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Sep 1, 2024, 4:47 PM

Rekindling the Vision

The appalling news that the IDF have recovered the bodies of six hostages, murdered by Hamas days before their discovery, once again underlines the nature of the terrorist opponents of Israel. However much one wants to believe dialogue is...

Jul 7, 2024, 11:28 PM

The Future May Not Be Rosy, But Red

Sir Keir Starmer’s landslide victory on the 5th of July may have been greeted by many as welcome news, but by others with a sense of trepidation. The turnout in the British 2024 General Election was not anything to...

May 22, 2024, 2:06 PM

‘This war, like the next war, is a war to end war’

The latest announcement from some of Europe’s enlightened powers is to recognize Palestinian statehood, whatever that means. The Republic of Ireland, Spain and Norway have thrown their “considerable” weight behind what over 140 UN member states have previously recognized as...

May 10, 2024, 8:02 PM

These are my People

Diaspora Jewry is going through an unprecedented trauma of questioning where they stand in the present Israel-Hamas war. Jews around the world have been subject to intimidation, accusations in being complicit in genocide and a whole host of antisemitic...

Mar 28, 2024, 5:08 PM

Israel’s Vietnam?

The war of attrition in Gaza has undoubtedly led to the degrading of Hamas but is unlikely, as many military commentators have observed, to completely destroy this terrorist organisation either in frustrating its capacity to launch attacks and/or reduce...

Feb 10, 2024, 2:26 PM

War Cannot be Sanitised

“War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it. The crueller it is the sooner it will be over.” W. T. Sherman I regard myself as being a reasonable guy, trying very hard to understand the arguments on...

Jan 13, 2024, 1:12 AM

Stand Firm: Am Yisrael Chai!

The South African government has submitted to the International Court of Justice in The Hague its highly selective evidence of Israel’s alleged genocide of Palestinians living in Gaza, and advocates for the State of Israel have responded by providing...

Dec 3, 2023, 7:21 PM

The Wavering West

Kamala Harris, the Vice-President of the United States, has urged the Israeli Government to be more stringent in avoiding civilian casualties in Gaza. The evidence from the IDF, supported by reliable independent sources, confirms Palestinians have been leafleted, giving fair...

Nov 25, 2023, 10:56 PM

The West must not fail Israel!

Who would have thought it! Hamas, using the agreement to pause fighting in order to facilitate the delivery of aid to Gaza and arrange for the exchange of hostages for convicted Palestinians, playing games to assert its control over...

Nov 21, 2023, 6:47 PM

The internet has proved a mixed blessing. As a way of communicating, almost instantaneously, with far distant family, friends and colleagues; as a resource of information with the proviso the provenance of the data needs to be tested for...

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Peter John Beyfus is an historian, published author, poet, and a person who prides himself on “thinking outside the box”. I have written many essays on Jewish themes, published in various journals, including ‘Wessex Jewish News’ and ‘Westminster Quarterly’, the magazine of Westminster Synagogue, London.

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