Palestine: Information with Provenance
Palestine: Information with Provenance
#99939 Blair's latest victory
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 19 May 1999
#100121 Israel leaves its Vietnam
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 24 May 2000
#4607 Norman Finkelstein's book shows him as a Jew who doesn't like Jews
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 14 July 2000
Novick is just as appalled by Holocaust theme parks and Auschwitz tourism as
Finkelstein. But there’s a crucial difference - which explains why Novick’s
book was welcomed for posing some awkward but necessary questions, while
Finkelstein’s has bee ...
#100397 Doves must be hawks
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 11 October 2000
#100445 Why Israel's peaceniks feel betrayed
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 14 October 2000
#100474 Common ground
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 18 October 2000
#210 Israel's Arabs fight back
by Jonathan Freedland in The Tablet, 28 October 2000
Instead the answer is clear. Israel has to end the 52 years of appalling discrimination it has meted out to its own countrymen. For too long it has treated the Palestinians within its own borders as second-class citizens. When Arabs build new village ...
#37573 Israel's dark hour
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 7 February 2001
It's as shocking as if Jean-Marie Le Pen had become president of France, or Ian Paisley ruled over Northern Ireland. Last night Israel, by a massive landslide, turned to a man who has spent two decades as an international byword for extremism - a glo ...
#100856 Killers and losers
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 28 March 2001
#101080 Clerics in secret Middle East talks
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 4 July 2001
#101082 Holy peaceniks
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 4 July 2001
#101359 A socialism of fools
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 17 October 2001
#101430 At last Israel has a man with a plan
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 6 November 2001
#101473 Hold their feet to the fire, US envoys told
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 29 November 2001
#101488 'I used to be a terrorist'
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 4 December 2001
#101493 Sharon's fantasy
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 5 December 2001
#101628 Sharon's year of failure
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 6 February 2002
#101705 Israel's army of peace
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 6 March 2002
#102325 Firing on our friends
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 10 July 2002
#102442 Israel set on tragic path, says chief rabbi
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 27 August 2002
#102444 Prophet of hope
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 27 August 2002
#102641 For Israelis - and Jews everywhere - fear is now international
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 29 November 2002
#1514 At last, a fresh idea: The Middle East conflict has become a byword for paralysis. But a new plan offers both sides a way forward
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 15 January 2003
First it discusses the discredited London "peace conference", and then goes on to discuss a "protectorate" idea.
"The London group's proposal - drawn up by the Middle East Policy Initiative Forum and authored by international relations specialist ...
#102731 At last, a fresh idea
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 15 January 2003
#102749 The war within
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 28 January 2003
#1733 A British Rx for the Labor Party
by Jonathan Freedland in Ha'aretz, 17 February 2003
First, Israeli Labor must realize that its problem is not just politics but demographics. In Britain, Labour was forced to accept that the social makeup of the country had changed: the industrial working-classes were now a shrinking minority, not the ...
#1976 Violence in the shadows: What impact will the coming war in Iraq have on the long-running one between Israel and Palestine?
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 12 March 2003
While the world's attention is fixated on the war in Iraq many horrible things continue to happen in Israel/Palestine.
JF asks: "So what's been going in this most wearily protracted of conflicts while the world's been looking the other way? And what ...
#2358 Force is not enough
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 9 April 2003
George Bush praised the Belfast peace process yesterday, even as he tramples on its lessons across the globe.
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So the president seizes on the welcome US and British troops are now receiving in Iraq, as if that augurs an amicable, long-term relat ...
#2568 Peace among Palestinians is the first step on the road
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 26 April 2003
“The latest Washington mutterings, for example, suggest there may be a new hurdle placed before US publication of the road map. Not only will the Palestinians have to ratify their new cabinet, hints one US administration source, they might have to is ...
#2713 That is a racist slur
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 7 May 2003
Freedland continues to criticize Dalyell for daring to question the motives of the people surrounding Blair. ...
