Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour
Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond…
Is Israel trying to drag America into a war with Iran?
The American general David Petraeus famously asked of the invasion of Iraq: ‘Tell me how this ends.’ That’s the question…
Hezbollah’s exploding pagers are just the start
Israel’s security cabinet met in a bunker in the ministry of defence in Tel Aviv on Monday night. The main…
The mad, bad, sad world of Ryan Routh
Any journalist who has covered a war will recognise Ryan Routh’s type immediately – the war zone nutter. Routh is currently…
Can anything stop a full-scale conflict in the Middle East?
The fact that the Middle East stands on the brink of a catastrophic war can be explained by a scene…
AI and the new way of war
What is happening in Gaza now provides a glimpse of how all wars may be fought in the future —…
Could a Trump conviction really change the presidential election?
The first time I heard the name ‘Michael Cohen’ was in 2015, from a Republican political operative who told me:…
Inside the new Arab-Israeli alliance
As Jordanian fighter jets shot down Iranian drones heading for Israel on Saturday night, there were joyful cries of Allahu…
Low birth rates are a threat to humanity
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely – old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside – but…
How low birth rates could threaten our civilization
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely — old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside…
Have the Houthis gone rogue?
The US and Britain really didn’t think they had a choice about bombing Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on…
Can the killing of innocent civilians ever be justified?
Israel has made the first, rather tentative, moves of its ground operation against Hamas – but there’s nothing tentative about…