Published by The Daily Mail (October 10th, 2023) As I entered the Erez crossing point from Israel into the Gaza Strip, my Israeli-Arab friend asked me to bring […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
This is Israel’s 9/11
Published by The i paper (9th October, 2023) The symbolism could not be starker: young people at a rave for peace in the desert, their happiness and spirit […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / Technology / World
How digital dissidents are defying the despots
Published by UnHerd (25th May, 2018) When Ahmad Abu Artema was a child, his parents separated and his mother ended up living just over the Egyptian border with […]
Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
A wounded father, his missing son and a slingshot army locked in war without end
Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th May, 2018) I met Raed Selawy as he lurched over the bumpy terrain on crutches with two freshly bandaged bullet wounds […]
Aid / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Revealed: terror training base Israel claims was built by British aid
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th August, 2016) A training base built by an Islamist terrorist group behind suicide bombings and mass shootings was allegedly funded by […]
Aid / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
Cash for terror: how the Palestinian Authority duped British backers
Published by The Jewish Chronicle (31st March, 2016) Ahmad Musa looks like a character in a gangster movie with his black leather jacket, slicked back hair and self-possessed […]
Aid / Europe / European Union / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / World
How British aid ends up funding terrorists
Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th March, 2015) Ahmad Musa sits beside me, a convicted double murderer sentenced to life in prison. As we talk, I ask […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Africa / Congo / Rwanda
Gaza grabs the headlines as Congo once more descends into chaos
Published in The Observer (November 25th, 2012) Once again, the apparently insoluble struggle between Israel and Palestine has flared up before flickering into uneasy standoff. As usual, world […]