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Obama now needs to focus on Israel

LONDON: There was no hesitation in pointing out the obvious loser from last weekend’s breakthrough deal between ... Published 01 Dec, 2013 08:52am

Kennedy’s memory and myth refuse to die

THESE days it is only the world’s grandparents who can tell you where they were when they heard John Fitzgerald... Published 23 Nov, 2013 07:13am

Failure poses a danger beyond Egypt

**LONDON: Even the most global events, those whose reverberations are felt far beyond their borders, are rooted in Updated 07 Jul, 2013 03:58am

When Mandela is gone, the world will feel colder

LONDON: The vultures are circling, said the family. Later they withdrew the charge, but who can blame the relatives,... Published 30 Jun, 2013 05:50am

Data collection by NSA damages Obama

LONDON: Among the guests at the fabled Bilderberg meeting, held this weekend just outside London, were the top brass... Published 09 Jun, 2013 10:53am

Funeral designed to elevate Thatcher above politics

LONDON: If it’s true that Margaret Thatcher’s name will be remembered long into the future, these will be among the pictures that will recall her memory. A coffin draped in the union flag, borne slowly by gun Published 19 Apr, 2013 01:13am

Obama must go to Israel with a message

LONDON: This should be a rare moment of hope. On Friday night, Israel got a new government and in a few days it will be treated to a US presidential visit, the first of Barack Obama’s second term. You’d think that, like Published 17 Mar, 2013 03:04am

Israel in danger of shift to far right after polls

LONDON: In a week when the dead number 60,000 in Syria — a figure considered an underestimate by the UN body that produced it — it can seem like displacement activity to speak of any other topic in the region. It is Syria, surely, that matters most, a sla Published 05 Jan, 2013 10:05pm

US constitution: a hurdle in the way of gun reform

LONDON: We watch their movies, we eat their fast food. Their culture has become global culture. So it always comes as a shock to realise how different Americans are from everyone else. The massacre in Newtown horrified even those who thought themselves in Published 22 Dec, 2012 09:04pm

Republicans face five stages of political grief

WASHINGTON: My election night was spent among the grieving. Most didn’t know they were going to a wake when they headed to the grand ballroom of the Boston Convention Centre on Tuesday night. On the contrary, Published 11 Nov, 2012 03:41am

Real Romney relaxed among the filthy rich

LONDON: If only the politicians would tell us what they really think, we say. If only they’d drop the soundbites and the focus-group-tested messaging and give it to us straight. Two politicians did just that this Published 23 Sep, 2012 04:44am

Games reveal another kind of Britain

THE finish line is in sight. After two weeks of exertion, of triumph and dejection, of glittering victory and head-down defeat that have been the focus not just of British attention but of the gaze of the entire world, the London Olympics of 2012 will soo Published 12 Aug, 2012 12:00am

A battle for the entire Middle East

IT looks a lot like the end. Just as viewers of a movie franchise know the formula so well, they can tell when the final reel is under way, so we’re getting used to the way Arab revolutions unfold — and sense that the signs Published 23 Jul, 2012 12:01am

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