Gaza
An Israeli ground assault would be devastating for Gaza
On a patch of scrubland outside the Zikim kibbutz earlier this week, I came across a platoon of Merkava 4…
What Iran gains from the conflict in Israel
What Iran gains from provoking Israel
Can Israelis trust the UN?
You probably think you’ve heard every story there is to hear about people getting fired over their tweets. Well, here’s…
The problem with the New York Times’ Gaza coverage
While war raged between Israel and Gaza, the New York Times published a powerful montage of 64 minors said to…
How London became a hub for Hamas
As the dust settles over Gaza, and Israel’s Iron Dome sensors cool, minds inevitably turn to the lessons that can…
The disinformation war continues between Israel and Hamas
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has started, and the gates to Gaza have opened for the international press. Now…
How Israel won the war
Golda Meir, Israel’s first female Prime Minister, once said that when forced to choose between being ‘dead and pitied’ or…
Why do parts of Britain erupt whenever Israel defends itself?
There has been a huge amount of comment in recent days on the latest round of exchanges between Israel and…
Hamas, not Israel, is to blame for the latest bloodshed
I was born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in Jerusalem and lived in a UN refugee camp from 1966 until…
Hamas's rockets are killing Palestinians too
Israel’s military action in Gaza is widely reported daily across the world. Images of hundreds of rockets lighting up the…
Don't compare Israel to Hamas
No, not this time, Boris. The Prime Minister’s ‘both sides’ response to the terrorist attacks on Israel underscores how Western…
Rod Liddle: Tunnelling my way into Gaza
I’m meant to be peering into a tunnel hacked out by Hamas a few hundred metres from Gaza City into…
Bombs and begonias: gardening in a war zone
During the civil war in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, Mr and Mrs Roami, a science professor and a nurse,…
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…
Highly charged territory
I first heard of this tragicomic spy romp around Israel and Palestine when Julian Barnes sang its praises in the…
What is to be done about a world where everything is for sale?
Next time you read about an auctioneer’s gavel coming down on a $150 million painting bought by some flunkey representing…
A summer's social whirl, from Bette Midler to Satan
This summer brought highs and lows, sadness and laughter, some irritating, some exhilarating. I was fortunate to be uplifted by…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that Britons who went to Syria or Iraq to fight could be stripped…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, writing of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, said: ‘If we do not act…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, resisted calls for Parliament to be recalled to debate the crisis in Iraq. Philip Hammond,…
Portrait of the week
Home The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined 50 heads of state at the St Symphorien cemetery near Mons to…
David Frum’s diary: When Hamas shoots at Israel, they’re shooting at my kid
Wellington, Ontario A British visitor to this village might be disoriented by the flags. They look almost exactly like the…
What our leaders would say if they really cared about defending Britain's Jews
What our political leaders would say if they really cared about halting anti-Semitic attacks
Even Switzerland is turning lefty. Am I going to have to move to Wyoming?
Gstaad I am looking out of my window at the green landscape and forested mountains rising beyond, as peaceful a…
