In the first half of this year, pirates attacked 234 ships, an increase of almost 40 percent over seaborne assaults…
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Amid the squat concrete towers and traffic bridges of the new and expanding Damascus, a few mud-brick houses endure like…
Continue reading →Iraq 2003, Lebanon 1982
People cheered when the United States Marines marched into the capital. At last, someone would restore order, remove the thugs…
Continue reading →The lessons of Lebanon
People cheered when the US marines marched into the capital. At last someone would restore order, remove the thugs and…
Continue reading →Iraq Must Go!
Charles Glass considers the history of ‘regime change’ in the Gulf There is a dry wind blowing through the East,…
Continue reading →A Palestinian Mandela?
One place to look for the “new and different Palestinian leadership” that President George Bush demanded last Monday, is Petach…
Continue reading →Sharon, the failed kingmaker
Voices in Israel, including within Ariel Sharon’s cabinet, are calling on their prime minister to crown his reconquista of the…
Continue reading →Have we learnt nothing from Rwanda?
India and Pakistan are at war. A million troops stand mobilised on either side of the 1972 line of control…
Continue reading →Palestine’s Petain?
Yasser Arafat Has Escaped Again – But His People Are Having To Pay For His Liberty The old fox escaped…
Continue reading →Ending the occupation
Paris The return of Secretary of State Colin Powell to Israel has revived language that, until now, the Bush administration…
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