The first thing they do is cover your eyes. They make you strip to make sure you’re not carrying anything.…
Continue reading →Empty chair protest as Israelis ban Arafat from Bethlehem special Mass
At Midnight Mass in St Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church, the senior Roman Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch…
Continue reading →The scene is set for another Lebanon
Another Palestinian has killed himself in Jerusalem. He was walking towards the David Citadel Hotel in King David Street, where…
Continue reading →11 September
If I had been there and seen it up close in New York or Washington, I, too, might cry out…
Continue reading →The first casualty
IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast.…
Continue reading →Diary – celebrating a fiftieth birthday
The best thing about turning 50 is that you’ve had time to develop a healthy narcissism. While I tap out…
Continue reading →‘I was a victim of Assad’s regime’
IN 1987, following the kidnapping of Terry Waite, Hafez al-Assad moved his army down from Mount Lebanon into the Lebanese…
Continue reading →When in doubt, just bomb Lebanon
When Israel gets angry, try not to be Lebanese. It doesn’t seem to matter who provokes Israel’s wrath, its government…
Continue reading →When it’s OK to kill a hack
It’s official. Thirty-three journalists died violently in war zones last year. The figure – nine up on the year before…
Continue reading →Hacks versus flacks: Tales from the depths
The London media world is under fire and taking shelter. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s head flack, Alistair Campbell, has challenged…
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