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Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World

Blair’s legacy in Middle East is peace poor

Published by The Sun (29th May, 2015) Once he promised to transform Britain. Instead Tony Blair became a despised figure around the world. And now what is probably the […]

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Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World

Israel sends commandos into Gaza after 50 die in air strikes

Published by The Daily Mail (17th July, 2014) Israel sent ground forces into Gaza yesterday for the first time in its latest offensive, launching an amphibious assault with […]

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Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World

So familiar, so forlorn and so fantastically self-defeating

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th July,2014) Olga Neiman was asleep when the missile struck shortly after 9pm, exhausted by the daily exertions of looking after her […]

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Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World

Summer on a kibbutz as Sharon dragged Israel into a quagmire

Published in The Independent (January 13th, 2014) In 1982, facing the long summer of a second-year student in the days of student grants, I followed a friend – […]

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Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World

Ariel Sharon, the Butcher of Beirut turned peacemaker, dies at the age of 85

Published in The Mail on Sunday (January 12th, 2014) Ariel Sharon, the Israeli general and former prime minister who proved such a controversial figure across the Middle East […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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