#4255 Enough of war, enough of bloodshed. Enough
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 13 September 2003
Subtitle: Israelis and Palestinians are ready to do a peace deal - what a pity their leaders are not.
"No wonder both sides are weighed down with depression. That much was clear at this week's Middle East editors' dialogue, a meeting of 10 Israeli ...
#4416 Impotence of power
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 8 October 2003
Subtitle: Outsiders see Israel's raid on Syria as aggression. To Israelis, it was the act of a nation driven half-mad with grief
»There is a rather big difference, of course. This time it was Israel that launched the daring, unexpected raid on Syria ...
#4611 The trailblazer
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 31 October 2003
Jews could not become MPs until 1858 and - the baptised Disraeli aside - did not appear on the Tory benches till the 1950s. Today, however, Michael Howard is poised to become the first Jewish leader of any major party. Jonathan Freedland applauds the ...
#4625 Seize the moment
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 5 November 2003
»And what exactly are they all supporting? Geneva is not a revolutionary document. It merely takes the solution most assume to be the only one possible - partition of Palestine into two states, one for each people - and spells out the details. But, a ...
#6317 Spain got the point
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 18 March 2004
By defaming the Spanish while Madrid weeps, the Bushites display a sneaking contempt for democracy. ...
#6454 Why Israel killed Yassin
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 24 March 2004
Soft explanation/justification for the assassination of Sheik Yassin. Presents the Israeli arguments for the assassination.
»Will any of this work? I doubt it. Israelis may feel better leaving Gaza having crushed the enemy (though heaven know ...
#6752 Sharon's triumph is Blair's defeat: By backing Israel's land grab, Bush has humiliated the prime minister
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 16 April 2004
»That's why Sharon looked fit to burst with pride at the White House podium on Wednesday. From his point of view, he had just shaken hands on a great deal. Gaza is a burden rather than an asset, a wretched place seething with poverty and violence, an ...
#103451 Sharon's triumph is Blair's defeat
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 16 April 2004
#7034 By Sharon's standards
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 5 May 2004
»I'm not used to feeling sympathy for Ariel Sharon, but I confess to a twinge this week. For Sharon is the latest victim of the Israeli far right. That sounds funny, I know: for decades, Sharon has been the spiritual leader of the Israeli far right. ...
#7249 Through the heart
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 26 May 2004
»What's happening is not just the biggest change to the city's map since 1967 - and the first time Jerusalem has been walled in since 1535. It also represents what could prove a fatal blow to the only vision of Middle East peace that enjoys global ap ...
#7294 A gift of dust and bones
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 2 June 2004
»Does this mean Sharon is genuine about pulling out of Gaza? Those around him insist he is. One blue-tongued member of his inner circle told me last week that Sharon "wants to get the fuck out of Gaza – with all his heart. He needs it the ...
#7619 The west's Arab racket
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 30 June 2004
One does not have to be a placard-waving anti-imperialist to note that for nearly a century the Arab world has been on the receiving end of constant western meddling. If they have not got on with choosing their own governments, that's partly because ...
#7639 Battle lines
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 1 July 2004
»There are few conflicts more inflammatory than the one that pits Israelis against Palestinians. It follows that there are few areas of media coverage more sensitive than the Middle East. And perhaps it follows again that, within that fevered a ...
#7926 Ariel views
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 29 July 2004
»Gerald Kaufman had better get his tuxedo to the dry-cleaners. He could be about to get an unexpected black-tie invitation - to the Israeli embassy. Kaufman wouldn't expect to be on Israel's social radar. As a vituperative critic of the country ...
#8224 Hooked on winning
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 25 August 2004
Sharon knows it's time to cash in his chips and claim the prize of Greater Israel, but his party wants to gamble on.
...
About a year ago he calculated that it was time to visit the cashier and realise his gains. Sure, he would have to leave be ...
#9810 I'm backing Sharon
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 27 October 2004
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#10570 Optimism unrestrained
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 17 November 2004
Blair's faith that Bush will bring peace to the Middle East is either inspiringly positive or grossly naive. ...
