Letter from Gaza: “What we have witnessed has never been seen before”
I have seen children writing their names on the palms of their hands. When they die, they want people to…
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PMQs today: Keir Starmer reaches a careful balance on Israel
The Labour leader is seeking to draw attention to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza without reopening old divides.
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Letter of the week: Changing the future in the Middle East
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The Middle East on the brink
This is a perilous moment for the world. Western leaders must be clear-eyed about the potential scale of this conflict.
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The EU is the “illusory giant” of geopolitics
Despite its wealth and ambition, the European Union is limited as an actor in the great conflicts of our time.
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Sinn Féin sees false equivalence in Palestine
Northern Ireland is nothing like Gaza. If the party wins power it will have to learn that.
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Ahron Bregman: “The question is whether Israel actually wants to topple Hamas”
The Middle East security scholar on the imminent ground invasion of Gaza.
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This is no time for politics, says Israeli hostages’ daughter
Sharone Lifschitz’s parents are believed to have been abducted by Hamas. She wants them saved.
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The revenge of history
How Israel forgot the lessons of the Yom Kippur War.
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Israel, Gaza and a war without limit
The response to Hamas will devastate the Strip, upend the balance of power in the Middle East and define the…
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The Hamas attack was driven by a brutal ideology
The atrocities committed against Israeli civilians have roots in the same fanaticism activists face in Iran.
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A new age of volatility
Hamas’ recent brutal attack on Israel reconfirms that the post-Cold War era of Western triumphalism is over.
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Edward Luttwak: “The Israelis are bombing to kill Hamas, not civilians”
The author and strategist on how militants were able to invade, and how Israel responds.
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