Publicly, Israel will not do business with those who do not recognise it. But behind the scenes is a complex…
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Obituary of Imad Mougnieh: Elusive Hizbollah leader
The United States had credited Mougnieh with the 1983 bombing of its embassy in Beirut and the destruction of the…
Continue reading →The life of a hostage: terrifying, unjust and expendable
Alan Johnston told a press conference after his release yesterday morning, “They did threaten my life a number of times.…
Continue reading →A patriotic thought experiment
“I am going to teach [them] to elect good men.” –President Woodrow Wilson, referring to his decision in 1914 to…
Continue reading →Obituary – Major Derek Cooper, MC, OBE, World War II hero who espoused the Palestinian cause
There was no more improbable sight in Beirut during the brutal Israeli siege of 1982 than a graceful and elegant…
Continue reading →Cyber-Jihad
When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me.…
Continue reading →Walled Off: Sharon’s fence turns villages into prisons
Az-Zawieh, West Bank – The soldier, automatic rifle slung over his shoulder like a kid’s backpack, approached the car and…
Continue reading →‘It was necessary to uproot them’
Reviews of: A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe Cambridge, 333 pp, £15.99 The Gun…
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…
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