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In Brief: Gantz meets with Abbas to discuss security cooperation

Posted 12 July, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Israel's defence minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Thursday to discuss security coordination ahead of US president Joe Biden's visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories this week. Israel's security establishment has expressed concerns about the possibility…

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In Brief: Israel approves Palestinian housing and 4G coverage plans

Posted 12 July, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
Construction in Jenin > Guillaume Paumier, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel will advance a long-delayed plan to approve the construction of some 1,000 new Palestinian homes and make a number of other confidence-building measures towards the Palestinian Authority. The moves come ahead of President Biden's visit to the region this week, according to reports. The move to…

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Steps to a two state solution: End incitement in the Palestinian school curriculum

Posted 11 July, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty Six: End incitement in the Palestinian school curriculum In 2017, the Palestinian Authority introduced a new school curriculum which teaches the virtues of martyrdom, describes terrorists as “heroes” and repeats antisemitic tropes. The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se)…

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In Brief: Israeli man seriously hurt in suspected terror stabbing

Posted 5 July, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics
MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons A man was seriously hurt in a suspected stabbing attack near the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak on Tuesday morning. The incident is thought to be a terror attack, as police said officers launched a manhunt for the stabber, who fled after attacking the man on a…

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In Brief: Israeli Labor leader Merav Michaeli outlines outlook for election

Posted 5 July, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party
Merav Michaeli > Ron Kedmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Israel's transport minister and leader of the Israeli Labor party, Merav Michaeli, said on Monday that she would not rule out sitting in a government with the ultra-Orthodox parties following elections later this year. She also ruled out running with Meretz, Israel's other left-wing party. Michaeli, a…

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Analysis: Yair Lapid becomes Israel’s fourteenth prime minister

Posted 5 July, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
Yair Lapid > Sapir Academic College, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist liberal Yesh Atid party, became Israel's fourteenth prime minister last week, following the dissolution of the Knesset. What happened Lapid became prime minister following the collapse of the coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett, in which Lapid served as foreign…

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Shadow Minister: Labour “seriously concerned” by Iranian threat to Israel

Posted 1 July, 2022 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
At a Backbench Business Debate co-sponsored by LFI chair Steve McCabe MP yesterday, shadow Middle East Minister Bambos Charalambous MP laid out Labour's "serious concern" about "the threats that Iran has made against Israel". He also made clear Labour's view that "there is an imperative" to move the issues of Tehran's ballistic missile programme, its support…

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LFI chair speaks in backbench business debate on Iran and the JCPOA

Posted 1 July, 2022 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP spoke in today's Backbench Business Debate on Iran and the JCPOA, which he co-sponsored alongside Robert Jenrick MP. He called for a "clear-sighted and comprehensive strategy" to tackle the Iranian regime's many malign activities. Discussing Tehran's ballistic missile programme, he  also reminded colleagues that "the destruction of the State of Israel is…

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In Brief: Israel and Arab allies agree to tighten cooperation

Posted 30 June, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process
Negev summit > AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool Senior diplomats from Israel, the US and regional Arab allies agreed to increase efforts to improve security, stability and prosperity in the Middle East during a follow up meeting to the Negev Summit in Bahrain on Monday. The first meeting of the Negev Summit Steering Committee – consisting of Israel,…

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