In the spring of 2011, just a day after Hamas and Fatah made one of their announcements that they would be establishing a National Unity government, a senior journalist wrote the following on his Facebook…
Factories worked around the clock turning out munitions as the army tested their newest systems against a real enemy. Now, they are expecting their battle-tested products will win them new customers. Far from the fighting…
http://youtu.be/AdcYZw-KsSg United Nations officials described the killing of sleeping children as a disgrace to the world and accused Israel of a serious violation of international law after a school in Gaza being used to shelter…
Journalists love rows. We love them so much that we often let them distract us. Last week was no exception. Fascinated by an apparent bust-up between Israel and the European Union, most Middle East analysts (myself included)…
TENS of thousands of people have protested in London today against Israel’s action in Gaza as reports claim the death toll has reached over 1,000. Protesters march through London against Israel’s strikes on Gaza.[Getty] Activists…
Arsenal fans joined a pro-Palestine protest in west London today as fighting intensifies in the Middle East. The group of supporters were spotted with a banner which read ‘Gooners Against Apartheid’ and ‘Free Palestine’ at…
Three days after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the current war in Gaza, he held a press conference in Tel Aviv during which he said, in Hebrew, according to the Times of Israel,…
JERUSALEM — Israelis and Palestinians are imprisoned in what seems increasingly like a hermetically sealed bubble. Over the years, inside this bubble, each side has evolved sophisticated justifications for every act it commits. Israel can…
You’ve got to hand it to Israeli spinners like Mark Regev. They are masters of PR. In fact, as the Independent‘s Patrick Cockburn revealed over the weekend, “the playbook they are using is a professional,…
Kidnap, Crackdown, Mutual Missteps and a Hail of Rockets In the flood of angry words that poured out of Israel and Gaza during a week of spiraling violence, few statements were more blunt, or more…
At his Friday press conference, the prime minister ruled out full Palestinian sovereignty, derided the US approach to Israeli security, and set out his Middle East overview with unprecedented candor. His remarks were not widely…
On the eve of a threatened ground invasion of Gaza, the commander of the Israeli army’s Givati Brigade has told his soldiers that they are engaged in a war to “wipe out” an “enemy who…
The alternatives to military action shouldn’t only be examined when things blow up, but rather in the context of the months and years that preceded this latest round of fighting. When it comes to using…
The macabre truth is that Israeli life is deemed by the western media to be worth more than a Palestinian life – this is the hierarchy of death at work. “Israel under renewed Hamas attack”:…
You’ve got to admire Tony Blair’s tenacity. Despite his terrible failures in Iraq and with the Palestinian Authority, the former British prime minister continues to pontificate about the Middle East’s ills and cures. Seven years…