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Andrew Gwynne pushes FCDO to take initiative on peacebuilding

Posted 30 November, 2021 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI parliamentary supporter Andrew Gwynne MP today challenged Africa Minister Vicky Ford at FCDO Questions about why the UK government isn’t showing more initiative to support the creation of the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, as envisioned by ALLMEP. His question came following a written parliamentary question, in which the FCDO claimed that “US planning for…

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LFI vice chair: Keir’s stance against BDS and antisemitism is true Labour values

Posted 30 November, 2021 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair Diana Johnson MP has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. The recent speech to the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch by Keir Starmer offered not simply an intellectually coherent outline of his approach to the Middle East but one firmly rooted in our party’s mainstream democratic…

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Steps to a Two State Solution: Freeze Settlement Building

Posted 30 November, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Two: Freeze settlement building Continued Israeli settlement-building – especially that which occurs beyond the security barrier – represents an obstacle to a two-seat solution. Both in public and in private meetings with senior Israeli government representatives, LFI has consistently called both for an end…

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In Brief: Knesset introduces bill to limit prime ministerial term limits

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Knesset in session > Itzik Edri, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. The Knesset gave initial approval to a bill limiting prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office on Monday night. The coalition government passed the legislation’s first reading by 66 votes to 40 votes, with the Israeli-Arab majority Joint List party joining the…

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In Brief: Hezbollah smuggling weapons to Israel to ferment civil unrest

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
Hezbollah fighters at a ceremony > Ali Khamenei, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah is reportedly trying to smuggle weapons into Israel to ferment unrest within the Israeli-Arab community, a police official has said. Israeli police have seen a significant increase in efforts to smuggle weapons into the country via the Lebanese…

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In Brief: PA authority undermined amid West Bank gang violence

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Analysis, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA security forces. Image credit: Stop the Wall, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The authority of the Palestinian Authority was undermined amid scenes of disorder and violence in the West Bank last week. Charges that the PA was not doing enough to enforce law and order have led some Palestinian civilians to fear that violence…

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Analysis: Hamas strikes at the heart of Jerusalem

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Eliyahu David Kay > Facebook, via Times of Israel. A member of Hamas launched a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning, killing one Israeli civilian and wounding four others – including worshippers returning from the Western Wall. What happened  Hamas lauded the attack, in which 26-year-old tour guide Eliyahu David Kay died, as “a…

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LFI chair: For Israel, Palestine and peace, we must work towards a two-state solution

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Earlier this month, we marked the tragic assassination in 1995 of Yitzhak Rabin – an event that robbed Israel of a great soldier and statesman. Rabin’s signing of the Oslo Accords appeared to usher in…

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Steps to a two state solution: Tackle the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Posted 23 November, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step One: Tackle the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with emergency infrastructure plan for improving energy supplies, sanitation and clean water After more than a decade of war, Israeli and Egyptian restrictions, and Hamas misrule, the humanitarian situation in the coastal enclave is dire: the electricity…

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In Brief: Treat climate change as security issue, Knesset committee says

Posted 18 November, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Knesset in session > Itzik Edri, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. The Knesset’s powerful Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee have called for the Israeli government and security services to take the issue of climate change more seriously and to consider it a national security issue, given the threat of posed by global warming. “There is no…

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