Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu thinks he’s Churchill, Israelis see Chamberlain
Aleading member of Israel’s wartime cabinet has threatened to resign should Benjamin Netanyahu fail to present a strategy for ending…
Permanent stalemate in Gaza suits Netanyahu
Jerusalem After midnight on Thursday is dead-time for the Israeli media. The weekend editions have gone to print (newspapers don’t…
Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly seen as Israel’s curse
Jerusalem On Tuesday, I was driving down to an Israeli army headquarters on the border with Gaza as…
The increasing irrelevance of Benjamin Netanyahu
The increasing irrelevance of Israel’s PM
Netanyahu’s war on lawyers has thrown Israel into turmoil
Chaos reigns in Israel, a country in the throes of an ad hoc general strike called by trade unions, university…
It looks like Bibi is back from the dead
Could it really be over? As Israeli political reporters stand before their cameras or hunch over their keyboards, their brains…
Can Naftali Bennett’s anti-Bibi coalition survive?
Sunday saw a watershed moment in Israeli politics: Bibi Netanyahu was removed from power after 12 years, and his government…
Don’t count Bibi out just yet
Elections are supposed to settle things. That’s the idea, at least. Politicians argue, take decisions and pursue the policies they…
Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Jared Kushner. Seriously!
In these pages last year, I suggested that while the President’s son-in-law may not be a great geo-strategic mind, we…
Why Benjamin Netanyahu has outlasted all his political rivals
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signed a coalition agreement, after a year of uncertainty and three elections, to create…
Islam, reform and the battle of narratives
Is a wind of change blowing in the Arab world and bringing Muslims and Jews closer together? Ed Husain made…
Jeremy Corbyn’s bumbling has silenced legitimate criticism of Israel
If I were Benjamin Netanyahu (and I’m not) I would be thanking whatever gods there be for sending me, at…
What does friendship with Israel really mean?
Harold Macmillan once remarked that: ‘There are three bodies no sensible man ever directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the…
Harry Mount’s diary: Class war with classicists and wisdom from Brian Sewell
I never knew classicists could be so scary! Last week I wrote a Telegraph article saying classics exams had been…
The Conservatives should be the party of immigrants — and here’s how they can be
For a long while, the Conservatives have been puzzled about their lack of popularity among immigrants. In theory, the Conservative…
Forget Geneva: the real US-Iran carve-up is happening in Iraq
While Obama talks centrifuges in Geneva, Iranian-backed militia are redrawing the map of Iraq
Why state bureaucracy is crucial to our happiness
Francis Beckett 13 July 2024 9:00 am
With politicians increasingly sabotaging the machinery of government worldwide, our only protection lies in the civil service, judiciary, police and security services