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In Brief: Outgoing Labor leader Amir Peretz won’t stand in new Israeli elections

Posted 13 January, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Amir Peretz Photo: רווח הפקות, CC BY-SA 3.0 The outgoing Labor leader Amir Peretz announced today that he won't stand in the Israeli general election scheduled for 23 March. Peretz announced he was quitting as Labor leader shortly after new Knesset elections were triggered last month following the government's failure to pass an annual budget. Peretz controversially broke…

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Analysis: How Israel came to lead the global vaccination drive

Posted 13 January, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Image Source: Our World in Data, CC BY 4.0 Israel continues to lead the world in the speed of its coronavirus vaccine rollout programme. Less than one month after Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Israeli to receive the covid-19 immunisation jab, the country has vaccinated over 22 percent of its population. By the start of this week, nearly three-quarters of…

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LFI Chair Steve McCabe MP Speaks in Parliamentary Global Britain Debate

Posted 12 January, 2021 in Coexistence, Iran, News
On Monday 11 January LFI Chair Steve McCabe spoke during a Global Britain debate which took place in the main chamber at the House of Commons. Steve urged the Government to support the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. Steve said the Fund, which has been pioneered by the Alliance for Middle East Peace and will provide support for non-governmental organisations and…

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Analysis: After Israel’s Morocco deal – what next?

Posted 16 December, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
King Mohammad. Photo: MehdiBitw98, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Morocco last week became the fourth Arab country in as many months to announce it would be normalising its relations with Israel. The announcement formalises relations between the two countries which the Moroccan foreign minister described over the weekend as “already normal”, and, given the ancient ties…

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In Brief: Hezbollah member gets five life terms for murder of former Lebanese PM

Posted 16 December, 2020 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
Rafiq al-Hairi. Photo: Helene C. Stikkel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A United Nations special tribunal last Friday sentenced a member of Hezbollah to five life sentences for his role in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hairi. Hairi (pictured), who was murdered in a bomb attack on his motorcade, had been attempting to curtail…

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In Brief: Knesset set to dissolve as new Sa’ar party soars and Blue and White implodes

Posted 16 December, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Gideon Sa'ar. Photo: Ziv Koren (זיו קורן), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Knesset appears on track to dissolve next Tuesday, triggering the fourth round of Israeli elections in a little under two years. Negotiations between Likud and Blue and White – the two largest parties in the country’s “unity government” – to resolve a…

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In Brief: FASC issues Iran warning as Tehran hangs dissident journalist 

Posted 16 December, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee this week issued a strong warning about Britain’s relationship with Iran. In a report entitled “No Prosperity Without Justice”, the committee suggested that Iran’s malign regional actions challenge the values which underpin British foreign policy. The warning came as Tehran executed dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam (pictured) who…

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LFI Join UK–Israel Knesset Friendship Group for Chanukah Candle Lighting Event

Posted 16 December, 2020 in Israel, News
On Tuesday 15 December, LFI parliamentarians joined members of the UK-Israel Knesset Friendship Group for a special cross-party Zoom event in which candles were lit for the sixth night of Chanukah. Before the candle lighting ceremony, the event heard comments from former Attorney General and former Deputy President of the Supreme Court Elyakim Rubinstein about the…

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