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Steps to a two state solution: Pressure Egypt to permanently open the Rafah crossing

Posted 17 May, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Nineteen: Pressure Egypt to permanently open the Rafah crossing The Rafah Crossing represents a crucial route to the outside world for the people of Gaza and is the only pedestrian crossing between Gaza and Egypt. (The tightly restricted border between Israel and Gaza has…

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Analysis: Wes Streeting visits Israel with LFI

Posted 11 May, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
Wes Streeting and Steve McCabe/ LFI What's happening The shadow health and social care secretary is visiting Israel this week with LFI. Wes Streeting, a rising star in the party who was first elected to parliament in 2015, is being accompanied by LFI chair Steve McCabe on a delegation primarily focused on Israel’s health tech and…

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In Brief: Opposition vows to bring down government as Knesset returns

Posted 10 May, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Naftali Bennett > Avi Ohayon / Government Press Office (Israel), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s opposition, led by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has pledged to bring down the country’s “unity government” as the Knesset returned for its summer session this week. The eight-party governing coalition – which includes left and right-wing parties, as well…

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In Brief: Arrests as Hamas welcomes Independence Day terror attack

Posted 10 May, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Hamas flag > Guilherme Paula, Oren neu dag, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Two terrorists who murdered three people in Elad on Israel’s Independence Day were arrested by police on Sunday. The suspects, who come from the West Bank village of Rummanah in the Jenin area and have no record of security offences, were captured in…

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LFI MPs: The existence of Israel is the strongest affirmation of Never Again

Posted 5 May, 2022 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP and parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP have written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Steve and Christian at the wall of the Krakow Ghetto. Standing in the former synagogue in the rural Polish town of Dabrowa Tarnowska, it is difficult to imagine that…

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In Brief: Israeli president speaks with Abbas following Jerusalem clashes

Posted 4 May, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israeli president Isaac Herzog > Elad Brami, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli president Isaac Herzog called the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, UAE and Bahrain at the weekend to wish them a happy Eid al-Fitr, his office said in a statement. He spoke with PA president Mahmoud Abbas, UAE crown prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed…

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In Brief: Israel’s outrage over Russian Holocaust propaganda

Posted 4 May, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics
Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin > Presidential Executive Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Russia’s foreign ministry this week accused Israel of supporting the “neo-Nazi regime” in Ukraine in the wake of Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s incendiary remarks on the Holocaust. In a statement on Tuesday, Russia accused Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid of making…

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Steps to a two state solution: Oppose unilateral actions by either side

Posted 3 May, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Eighteen: Oppose unilateral actions by either side The sole route to a viable, sustainable two-state solution is through a settlement resulting from direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. While Israel was right to withdraw from Gaza, the unilateral nature of this process…

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Israeli Labor staffers visit UK sister party

Posted 29 April, 2022 in Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
The UK Labour Party has this week hosted nine staffers from the Israeli Labor Party, including deputy mayor of Tel Aviv Chen Arieli and Havoda chief executive Nir Rosen. The group met with Labour leader Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner, were hosted for dinner by Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting, and also met with…

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