Israel-Palestine: The shame we share

By now the glorious and tragic history of the Jewish people ought to have led to greater sympathy with others facing similar plights.

The White House’s distorting mirror

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.”

United Nations and Palestine: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”

“For too long the UN has been unfairly biased in favour of the Palestinian Authority to the detriment of our allies in Israel.”

2017 – a year of uncertainty

There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.

Israel’s new commandment: Thou shalt not love thy neighbour

A brilliant article by the Israeli journalist Aluf Benn, editor-in-chief of the national daily Haaretz, deserves to be widely read.

Water as a weapon of mass destruction

More water falls on the West Bank annually than on London. Not many people know that. Why, then, are Palestinians desperately short of water?