Archive: Israel And Palestine

Grounded: EasyJet refuses Palestinian campaigners

Campaigners intended to help build a school in the Palestinian territories.

EasyJet is refusing to fly Palestinian campaigners to Tel Aviv, after Israeli authorities sent a list of named suspected activists to airlines.

UK restores aid to Palestinian government

Pro-Palestinian protest targets the BBC

Urgent Blair presses for Palestinian peace

Comment: Why can't we question the existence of Israel?

Ian Dunt: 'This is evidence of an emotionally unbalanced approach to world affairs'

Lady Tonge has had the whip withdrawn for saying "Israel is not going to be there forever". But why shouldn't we question it?

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Comment: Fences don't make us safe

Dr Polly Pallister-Wilkins

Fence-building is a lazy policy solution. So why are so many countries still doing it?

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Comment: What is Palestine's UN strategy?

Jonathan Cummings is the Director of the Israel office of BICOM, the Britain Israel Communications and Research and Centre (www.bicom.org.uk). He writes in a personal capacity.

Three ways in which Palestine's UN bid damages their own cause.

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Comment: Palestine solution is at the negotiating table

Louise Ellman has been Labour Co-operative MP for Liverpool Riverside since 1997. She is also vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.

Negotiations and tough compromises are the only way to achieve two states for two peoples.

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Comment: Britain's moral responsibility to Palestine

Kamel Hawwash is a British Palestinian academic with the University of Birmingham and vice-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

This week the Palestinians will make representations for statehood to the UN. Britain should support them.

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'Time against Gaddafi' as helicopters hit Tripoli

Is time running out for Gaddafi? Reports from the ground are mixed.

Time is running out for Colonel Gaddafi following sustained helicopter attacks on the Libyan capital, the foreign secretary has said.

UK's war crimes threat over Israel still in place

Binyamin Netanyahu says Palestinian unity accord is bad news for peace

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is understood to have raised concerns about British law during his visit to No 10.

Hague fears for Middle East peace

Tranquility in Israel is only ever skin-deep

Unrest across North Africa and the Middle East could set the peace process back by decades, William Hague has warned.

Comment: Time to get serious with Israel

Sandra Osborne is the Labour MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock

There remain shocking human rights abuses in the West Bank.

Comment: Ending the Gaza blockade

Julian Huppert MP: Photograph (c) Matt Smith Photography

Historical one-upmanship in the Middle East risks being never-ending. Britain must encourage leadership on both sides to end the destructive blockade of the Gaza strip.

Israel lashes out at UK as Hague lands for trip

The timing of the announcement appears timed to humiliate the foreign secretary

Israel has postponed "strategic dialogue" with the UK over security issues, just as William Hague arrives in the country.

Miliband 'not a friend of Israel'

Ed Miliband has been criticised for not attending Labour Friends of Israel

The Jewish community have reportedly offered a mixed reaction to the election of Ed Miliband to the Labour leadership.

Hague and Blair share Gaza relief

Reconstruction in Gaza will be accelerated as a result of blockade easing

Israel's decision to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip prompted relieved statements from foreign secretary William Hague and Quartet envoy Tony Blair last night.

Trimble on Gaza flotilla inquiry

International condemnatio of Israel's blockade increased after the attack

Israel had rejected UN demands for an independent international inquiry into its attack on an aid flotilla, but appointed two foreign observers to its domestic committee.

Britain wants international Israel inquiry

The attack on a Gaza aid ship has prompted international condemnation

Britain and France have issued a joint demand for an international presence on a probe into the Israeli military's raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship.

No bloodshed, but Israel vows to deport activists

Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to turn a corner with the treatement of the Rachel Corrie, which is named after an activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer

Israel is preparing to deport the 11 campaigners and eight crew members of the Rachel Corrie aid ship after it unsuccessfully tried to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Brit activists slowly make their way home from Israel

Israeli Defence Forces board the aid ship last Monday

The first trickle of British activists arrested on board the Turkish aid ships at the centre of an international crisis have finally begun returning to the UK.

Hague gets tough with Israel

A flotilla activist is reunited with his family

William Hague has ratcheted up the criticism of Israel's strike against an aid ship, saying the episode went beyond "what was warranted and proportionate".

Hague: Israel must end the blockade

Mr Hague will be discussing the matter with his European counterparts this afternoon

The foreign secretary has joined the growing chorus of criticism of Israel's strike against an aid shipment with a demand for the blockade of Gaza to end.

Govt under pressure over knowledge of Dubai murder passports

The murder suspects in the Dubai killing

The government found itself under intense pressure today to explain when it found out about the use of British passports in the assassination of a senior Hamas figure in Dubai.

UK/Israeli relations under threat as Dubai row escalates

British Israeli relations may be damaged over the affair

The dispute over the assassination of a senior Hamas official threatens to derail relations between Britain and Israel today, as the government steps up pressure.

Brown calls for investigation into Dubai assassination

CCTV footgae sheds some light on events in Dubai

The prime minister called for an investigation into the murdered a senior Hamas official in Dubai which used the stolen identity of six British citizens.

Anti-semitism 'on the rise'

The Gaza conflict appears to be behind the surge in anti-semitic attacks

Gordon Brown has called last year's highest levels of anti-semitism on record "deeply troubling".

Israeli minister calls off British trip

Israeli vice prime minister Moshe Ya'alon is alleged to have cancelled a planned visit to Britain.

Israeli vice prime minister Moshe Ya'alon is alleged to have cancelled a planned visit to Britain over fears he could be arrested on war crimes charges.

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