David Hirst's account of the Arab-Israeli conflict, The Gun and the Olive Branch, caused a storm 25 years ago. In this edited extract from his new and updated edition he offers a personal and highly controversial view of the current crisis in the Middle East
Baruch Kimmerling / New Left Review Baruch Kimmerling on Ran Edelist, Ehud Barak: Fighting the Demons. Israel’s killer general and his legacy, as Camp David morphs into the Road Map.
Ed O'Loughlin / The Age Jerusalem is where foreign policies usually come to die, but Peter Costello has seized this blasted diplomatic earth as fertile ground for his own expansion out of the Treasury.
David Teather / The Guardian The United States last night vetoed a United Nations resolution demanding that Israel neither harm nor expel the Palestinian authority president, Yasser Arafat.
Chris McGreal / The Guardian Even Israel's pervasive intelligence services are uncertain whether the Infants Underground and its allies are fringe groups of extremist settlers or the stirrings of a Jewish-style Hamas.
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