includes authority over…

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Analysis: LFI lays out Middle East policy agenda for next Labour government

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Ahead of Labour’s annual conference next week, LFI has released its latest policy pamphlet: Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government exclusively in the Guardian today. Priorities for the next Labour government Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government offers 26 policy recommendations to a wide range of issues relevant to the…

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In Brief: Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander visits Syria

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
IRGC Parade in Tehran. Image Credit: YPA, CC-BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ elite Quds Force, Esmail Ghaani, visited Syria last week to oversee a joint military drill, according to Iranian media reports. Ghaani, who was appointed following a US drone strike against his predecessor, Qassem Soleimani, in 2020, reportedly…

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In Brief: Eight Palestinian students arrested on terror charges

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian militant with rifle > atphalix, CC BY SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli security forces on Sunday arrested eight Palestinian students suspected of planning an imminent terror attack. The students, from Birzeit University near Ramallah, were arrested following an investigation into Hamas cells in Palestinian education institutions, the IDF said. The students were allegedly recruited by Hamas…

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In Brief: Iran unveils ‘longest-range drone in the world’ at parade

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Analysis, Iran
Ayatollah Khamenei > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0; via Wikimedia Commons Last Friday saw Iran display what it claimed was the “longest-range drone in the world” during a military parade that also featured a number of banners threatening Israel. The drone, one of several unnamed aerial vehicles and missiles presented at an event marking the start of…

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Analysis: Israel-Saudi speculation bubbles as UN convenes

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As the UN General Assembly convened last week, longstanding speculation around the potential for a normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia has reached a fever pitch. What happened On Wednesday, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman claimed in an interview with Fox News that…

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In Brief: Saudis push for two states as part of normalisation deal

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons US secretary of state Antony Blinken claimed last week that any potential normalisation agreement between the Saudis and Israel would have to include steps towards a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Blinken stressed his view that if the Israel-Saudi normalisation process is “to…

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In Brief: Palestinian terrorists better armed than PA security forces

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Children at PIJ summer camp in Khan Younis > SAID KHATIB / AFP, via Times of Israel The UN's special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, reported that terror groups in the West Bank are currently better armed than the Palestinian Authority security forces. He told the World Summit of Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya that…

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In Brief: Netanyahu to meet Erdogan at UN General Assembly sidelines

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
Recep Tayyip Erdogan > Government of Chile, CC BY 3.0 CL, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly meet Turkey’s recently re-elected president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the UN General Assembly. The two leaders were due to meet in July, but Netanyahu postponed his visit after undergoing surgery to have a pacemaker implanted. The visit…

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