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Mar 25, 2014, 10:14 PM

To be belligerent

Words like belligerent or belligerency or, to target Israel, “belligerent occupation” are easily thrown around. We can learn something from events of recent months in the Far East. The Chinese, we were informed initially, were becoming belligerent and aggressive...

Nov 30, 2013, 7:58 PM

Iran and the bomb

It was not so much the confusion about the deal – that it’s not clear if Iran has given up on the bomb or, as David Horowitz says, that the U.S. has let Iran off the hook. It’s that cheerful...

Nov 21, 2013, 7:54 PM

A bad year for presidents: The Kennedy assassination

I slept well that night in my bedroom furnished in 19th Century style in the old French colonial hotel in Saigon. It had been a long and tiring previous day reporting on the war in the Delta of South...

Mar 25, 2012, 4:33 PM

By David Lachlan Shaw Jerusalem – The new American Jewish leftist liberal figure, Peter Beinart, seems not to have properly considered Jewish fundamental objections to boycotting Jews, whether academics, artists, or Jews who make things to export from West Bank...

Mar 14, 2012, 7:44 PM

Advice from Churchill

Jerusalem – There’s a Churchill Society in Israel now whose founder Russell Rothstein believes that Churchill’s views and experience don’t exert enough influence here in Israel He considers that Israel has a lot to learn...

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David Shaw was a correspondent in South East Asia and China and wrote for British and Australian papers from Jerusalem.