They are still digging up the dead in Lebanon. The death toll as I write has now reached 1,300. Most were innocent civilians murdered in a senseless protracted conflict that was cheered on by the United
Americans are constantly told that they have to defend themselves against people who “hate them”, but without understanding why they are hated. Is the cause our secular democracy? Our appetite for
JEDDAH, 18 August 2006 — It is always satisfying to hear that someone I have written about, who was stranded somewhere, is now safely back in the Philippines. This happened this week when I received
Perhaps it is time if not to re-write the Balfour Declaration, at least to re-direct it, back to Europe from whence most Jewish settlers in Israel have come from. The animosity that is making
The bombing of a Tamil school by government aircraft and the apparent death of 61 children and the wounding of hundreds more, may now prove to be a tipping point in the confrontation between the Tamil
There was nothing new about the broad objective behind Israel’s war on Lebanon: Through the destruction of Hezbollah it was to wreak fundamental change in a strategic, political and military environment
As we approach the fifth official anniversary of the "war on terror", the foiled UK "terror plot" has neatly provided George W Bush, the "leader of the free world", with a chance
Sir Anthony Robert Eden, prime minister of Britain in the early second half of the twentieth century, decided to occupy Egypt in order to teach President Nasser a lesson for nationalizing the Suez
