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LFI chair: Steps to a Two State Solution: Positive ways to restart the search for peace

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons This year saw the 30th anniversary of the election victory that brought Yitzhak Rabin to power in Israel. Three short years later, after a rare period of hope that the tragic conflict…

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LFI launches Steps to a Two State Solution pamphlet

Posted 26 October, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel is delighted to publish its latest policy briefing, Steps to a Two State Solution.    The two state solution is the only means by which to guarantee Israel’s security and to preserve its identity as a Jewish and democratic state, as well as to satisfy the legitimate demand of the Palestinian people for self-determination and national sovereignty.  …

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LFI director: UK’s soft approach to Iran human rights violations

Posted 14 October, 2022 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jerusalem Post. Click here to read the original. Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi > Mehr News Agency, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This week, the UK Foreign Office, at last, announced it was imposing a handful of sanctions on Iran as the regime continues to violently crackdown…

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In Brief: Hamas revives ties with Assadist Syria in anti-Israel ‘axis’

Posted 13 October, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Bashar al-Assad > Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Palestinian terror group Hamas has revived relations with the Assad regime in Syria following a decade’s freeze sparked by the Syrian civil war. Hamas, founded in 1987, is committed to Israel’s destruction and its replacement with an Islamic state. The group seized power in the Gaza Strip…

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Analysis: Israel seeks to head off PIJ terror threat

Posted 10 August, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israel's prime minister, Yair Lapid: "Our fight is not with the people of Gaza. Islamic Jihad is an Iranian proxy that wants to destroy the State of Israel and kill innocent Israelis." Three days of fighting between Israel and an Iranian-backed terror group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ended late on Sunday evening. A ceasefire, negotiated by the…

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Steps to a two state solution: Increase exit permits to allow Gaza residents to study abroad

Posted 18 July, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty Seven: Increase exit permits to allow Gaza residents to study abroad After Hamas’ 2007 coup in Gaza, and its use of the coastal enclave as a base from which to launch terror attacks into Israel, restrictions imposed by Israel and Egypt made the movement…

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Shadow Minister: Labour “seriously concerned” by Iranian threat to Israel

Posted 1 July, 2022 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
At a Backbench Business Debate co-sponsored by LFI chair Steve McCabe MP yesterday, shadow Middle East Minister Bambos Charalambous MP laid out Labour's "serious concern" about "the threats that Iran has made against Israel". He also made clear Labour's view that "there is an imperative" to move the issues of Tehran's ballistic missile programme, its support…

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LFI chair speaks in backbench business debate on Iran and the JCPOA

Posted 1 July, 2022 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP spoke in today's Backbench Business Debate on Iran and the JCPOA, which he co-sponsored alongside Robert Jenrick MP. He called for a "clear-sighted and comprehensive strategy" to tackle the Iranian regime's many malign activities. Discussing Tehran's ballistic missile programme, he  also reminded colleagues that "the destruction of the State of Israel is…

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In Brief: Israel to offer work visas to persecuted LGBT Palestinians

Posted 21 June, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
Hilton Beach at Tel Aviv Pride, Tel Aviv Israel 1640001 > Ted Eytan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Knesset committee for foreign workers, headed by Labor MK Ibtisam Mara’ana, has this week considered the need for work visas for LGBT Palestinians facing persecution in the West Bank and Gaza. The hearing took place after…

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Steps to a two state solution: Support the reunification of the West Bank and Gaza under PA authority

Posted 21 June, 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 Twenty Four: Support the reunification of the West Bank and Gaza under PA authority The reunification of the West Bank and Gaza is a crucial step in the establishment of a viable Palestinian state. It is also a key demand of the Palestinian people…

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