This Christmas, it is hard to watch as our ancestral lands fragment
Israelis, Palestinians, Ukrainians and Armenians around the world have had to witness horrifying events from afar.
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Israelis and Palestinians have been taken back to the traumas of 1948
Reporting from the front line in Gaza, I have seen the destruction wrought on all sides by this long conflict.
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Letter from Israel: “Bodies are piling up on three fronts”
I was among the first journalists allowed into Kfar Azza, one of the kibbutz communities that suffered the worst massacres.
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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 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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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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The bonfire of the Middle East
Jeremy Bowen’s personal history shows how hopes of peace failed and the region entered a new era of instability.
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Israel’s double standard on flag-waving is a risk to democracy
An annual Israeli nationalist march is going ahead. Compare that with how its authorities react to Palestinian flags.
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