Israel
Corruption affects everything in Palestine – even vaccines
Visit certain parts of the West Bank and you’ll encounter mansions owned by senior officials in the Palestinian Authority (PA).…
The moral debate over Covid jabs for children
The ethics of Covid jabs for children
Iranians don’t hate Israel
The decades since the Islamic revolution have weighed heavy on the people of Iran. Living in fear, under extreme levels…
Revealed: how Mossad eliminated Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
The Mossad is not known for its touchy-feely approach. Whether it was the kidnap of Adolf Eichmann in the sixties,…
Are there any mountains left unclimbed?
Bad service Economic growth fell by 2.6% in November, the month of the second lockdown, compared with falls of 7.3%…
How effective has the Covid vaccine been in Israel?
The world’s eyes are on Israel at the moment, as the country continues its phenomenally fast roll-out of the Pfizer…
How Netanyahu exploits Israel’s vaccine success
The vaccine has arrived at just the right time for the Israeli PM
What Amnesty International gets wrong about Israel's vaccine programme
Israel’s remarkable vaccine rollout has been deservedly praised. But not everyone is full of goodwill. Depressingly and inevitably, commentators and human…
How Israel became a world leader in vaccination
On a cold night three days before the end of the 2020 I drove down to Jerusalem’s Pais Arena. The…
A Sudan-Israel peace deal could be Trump's crowning achievement
Twitter is not always kind to the Jewish state. But the peace accord between Israel, UAE and Bahrain that was…
Is AppleTV's Tehran the new Fauda?
If you love Fauda — and of course you do — you’re in for a long wait for season four,…
Pompeo: Biden will give ‘hundreds of billions of dollars to a theocratic, corrupt regime’
Washington DC Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Monday that if Joe Biden wins the November elections, an incoming…
Does Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?
Should Donald Trump be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? So far the President has notched up two nominations in a…
What Bahrain’s deal with Israel really means
On September 15, representatives from the oil-rich Kingdom of Bahrain will meet Israeli leaders at the White House to sign…
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…
The Foreign Office has lost the plot in the Middle East
The Foreign Office has lost the plot
Pompeo is right on Iran sanctions
The halls of the UN are a habitual stage for empty gestures and vaporous rhetoric, but last Friday’s Security Council…
Have Arab nations forgotten about Palestine by accepting Israel?
The Palestinians are entering one of the most precarious periods in their nation’s history. The normalisation of relations between Israel…
The UAE-Israel deal is a triumph of Trump’s personal diplomacy
The American-brokered opening of full relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is a rare outbreak of peace and…
Netflix’s Caliphate is all too frighteningly plausible
Sweden is now properly celebrated as the Land that Called Coronavirus Correctly. But in the distant past, those with long…
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…
Israel’s antibody breakthrough
The Israeli government is reporting this morning that the country’s Institute for Biological Research has made a breakthrough in the…
The UN should be ashamed of its anti-Israel boycott list
I knew if we waited long enough, the United Nations would make itself useful. The Office of the High Commissioner…
Quassem Soleimani’s terror lives on for Israelis
Quassem Soleimani is dead but in Israel fear of his warped legacy lives on. The Iranian general was key to…
Taking out Soleimani is like stepping on a landmine to cure a headache
Talleyrand once commented that Napoleon’s execution of the Duke of Enghien in 1804 was worse than a crime. It was…
