Israel
Letters: Why Douglas Murray should attend the St Paul’s rave
The need for Mammon Sir: Douglas Murray is right to wince at Sadiq Khan’s gloating over the partnership at St…
Portrait of the week: Britain sanctions Jewish settlements, Dover protests erupt and the AfD wins big
Home Ed Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, set out in the Commons new restrictions on buying goods made in Jewish settlements…
Ed Miliband has chosen to make British Jews less safe
On Tuesday, the Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, noted that the government is devoting an extra £250 million this year to…
The Israeli settlements lie
There are few phrases in international affairs repeated with greater confidence or subjected to less scrutiny than ‘illegal Israeli settlements’.…
Britain’s sanctions against Israel will backfire
The historian Niall Ferguson, sometimes of this parish, said: “The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of…
Why Britain’s West Bank sanctions are savvy politics
British PM Andy Burnham’s move to impose sanctions on West Bank settlements is politically savvy – but not because it…
The sanctimonious campaign against Boy George
In the musical Allegra, which has just finished its run, I ran around singing, dancing and jumping on tables for…
Finally – an authoritative, stimulating history of the modern Middle East
Ranging from Sudan to Azerbaijan, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s balanced account provides us with the necessary background to form our own views of what’s happening in the region
Looking for Katrin: Rory MacLean goes in search of his dead wife
In an attempt to find some meaning in his grief, the author explores how different faiths, philosophies or ‘timeless traditions’ embrace the afterlife
The man who could topple Benjamin Netanyahu
The year is 2019 and, after almost a full term in office, Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government of right-wing and religious…
Will Hamas really disarm?
No one imagined that Hamas would voluntarily hand over its weapons and turn to politics and peace in the Gaza…
Does the Donroe Doctrine support Argentina on the Falklands?
So FIFA is going to take action against the Argentinian players for unfurling their “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” banner after…
America is still gripped by the gerontocracy
What do senior Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and Iran’s new Supreme Leader have in common? Not a lot, except that…
Israel’s plan for a new Iran war
Metaphorically speaking, champagne bottles were uncorked in the Jerusalem office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Donald Trump declared…
Will Bibi go into exile?
In January 2027, Benjamin Netanyahu could leave office for the final time. In the middle of a corruption trial at…
Can Israel fend off Hezbollah without alienating America?
As the 60-day period of negotiations stipulated by the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US gets under way,…
Iran is a loser’s victory
After years of negotiations, two wars, a succession of ruthlessly quashed uprisings in Iran and countless billions of dollars’ worth…
For J.D. Vance, Israel is the new Ukraine
J.D. Vance didn’t call Benjamin Netanyahu out by name, but in sternly reprimanding the “Cabinet of the Israeli government” from…
Only Iran is happy with Trump’s peace deal
President Trump might have thought that negotiating an interim diplomatic understanding with Iran was going to be the hard part.…
Is Trump going to defund Israel?
Cutting US military aid to Israel was once an impossible dream of the most extreme fringe of the Democratic party.…
Sixteen times that Trump nearly ended the Iran war
Today marks a hundred days since America and Israel began launching strikes on Iran on February 28. The very next…
Is the US-Israel alliance breaking down?
This morning at 5.53am, air raid sirens sounded across Tel Aviv. War-weary locals largely went about their business as usual…
Portrait of the week: Sturgeon speaks, Henry Nowak’s killer is jailed and Mandelson’s messages are released
Home Vickrum Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of Henry…
I refuse to be cancelled
I have been opening a play. It is called Allegra and is about a woman who is relentlessly happy. This…
Where Thomas Massie went wrong
What happens when a Republican congressman turns his primary election into a referendum on Donald Trump? What happens when he…
