PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 11 MARCH 2024 National elections were held in Iran on March 1. The results were underwhelming. It took three days for the electoral authorities to coun...
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PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 4 MARCH 2024 The Houthis – whose flag proclaims, among other things, “Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews” – operate from the ch...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-houthis-holding-world-to-ransom.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 26 FEBRUARY 2024 Hamas seems intent on building up a fighting force inside Lebanon. Early last December news emerged of a large-scale recruitment drive...
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PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 19 FEBRUARY 2024 The term “total victory” has been on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lips a great deal recently. It has abou...
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PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 13 FEBRUARY 2024 One-time US President Harry S Truman kept a slogan on his desk: “The buck stops here”. The idea was to remind himself da...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2024/02/unrwa-chief-should-resign.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 7 FEBRUARY 2024 On January 29, out of the blue, Britain’s foreign minister Lord Cameron declared that because Palestinians needed to se...
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PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 30 JANUARY 2024: Christmas and the New Year celebrations had come and gone, and still the phone lines between US President Joe Biden an...
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PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 22 JANUARY 2024 On January 14 Euronews, the multi-lingual European TV and online news network, published a wide-ranging survey of where many of the world�...
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THIS LETTER APPEARS IN THE UK'S DAILY TELEGRAPH, 16 JANUARY 2024 SIR – South Africa has charged Israel in the International Court of Justice with genocide, and asks the court, as an int...
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PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 16 JANUARY 2024 Iran's Supreme Leader meets the head of Hezbollah A war with Israel is the last th...
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PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 10 JANUARY 2023 Ever since Recep Tayyip Erdogan gained power as Turkey’s prime minister in 2003, Turco-Israeli relations have been on a se...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2024/01/erdogan-back-to-square-one.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 3 JANUARY 2023 On December 4, Time magazine published an article under the title “It’s time to scrap the Abraham Accords”. The aut...
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PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 27 DECEMBER 2023 In his much-trumpeted speech on November 3, Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, predictably praised Hamas’s October 7 invas...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2023/12/is-israel-hezbollah-war-inevitable.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 18 DECEMBER 2023 The leaders of Hamas responsible for the pogrom of October 7 will be hunted down and eliminated, even if it takes years On...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2023/12/whats-in-store-for-hamas-and-its-leaders.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM REPORT, ISSUE DATED 25 DECEMBER 2023 Stated briefly, Israel’s war aims as articulated by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, government mini...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-governance-of-post-war-gaza.html
PUBLISHED IN JERUSALEM POST, 11 DECEMBER 2023 On December 5 UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, wrote to the 15 members of the Security Council invoking Article 99 of th...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2023/12/un-chief-guterres-right-problem-wrong.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 5 DECEMBER 2023 The events of October 7 have proved too flagrant to be ignored by the body that is supposed to be the world’s watchdog on protecting and ...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2023/12/taking-hostages-is-war-crime.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 30 NOVEMBER 2023 In the early days of November a considerable amount of journalistic ink was spilled countering a report that appeared on sev...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-houthis-declare-war-on-israel.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 23 NOVEMBER 2023 “We don’t do enemies,” a one-time foreign minister of Qatar once said. “We talk to everyone.” This is the policy pursued wi...
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PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM REPORT, ISSUE DATED 27 NOVEMBER 2023 Speaking in Tel Aviv towards the end of his one-day visit to the Middle East on October 18, US President Joe ...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2023/11/israels-war-lessons-from-past.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 16 NOVEMBER 2023 November 11 is known in Britain as Armistice Day. A two-minute silence is observed nationally to commemorate the end of ...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2023/11/who-masterminds-britains-anti-israel.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 7 NOVEMBER 2023 A much-trumpeted speech on November 3 by Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was, in the event, rather less than overwhelmin...
http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2023/11/lebanon-why-no-second-front.html
PUBLISHED IN THE JERUSALEM POST, 31 OCTOBER 2023 From October 17-19 the Energy Intelligence Forum held a three-day conference in the heart of London. The agenda –“...
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THIS LETTER APPEARS IN THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, 29 OCTOBER 2023 Sir May I make two points to amplify your Editorial Comment (“The UN should not be condemning Israel”, 26 October). First,...
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PUBLISHED IN THE NEW ISSUE OF THE JERUSALEM REPORT, DATED 6 NOVEMBER 2023 On 12 October two British Israelis whose families are being held hostage in Gaza attended a media conference in Lon...
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