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Do Hamas’s supporters in the West know what this organisation really stands for? The reality is that Hamas is no...
If Iran steps in, the worst is still to come We can’t say yet if the latest fighting between Israel...
There has been a huge amount of comment in recent days on the latest round of exchanges between Israel and...
I was born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in Jerusalem and lived in a UN refugee camp from 1966 until...
‘Who do you think you are — Stirling Moss?’ a genially menacing traffic cop would ask a hapless motorway transgressor....
Did you know that for the past three weeks Turkey has been engaged in a military assault on Iraqi Kurdistan?...
Vaccine refusenik’ is the latest catchphrase used to disparage anyone unwilling — for whatever reason — to roll up their...
Iran has provided rockets and technology enabling Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to bombard Israeli cities, in keeping with...
Naturally, the elites blame the victim When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, the much-maligned Neville Chamberlain would not have...
There is an oft quoted principle stated before discussing events in the Middle East: ‘It’s complicated’. Yet the quality of...
