Reporting independently from the front lines of war is an increasingly rare engagement for journalists working for major international media outlets. From…
Barack Obama, they say, did not get on well with Bibi Netanyahu when he met him in Jerusalem before the American elections.…
The "normality" of war, part two. We had a great storm in Beirut this week, thunder-cracks like gunfire, great green waves crashing…
It would have helped if Obama had the courage to talk about what everyone in the Middle East was talking about. No,…
It’s a wrap, a doddle, an Israeli ceasefire just in time for Barack Obama to have a squeaky-clean inauguration with all the…
If reporting is, as I suspect, a record of mankind’s folly, then the end of 2008 is proving my point. Let’s kick…
When it comes to Palestine and Israel, the US simply doesn’t get it. Biden and Palin hid like rabbits from the centre…
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If Obama is elected he will be enmeshed in the Middle East tragedy and forced to take sides. I was in…
Three bodies lie beside a Baghdad street on a blindingly hot day. The one on the right is dressed in a…
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