Jared Kushner’s proposal for Palestine would strip the people of all their dignity
Speaking with Palestinians who still hold the keys to homes they fled decades ago
Does anyone care?
A veiled attempt to displace tens of thousands of refugees – but even that won’t help the regime win the war
Once it was the State Department which called for ‘restraint on all sides’ – usually when the Israelis were invading or bombing Lebanon or Gaza – but now it’s the Kremlin which calls for ‘restraint’ between Israel and Iran. Putin is fast becoming a friend to all
If we can now accept a massacre on this scale, how far can our immune system go in the days and weeks and months to come?
In the West, it’s easy to concentrate on each daily drama about the Middle East and forget the world in which the real people of the region live
Having withdrawn America from the Iran nuclear deal with such capriciousness, the US president has demonstrated that – like the late Libyan leader – he is totally divorced from reality
One doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack
Not a soul today is mentioning the terrible war fought between 1980 and 1988, which was fought with our total acquiescence. It’s almost an ‘exclusive’ to mention the conflict at all, so religiously have we forgotten it
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