For the last three years Palestinian prisoners, mainly unlawfully detained in Israeli jails, have been engaged in a series of life threatening hunger strikes
Diplomacy does not take account of the historical background
Creeping annexation, ethnic cleansing and āthe politics of fragmentationā inflicted by criminals who strut the world stage and thumb their noses at…
The more contact one has with the modern state, even in those societies that have long constitutional traditions entrenching civil liberties, the…
My friend and former collaborator, Howard Friel, has written an intriguing book contrasting the worldviews and polemical styles of two Jewish American intellectuals…
There is a temptation to suggest that political life in Turkey and Egypt are both being victimized by a similar deepening of…
I spent last week at the United Nations, meeting with ambassadors of countries in the Middle East and presenting my final report…
There are two ways of responding to an invitation from an American president. I recall that when Amory Lovins, the guru of…
Recently I read On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, published in 2013 by Pluto Press here in London, and consisting…
Two apparently related and revealing incidents have turned public attention briefly back to Libya just after the second anniversary of the NATO…
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