Israel
Under fire in Israel
The anti-Semitic West almost seems to want Israelis to suffer
… and in Gaza
Gaza The main entrance to Al-Shifa Hospital was crowded with what seemed to be journalists. This wasn’t unusual. They…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, ordered a review, taking perhaps ten weeks, by Peter Wanless, the head of the…
When did Israel start to seem so bafflingly foreign?
Glaring, the ennui over Israel. The way we drag our eyes to the page, and sigh, and want to read…
Letter from Tel Aviv
‘There’s a dark cloud rising from the desert floor/ I packed my bags and I’m heading straight into the storm/…
I love Israel, so I’m allowed at least one bad joke about it
I expect all of us have said something we regret at one time or another, but not everyone does so…
With death came glory
Eschewing the biblical advertising of ‘the promised land’ or indeed ‘a land of milk and honey’, the Conservative colonial secretary…
Absent friends
Israelis’ theories on why it’s fashionable for the West to despise them
A romantic dream
‘On the night of 15 April 1897, a small, elegant steamer is en route from Egypt’s Port Said to Jaffa.’…
