Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace
Step Five: Encourage Arab states to normalise relations with Israel and deepen the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords – the 2020 agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco to establish diplomatic relations – represent a ground-breaking shift in the relationship between…
PA security forces. Image credit: Stop the Wall, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A majority of Palestinians believe that corruption in Palestinian Authority institutions has increased in 2021, according to a public opinion poll published this week.
The poll, conducted by the Coalition for Integrity and Accountability at the start of October, also found that many…
Bennett in the UAE > WAM via Reuters, via NBC News.
Naftali Bennett this week became the first Israeli prime minister to pay an official visit to the United Arab Emirates. The prime minister’s trip came just over a year after the signing of the historic Abraham Accords and highlights the increasingly close ties between Israel…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace
Step Four: Support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and re-establish UK support for peace-building work
Modelled on the highly successful International Fund for Ireland, an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace would allow the international community to lay the civic society foundations for…
Israeli and Emirati students celebrate Hannukah > Sharaka, via Times of Israel
Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have celebrated the Jewish festival of Hannukah and Emirati unification day together for the first time since they normalised relations via the Abraham Accords last summer.
“Hannukah in the UAE was eight days of miracles”, Rabbi Elie…
Israeli flags being burnt in Gaza > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A wave of terror attacks by Palestinians against Israelis in Jerusalem and the West Bank have been linked to an increase in incitement against Israel by Palestinian terror groups.
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other Gaza-based groups have all called for…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace
Step Three: Demand an end to the Palestinian Authority’s payment of salaries to convicted terrorists and the payment of rewards to the families of “martyrs”
The Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying “salaries” to those convicted of terrorist offences and to the families of deceased terrorist “martyrs”…
Koutoubia Mosque, Marrakech > Marcin Sochanki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz has said that Israel hopes for its renewed ties with Morocco to develop into a deep and robust relationship with longer staying power.
Speaking after a two-day visit to Rabat, where he signed an extensive memorandum of understanding with Morocco,…
Palestine Trade Tower > omarremawi11, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A number of Palestinian factories in the West Bank will be able to sell their products to European markets for the first time as part of a plan approved by Israel’s defence minister, Benny Gantz, to strengthen and improve the economic standing of the Palestinian…
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…
