June 6, 2013
7:15 pm

D-Day: Day of Co-operation

Today is the anniversary of D-Day for Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of Northwest Europe in 1944. There are a lot of reasons to remember D-Day. Today I choose to......

June 5, 2013
8:17 pm

The Beast Unleashed: Hizballah and Quds Force celebrate victory in Syria

Today is a big day. A banner day. A red-letter day. It is a day when all the clichés can be pulled out of the cupboard. Celebrating the day is......

May 12, 2013
9:15 pm

He’s not a wise fool. Hawking is a foolish savant.

I didn't play Sun City, not that anybody asked me. I didn't drink Paarl wine. I didn't eat Cape apples. I avoided......

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May 11, 2013
4:57 pm

Palestine Isn’t a State. Neither is Google.

We created Palestine, we British. A. J. Balfour famously wrote, 'His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people'. It wasn't......

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April 8, 2013
8:41 pm

Margaret Thatcher, Patron Saint of Disruption

Opinion on Baroness Thatcher was undivided when I came to the UK in the mid-90s. Among people my own age she was considered more evil than the most evil......

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April 8, 2013
4:40 pm

Anonymous, Defend Your Brand!

You can't......

March 18, 2013
9:28 pm

Saddam Hussein: My Part in His Downfall

More than a year after 'winning' the Iraq......

March 15, 2013
2:04 am

Lord Ahmed needs to go down to the mosque and apologise.

There is......

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March 7, 2013
2:48 am

Drones in America’s Dining Rooms

Sen. Rand Paul blasted Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that drone strikes could be......

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November 21, 2012
7:18 pm

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Ride Again in Tel Aviv

Early this afternoon, on reading on Lyse Doucet's Twitter feed that Hamas had owned up to today's bus bombing, I assessed that Hamas was making......

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November 21, 2012
2:44 pm

Hamas goes to war

The bitter joke going around Twitter this morning is that Israel didn't invade Gaza, Hamas invaded Israel. It has been clear since the outset of the current conflict between Israel......

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November 20, 2012
12:04 am

Hamas: Crazy or crazy like a fox?

Until last week I assessed Hamas to be one of the most effective insurgencies currently operating. Apart from Hizballah it is difficult to think of one more effective. The......

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November 18, 2012
2:05 am

The German philosopher and the Gaza Strip

Gaza and Clausewitz came together on Friday morning in my seminar room. This isn't remarkable. I teach a lot of Carl von Clausewitz because that......

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November 7, 2012
11:56 am

Israel needed Obama to lose? Now there’s a swing State!

I was at a briefing by General Itzik Mordechai in Jerusalem once, back when he was Officer Commanding IDF Northern Command. Somebody asked him, from out of a crowd......

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November 6, 2012
12:34 am

President Obama’s most important speech, ever

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, after Mitt Romney phones up to concede, Barack Obama will have to make the speech of his life. Like ...

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