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LFI vice-chair writes to Middle East minister on peace-building funding following parliamentary debate

Posted 25 November, 2020 in Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Catherine McKinnell. Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell has written to Middle East minister James Cleverely following last week's parliamentary debate calling for the UK to back an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Ms McKinnell's debate is part of a long-running LFI campaign to secure greater support from the…

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LFI Hosts Parliamentary Briefing with ALLMEP

Posted 18 November, 2020 in Coexistence, Israel, News
  On Tuesday November 17th LFI hosted a parliamentary briefing with John Lyndon, Executive Director of ALLMEP, the Alliance for Middle East Peace. ALLMEP is a coalition of over 125 organisations—and tens of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis—building people-to-people cooperation, coexistence, equality, shared society, mutual understanding, and peace among their communities. The briefing was a unique opportunity for parliamentarians…

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Analysis: LFI MPs push for International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell led a debate in parliament today calling for the British government to support the establishment of an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The debate is part of a long-running campaign by LFI – ‘For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace’ – to back the fund, which would invest in peacebuilding projects that bring…

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In Brief: Hamas recruiting minors to carry out terror attacks, says Israel

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Hamas has been recruiting minors to carry out terrorist attacks, Israeli security forces have said. Two Palestinian minors, including a 16-year-old, were arrested last month after Hamas recruited them over the internet, Shin Bet has revealed. They have now been indicted by the Juvenile Military Court. The two minors were to be provided with weapons, ammunition, uniforms…

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In Brief: Iran has 12 times permitted amount of uranium, IAEA finds

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
July 2015 Iran nuclear deal: agreement in Vienna. From left to right: Foreign ministers/secretaries of state Wang Yi (China), Laurent Fabius (France), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Federica Mogherini (EU), Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran), Philip Hammond (UK), John Kerry (USA). (Photo: Dragan Tatic, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) Iran has stockpiled more than 12 times the amount of enriched uranium…

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In Brief: Top Trump appointee accused of antisemitic remarks about Israel

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Antisemitism
Col. Douglas Macgregor. Photo: BMG-2048, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A newly appointed adviser to the US secretary of defence has been accused of making antisemitic remarks after suggesting that American politicians become “very very rich” by supporting Israel. Douglas Macgregor, a retired army colonel, has been given the post of adviser to Donald Trump’s acting…

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LFI Vice-Chair: ‘Global Britain’ must mean investing in Israeli-Palestinian peace-building

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Coexistence, News, Peace process
David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons LFI vice-chair Diana Johnson MP has written for LabourList, click here to read the original. My fellow Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair Catherine McKinnell has today secured a parliamentary debate on UK support for an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. This debate could not come at a better time. The US…

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LFI secures parliamentary debate in support of coexistence

Posted 13 November, 2020 in News
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell has secured a debate in parliament on UK support for coexistence projects through an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. This is the next stage in LFI's long-running campaign in support of those NGOs that bring ordinary Israelis and Palestinians together in the spirit of…

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In Brief: Rifts in Blue and White party deepen as budget crisis nears

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Rifts within Benny Gantz's Blue and White party appear to be deepening as the crisis over Israel's budget deepens and new elections loom. If no budget is passed by late December the government will automatically dissolve. Benjamin Netanyahu is widely suspected to be stalling on the budget in order to call snap elections. In the coalition…

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In Brief: Veteran Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat dies of covid aged 65

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Saeb Erekat and Livni (Minister of Justice, State of Israel). Photo: Marc Muller,  CC BY 3.0 DE , via Wikimedia Commons Saeb Erekat, who helped negotiate the Oslo Accords, died yesterday of covid-19. He passed away at Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Centre, to which he had been transferred last month after testing positive for the illness. Erekat, who was…

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