Gilad Shalit was released today after five years being held captive by Hamas, released in return for the freeing by Israel of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair described the developments as “a moment of opportunity”, offeringtest
Alex Hern reports on shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander’s RUSI speech today, in which he laid out how British foreign policy should respond to the Arab Spring.
Tony Blair hit back against allegations of financial impropriety relating to his Middle East role in an interview on Indian TV last night, reports Shamik Das.
Katharina Klebba, events manager of the Fabian Society, on the many attacks on European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Baroness Catherine Ashton.
Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s long-serving deputy, the man described as the “operational brains behind 9/11”, was today appointed bin Laden’s successor as al-Qaeda chief.
Seph Brown, the UK Director of Prosper Palestine, reports from the “We believe in Israel” conference, held at a location in central London yesterday.
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.
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.
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.
Ed Balls has warned that George Osborne may be “making the same mistakes” as Thatcher “all over again”, and that he’s got just two weeks “to come up with a plan B for the Budget”.
