Paul Wood

Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour

5 October 2024 9:00 am

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?

28 September 2024 9:00 am

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

21 September 2024 9:00 am

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

18 September 2024 11:37 pm

Any journalist who has covered a war will recognise Ryan Routh’s type immediately – the war zone nutter. Routh is currently…

I’m confused

14 September 2024 9:00 am

Punch and Judy

24 August 2024 9:00 am

Can anything stop a full-scale conflict in the Middle East?

10 August 2024 9:00 am

The fact that the Middle East stands on the brink of a catastrophic war can be explained by a scene…

Lost his seat

13 July 2024 9:00 am

Nemesis

6 July 2024 9:00 am

Ozempic

1 June 2024 9:00 am

AI and the new way of war

15 May 2024 11:55 pm

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?

14 May 2024 6:50 pm

The first time I heard the name ‘Michael Cohen’ was in 2015, from a Republican political operative who told me:…

I have a confession

11 May 2024 9:00 am

Inside the new Arab-Israeli alliance

20 April 2024 9:00 am

As Jordanian fighter jets shot down Iranian drones heading for Israel on Saturday night, there were joyful cries of Allahu…

Do you promise?

13 April 2024 9:00 am

Low birth rates are a threat to humanity

25 February 2024 5:30 pm

The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely – old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside – but…

Taylor Swift eats her broccoli

17 February 2024 9:00 am

How low birth rates could threaten our civilization

16 February 2024 7:30 am

The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely — old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside…

Have the Houthis gone rogue?

13 January 2024 1:46 am

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?

4 November 2023 9:00 am

Israel has made the first, rather tentative, moves of its ground operation against Hamas – but there’s nothing tentative about…