Israel
Notes on Obama’s visit to Israel and moving towards peace
The Israeli and Palestinian territories on the West Bank are messy and confusing. This weekend I was quite taken aback when I was stopped by a defiant military security guard when crossing the green line to the Western wall, and asked whether I liked it “here, in Israel”, despite theoretically still being on Palestinian land.
By Marina Watson Pelez | Notebook | Thursday, 28 March 2013 at 4:46 pm
The Evil Review of Books
The London Review of Books pretends to be a sophisticated intellectual journal that publishes fine writing, often at some length. Which, some of the time, it does. It also publishes some appalling so-called leftist tosh, such as Mary Beard writing that America “had it coming” on 9/11, and it is rigidly anti-Israel.
That is because it [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 3:46 pm
The Doran Test
To go on about it, Tom Doran’s article for Jewish Journal is good. To take one detail, I liked his summary of the formula used by the anti-left to decide its position on anything happening anywhere in the world:
1. Which side is the United States on?
2. Which side has all the money/ weaponry?
3. Which side, [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 12 January 2013 at 1:21 pm
Why I Am a Zionist Too
I can’t remember when I first came across Tom Doran, but it was less than a year ago. One of the best things about Twitter is that it discovers new writing talent more efficiently than any other medium. In just 140 characters, his wit, intelligence and seriousness came through, and led me to some of [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 11 January 2013 at 10:21 pm
Review of Homeland ‘State of Independence’
It may have taken until the third episode of the series, but the big news from this week’s installment of Homeland is that the jazz is back.
By Charles Reynolds | Arts | Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 11:00 pm
Yasser Arafat and when poison ‘kills the president’
Mouth-searing and palate-pleasing narratives about assassinations that have a cunningly secretive nature about them have become all too common in the last 50 years — and non more so than when the victims turn out to be those of great controversy.
By Mohammad I. Aslam | Notebook | Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 4:00 am
This conflict in the Holy Land must end – for the children’s sake
The enduring fact of the failure of peace in the so-called Holy Land is a royal spring of misery from which bitter tensions flow, with mournful consequences for the entire restive middle-east region, already strained by wars and rumours of wars.
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 9 July 2012 at 12:26 pm
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By Laura Davis | Notebook | Friday, 29 June 2012 at 3:19 pm
Note to refugees from South Sudan: Israel is for the white man
These were the astonishing words uttered by Israel’s interior minister Eli Yishai in an interview recently in which he outlined the Israeli government’s view of African migrants.
By Richard Sudan | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 22 June 2012 at 7:19 pm
Iran, Israel, Gandalf and the bomb
Sometimes fantasy makes more sense than fiction. When looking at the latest developments in the diplomatic standoff between Iran and several Western nations, the words of Gandalf in that epic Lord of The Rings trailer spring to mind. “The board is set”, murmured the White Wizard. “The pieces are moving”.
By Musa Okwonga | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 18 June 2012 at 3:08 pm
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