Israel must come clean over its involvement in the Dubai murder plot
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's Foreign Minister, is being deeply disingenuous when he seeks to suggest that another foreign intelligence service was responsible for the murder of Hamas militant Mahmoud...
View ArticleIsrael's hardline foreign minister wins again
Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, looks often to outsiders to be making blunders, but he is hopelessly tied up trying to appease all parts of his unwieldy governing coalition. Want to know...
View ArticleIsrael's 'loyalty oath' sets a vile precedent
It's one of those head-in-hands, stomach churning moments, akin to when a lover finally shuts the door. You're left in shock, beliefs awry. Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition of the extremes is about to...
View ArticleThe rise of fanatical 'Israeli ayatollahs' is a godsend for anti-Zionists
Last week, Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman compared Turkey with Iran before the 1979 Islamic revolution. But if Mr Lieberman were to be honest, he'd recognise that the greater threat to...
View ArticleWilliam Hague could be right. So could Netanyahu. But they shouldn't be...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, has been watching the crowds at Tahrir Square – and they’re not reminding him of his Woodstock years. Mr Netanyahu struck a grim note at a meeting with...
View ArticleTzipi Livni: Israel's last chance for peace with the Palestinians
Herzliya, Israel "The Palestine Papers", the leaked documents published by The Guardian and al-Jazeera relating to the Israel-Palestine peace negotiations in 2007, portrayed the Palestinian...
View ArticleAnti-Semitism in the new Egypt: even the president refuses to say the word...
News that Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s Islamist president, has promised to uphold his country’s long-standing peace treaty with Israel has been widely welcomed. Revealingly, however, Mr Morsi refused to...
View ArticleIsrael-Gaza conflict: Netanyahu's strategy
Israeli military operations against Hamas are expanding. The IDF has now attacked hundreds of rocket launch platforms and many Hamas command facilities. Thousands of IDF infantry reserves have been...
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