Whether Israel’s military campaign in Gaza makes the country any safer in the long term or whether it simply will be seen as a punitive revenge mission in response to Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7 last year that killed more than 1200 Israelis and foreign nationals will be determined by what follows the fighting […]
Read MoreIn complicit Gaza, face of evil that of doctor and his son
When my phone buzzed last Saturday evening, I peered down and saw a mate had sent a short video clip of a woman whose face was vaguely familiar. She was embracing an older man. In a hospital maybe? Long dark hair. An open smile. Surely not – is that, is she? Noa’s ALIVE? I wrote […]
Read MoreHOSTAGE HORRORS IGNORED AS WORLD TURNS A BLIND EYE
Uriel Baruch was taken hostage from the Nova music festival on October 7. He was 35, had a wife, Rachel, and two little boys. He’s dead. His family was informed a few days ago that, 155 days after Uriel was dragged into captivity, only his body is now being held hostage by Hamas, somewhere in […]
Read MoreWhat’s next in Middle East? Consider these six factors
What’s next in Middle East? Consider these six factors Sunday, January 7, is three months since Hamas’s terrorist attack in southern Israel, where more than 1500 jihadists crossed over from Gaza on the morning of a Jewish religious holiday, killed 1200 people, raping and torturing many, and taking several hundred hostages. The attack aimed to […]
Read MoreManiacal hatred of Jews festers in cocoon of denial
In the hazy, floating, no-man’s land between Christmas Day and the new year, I read two books: one by a former journalist at this newspaper, Dan Box, called The Man Who Wasn’t There. I highly recommend it. The other, by bestselling children’s author Alex Ryvchin, isn’t for kids, though perhaps in hindsight a modified version […]
Read MoreIsrael haters aren’t ‘cool’, they are mostly just plain ignorant
By Gemma Tognini Belal was barely out of his teens when he met his first Israeli Jew. He’s sitting in an old plastic chair in the centre of a dusty, shaded courtyard at a community centre in the West Bank, not far from the Gush Etzion interchange. The sounds of an early Israeli summer and […]
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