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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Inside Israel’s intelligence fiasco
Security failures allowed Hamas to launch its catastrophic attack on 7 October. Can the Israeli leadership overcome its fatal complacency?
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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 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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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 strange discord of being British and Jewish
Judaism in this country is a mirror of society, reflecting our gratitude, our anxiety and – sometimes – our humour.
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War in Israel and Palestine: could it spread?
A special episode of the New Statesman podcast
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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The lessons of Algiers
Understanding Hamas’s attack as a barbarous act outside of history won’t help Israel in Gaza.
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s war test
It took a devastating attack to expose the full extent of the prime minister’s failures. What happens next?
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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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Israel has magnified the US’s political dysfunction
Confronted with a grave security crisis, the House of Representatives is effectively paralysed.
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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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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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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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What the West got wrong about Iran
The country’s role in the Middle East has been long ignored – and Israel is paying the price.
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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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Lisa Nandy puts a positive spin on demotion
“I’ve gone from levelling up the country to levelling up the world,” the shadow cabinet minister told a fringe meeting.
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