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The perils of wishful thinking on the Middle East

Posted on 10 January 2012 by

As every sensible person knows, a problem cannot be solved or even tackled unless and until the problem itself is acknowledged.  Thus the Middle East crisis, in particular the war between the Arabs and the Israelis, lurches on endlessly. Evelyn … Continue reading →

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First the bad news and then more bad news

Posted on 2 January 2012 by

Several unhappy news items caught my eye over the last day to start off 2012 on the left foot. In case you thought the war with Hamas had quietened down in the south over the last few months you would … Continue reading →

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What’s happening in Egypt?

Posted on 25 November 2011 by

It seems that every day brings contradictory news to the day before and it’s very hard to keep track of who is in power, who is in jail, who is demonstrating and who is keeping his head down. In the … Continue reading →

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How anti-Semitism prevents peace

Posted on 31 August 2011 by

Via Jewish Ideas Daily, I found this rather depressing but in-depth report on the Middle East Quarterly entitled “How anti-Semitism prevents peace”, by David Patterson, about whom: David Patterson is Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust studies at the University of … Continue reading →

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The Egyptian Spring – more like Winter

Posted on 10 July 2011 by

Continuing on from previous articles on the failure of the Egyptian Spring to bring much-hoped for democratic reforms and genuine freedom, reports have been emerging of “A great darkness in Egypt” – and not the Biblical kind either. This article … Continue reading →

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More on the Egyptian “spring”

Posted on 6 May 2011 by

Continuing on from my post about the Egyptian “Spring” a little over a month ago, that revolution that everyone in the West was raving about and yet was starting to prove a little sour to Israelis, it appears that our … Continue reading →

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