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David Lammy’s announcement that the UK would be suspending 30 arms export licences to Israel kicked off a storm in the UK, in Israel and even in the US. Boris Johnson accused the Labour government of “abandoning” Israel and handing victory to Hamas. Back in April, Johnson claimed that a UK ban on arms sales to Israel would be “the death wish of western civilisation.”

.” Tammy Caner, a researcher in the Law and National Security program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), said it came in response to “pressure from the pro-Palestine elements within the [UK] Labour party, who wanted a total arms embargo.”

In Israel, there has been feverish speculation about the new Labour government’s readiness to impose a ban on UK arms sales to the country. Faced with escalating tensions in Lebanon, Britain is now reportedly delaying its decision, but that has done little to calm Israeli concern about what could happen if it did decide to go through with it. Although military exports to...

Currently, few would bet against Britain turning to Labour on the Fourth of July. That would mean that after 27 years, the upcoming elections in the UK have the potential to reenact the Labour win over the Conservative party, leading to a new – yet maybe less exciting – era in the political landscape of the UK.

Then there was the terrorist wave of 1985 and 1986, with around ten bomb attacks that killed 14 people and injured nearly 300 on French soil. The bloody episode is over, but Hezbollah is far from having deserted Europe. Active wherever Lebanese and Shiite Muslim diasporas are present, it now engages "mainly in social, civil, and religious activities aimed at promoting...

Israeli intelligence veteran Danny Citrinowicz made similar observations with regard to Hezbollah, warning against underestimating the expanding network of the Lebanese Shiite terror group on European soil. “In Europe, the main terror threats are considered to be Sunni groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS. You don’t really see them acting against Shiite radicalism,” said...

Adi Kantor, an expert on Germany and German-Israeli relations at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, does not expect the bilateral relationship to be shaken. “There is no doubt in Israel about Germany’s deep commitment to Israel’s security,” she says. “The conflict that Scholz has to deal with exists within Germany: between the political leadership,...

Dr. Ehud Rosen, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) specializing in political Islam, adds that in parallel to its military efforts, Hamas and its Islamist global support networks are engaging in a wide-ranging effort to challenge Israel’s standing on the international stage, carried out through a comprehensive framework of civil society groups.

From the day of its establishment three decades ago and during all the years of its existence, the Palestinian Authority (PA) functioned as a corrupt and failed semi-state entity. Not only did it fail to realize its historic national goal as a platform for the full implementation of Palestinian independence and the establishment of a sustainable state “with Jerusalem as its...

The EU decision to reduce dependence on Russian oil and gas has created the need for alternative sources, and the East Mediterranean was “discovered.”