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Martin Sieff

Apr 6, 2021, 5:27 AM

The Greatest Jewish Writer You Never Heard Of

The Greatest Jewish Writer You Never Heard Of By Martin Sieff Nearly 40 years now since I discovered the hilarious, joyous, subversive, vicious and wise books of Stefan Heym: If you hate Nazis, Communism, Anti-Semites, Bigots, Censorship and Big Bullies of...

Apr 4, 2021, 8:54 PM

An Irish Epikioros

"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows." I have always been notoriously careless whether any balances were ever correct and I am certainly...

About Me

Martin Sieff has a BA, MA Oxford Univeristy, Postgraduate Middle East Studies, London School of Economics, and two years as an entry-level researcher/writer Jerusalem Post, 1977-79. Spent five years covering Northern Ireland civil war in Belfast 1980-85. Former speechwriter, Israel ambassador to UN Benjamin Netanyahu, 1986-99. Covered Israel-Arab peace process, Iran-Iraq War and Collapse of Soviet Union for The Washington Times, 1986-1999, Chief News Analyst and Managing Editor, International affairs, United Press International. Lots more. Books include "Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East" now in the second edition. Current contributor to Strategic Culture Foundation web platform, Moscow. Currently completing book profiling most successful and unlikely rescuers of populations from the Holocaust and other genocides.