What is E-1 and why do the international community care so much?
Seph Brown of the Council for Arab British Understanding (Caabu) explains what the E-1 settlement is and why the international community cares so much.
Seph Brown
Website Seph writes for Left Foot Forward on the Middle East and Foreign Policy. He is the Events and Membership Officer for the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu). He previously worked with the Palestinian Authority on economic and trade issues and has worked for the Labour Party as a parliamentary researcher and General Election organiser.
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Caabu’s Seph Brown outlines five reasons why the UK should back Palestine’s UN bid for non-member status in the General Assembly today.
Israel-Palestine in 2012
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Sunday’s violence on Israel’s borders represents new phase in Middle East conflict
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Inside the “We believe in Israel” conference
Seph Brown, the UK Director of Prosper Palestine, reports from the “We believe in Israel” conference, held at a location in central London yesterday.
Economic ties to settlements undermine Britain’s strong rhetoric
The launch of Prosper Palestine’s first research paper at the House of Commons on Monday could not have come at a more appropriate moment, writes Prosper Palestine’s UK Director Seph Brown.
Settlement construction remains an obstacle to peace
Over the last few years the world has been moving towards a growing consensus over a key barrier to peace in the region – continuing Israeli settlement of the Palestinian West Bank, reports Seph Brown.
Libya: Early jitters grow around intervention
International intervention in Libya has suffered an early setback with the public, politicians and analysts displaying serious misgivings regarding the scope, timescale and goals of the military campaign, writes Seph Brown.
Wave of unrest spreads to Syria
As the world comes to terms with intervention in Libya, and while Yemen and Bahrain once again resort to violence to quell popular uprisings, another Arab state has begun to feel the familiar rumbling of unrest, reports Seph Brown.
Beyond Libya, Howard Davies had never got to grips with the Middle East
Seph Brown looks at Howard Davies’s serial failures of moral leadership over the Middle East – not just his close financial links the the vile Gaddafi regime.