Charles Glass was ABC News Chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993. He wrote Tribes with Flags and Money for Old Rope (both Picador books).
Paris. Voices in Israel, now backed with the forceful intervention of President George Bush, are demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon…
Paris. India and Pakistan are at war. A million troops stand mobilised on either side of the 1972 Line of Control that…
The old fox escaped the hencoop again. For almost two weeks, Yasser Arafat has paraded through the ravaged streets of the West…
Paris. The return of Secretary of State Colin Powell to Israel has revived language that, until now, the Bush administration has avoided:…
The first thing they do is cover your eyes. They make you strip to make sure you’re not carrying anything. They replace…
The first thing they do is cover your eyes. They make you strip to make sure you’re not carrying anything. They replace…
Another Palestinian has killed himself in Jerusalem. He was walking towards the David Citadel Hotel in King David Street, where two Israeli…
vast American aid was news, yet it never made the news, although no one at ABC News at the time criticised the…
Charles Glass Most afternoons, the boys head from their schools down to the edge of town where Israeli tanks and soldiers are…
Charles Glass The London media world is under fire and taking shelter. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s head flack, Alistair Campbell, has challenged…
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