Review of Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel John Murray, 480 pp, £10.99, September 2011, ISBN…
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A revolution in 1972 where Palestinians first lost their way
Despite what you read, this year’s Arab Spring is not the first Arab revolution of the modern era. There have…
Continue reading →The Two-State Solution
Try to see it from the other guy’s point of view. He may be wrong. He may be, at least…
Continue reading →Likudniks
You have to love Likud, Israel’s governing party. Its politicians may not be as smooth as Labor’s grandees, but they…
Continue reading →A needless death in Gaza, and one less witness to its plight
The spectacle of a European or North American hostage – shackled and blindfolded – has been a recurring sight in…
Continue reading →Goldstone’s Guide to Gaza
It takes courage to confront Israel on the battlefield. Egypt, Syria, and Jordan’s puffed-up armies learned that lesson in June…
Continue reading →Britain can never atone for its colonial past
David Cameron spoke with unusual candour for a British prime minister a few days ago when he told university students…
Continue reading →Why Libertarians Should Support the Palestinians
Israel is at it again, caught by its own free press with its hand in the till-not so much the…
Continue reading →Israel’s Great Loyalty Oath Crusade
Captain Black from Catch-22 is back, but this time he’s Israel’s Foreign Affairs Minister. Although Avigdor Lieberman only rose to…
Continue reading →Counterpoint: Land and Sovereignty
In the elegant and incisive style that characterizes all of his writing, James Carroll set out in these pages (“The…
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