“The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists,” says Gilles Kepel in his…
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The power network
Publicly, Israel will not do business with those who do not recognise it. But behind the scenes is a complex…
Continue reading →A clear sign of madness
In December 1968, Israeli commandos destroyed 13 aircraft of Lebanon’s national carrier, Middle East Airlines, at Beirut airport. Why? One…
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 →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 →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 →Death of our moral guardian: where has journalistic integrity gone?
The demolition men have torn her guts out and ripped away her facade, but her ramparts, pubs on all sides,…
Continue reading →Sex, the city and the Dona Juanas – predatory females do not inspire great art
Predatory males inspired great art. Their female counterparts don’t. My friend Rupert confessed that the flame-haired American girl, who used…
Continue reading →A prejudice as American as apple pie – American filmmaker Ed Zwick’s ‘The Siege’
A new film that depicts Arabs as blood-thirsty terrorists is creating a storm in the States. Charles Glass, in New…
Continue reading →For Love of Justice: The Life of a Quixotic Soldier
Major Derek Cooper is one of the last of that endangered species, the English gentleman. Though his own memoirs, Dangerous…
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