Kylie Morris
‘Today America is coming to help’
US President Barack Obama authorizes targeted air strikes in Iraq to prevent an ‘act of genocide’ against some 40,000 religious minorities trapped in a remote mountain area.
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Kylie Morris
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Paul Mason
Why Gaza will prove to be a game-changing event
I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.
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Cathy Newman
Hugo Swire ‘discussed quitting’ over Gaza
How big a problem does David Cameron have on Gaza? Sayeeda Warsi hinted at the scale of it in her resignation letter.
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Paul Mason
In the midst of Gaza’s bloody ‘truce’
I’ve just seen what a ceasefire means, on a road east of Khan Younis. It means young men getting carried along dusty roads in blankets, with sniper wounds.
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Paul Mason
Inside the Gaza UN school ‘shelled by Israel’
I’ve just been to the UNRWA school in Jabalia, where 15 people were killed by what appears to be an Israeli shell as they were sheltering in a classroom.
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Michael Crick
Why Gaza has always been tricky for Middle East envoy Tony Blair
Tony Blair was in London today, addressing the Progress think tank 20 years after he became Labour leader. But weren’t there more pressing concerns in the Middle East?
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Paul Mason
Why Israel is losing the social media war over Gaza
For the first time in a major Arab-Israeli conflict, the world has access to non-traditional sources of reality such as Twitter – and it means Israel is losing the battle for hearts and minds.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Palestinians, Israelis and an eye for an eye: why it never stops
“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith The Lord.” It’s not often I’m moved to quote the New Testament but it seems appropriate here in the Holy Land where no-one takes any notice of it.
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Jonathan Miller
Enemies Cameron and Blair meet to talk peace (in the Middle East)
They were once the political world’s greatest rivals. Now, Tony Blair and David Cameron are to join the negotiating table for a different kind of peace.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum’s international eye on the year ahead
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
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Jon Snow
Syria debate: a dangerous moment in history
The stakes have never been higher, as congress starts one of the most contentious debates in modern world history – whether or not to strike Syria.
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Paul Mason
Carrie is back, but the west is over
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Syrian refugees admiring and baffled after UK’s ‘no war’ vote
Among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, there is admiration for the independence of British MPs – but also confusion over the west’s reluctance to act.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Egypt: a coup or the birth-pangs of true democracy?
Egypt ousts its first democratically elected president – but was it a coup or a revolution, and where did ex-President Morsi, now in military custody, go wrong?
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Jon Snow
New year, new world order?
2013 is likely to be lucky for some countries but filled with foreboding for others – will this be a year in which the world order takes another shunt?