#13162 Bush's second term aims to reveal man of vision behind the caricature
by Jonathan Freedland in The Irish Times, 20 January 2005
If the Bush administration does transform itself, the clearest proof will come in the Middle East, writes Jonathan Freedland ...
#18322 
Jacob's Gift: A Journey into the Heart of Belonging
by Jonathan Freedland, 24 February 2005
Freedland digs into his own family's past, telling the story of three people, each of whom came up with radically different answers to the dilemma of how to live as a member of a minority in the modern world. ...
#15027 Blair hails 'ripple of change' in Middle East
by Ewen MacAskill, Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 2 March 2005
#21543 Better than delusions
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 29 June 2005
Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza isn't nearly enough, but the wait for a comprehensive deal could last for ever. ...
#23165 Tread more carefully
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 27 July 2005
Guardian summary paragraph: »Ken Livingstone is playing with fire when he embraces Islamists who are at odds with our progressive tradition.«
»On Channel 4 News last week, the mayor was asked about his public embrace of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, w ...
#27571 The canny Sharon's one and three-quarter state solution
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 12 October 2005
In the new game of sequential unilateralism, the Palestinian leaders are being outplayed by Israel's prime minister. ...
#29133 Jonathan Freedland: The man who could bring about a revolution in Israeli politics
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 16 November 2005
In the Middle East, the sensible position is pessimism. No one ever lost a bet by gambling that Israelis and Palestinians would keep fighting each other rather than make peace. The smart money says that remains true, that progress is impossible, that ...
#30610 The sickness bequeathed by the west to the Muslim world
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 14 December 2005
Subtitle: »The Iranian president's support for Holocaust denial is a measure of how far the infection of Jew-hatred has spread«
»There were few memorable moments in the election campaign of 2005, but there's one I won't forget. It came when I was ...
#31879 Israel braced for loss of its grandfather
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 6 January 2006
»Most Israelis, even those who never voted for him, concede that the passing of Ariel Sharon, when it comes, will be more than the demise of an elected politician. According to Segev,
"Sharon is the last of the Israeli giants, a man who had co ...
#32132 The next phase of Sharonism might have defeated Sharon himself
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 11 January 2006
Guardian Synopsis: »The new prime minister must perform a deed that proved too hard for greater men – pullout from the West Bank«
»In the red corner stands Labour's new leader, Amir Peretz. A lifelong campaigner for workers' rights and a committed ...
#33188 What Hamas could learn from the early Zionists about state-building
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 1 February 2006
»Guardian Synopsis: Paralysed by the shock result of the Palestinian election, all sides are now looking to the past to find a way forward«
»In this new landscape, everyone is in the dark. After Hamas won an enormous victory that ...
#104015 Beyond, the fringe
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 27 March 2006
#35941 Israelis have at last endorsed the gradual return of a stolen inheritance
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 29 March 2006
»Israelis convinced themselves that this was to be the dull election, the one marked by record low turnout and apathy. A people who complain they live in a land with too much history seemed in no mood to make some more. But make it they have. Yesterd ...
#104026 The sleeping warrior
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 29 March 2006
#36108 Israelis have spoken ... but what do they mean?
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 1 April 2006
#38917 Israel must halt the crisis among the Palestinians - for its own sake
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 24 May 2006
Guardian Synopsis: »If Israelis won't deal with Hamas, they could end up facing a more radical alternative: Islamic Jihad or even al-Qaida«
»From this distance, the Palestinians look to be in dire straits - even by their wretched standards. A peop ...
#42701 At the heart of the Lebanon crisis lie the lethal mistakes of George Bush
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 26 July 2006
#43242 For Palestinians' sake, Olmert must emerge with his people's respect
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 2 August 2006
#44877 If Europe doesn't want Middle East war to begin again, it has to step up
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 23 August 2006
EU nations are confirming the US right's prejudices by failing to deliver on promises of troops to police Lebanon's ceasefire.
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#104355 If Europe doesn't want Middle East war to begin again, it has to step up
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 23 August 2006
#63811 The Enigma of Ariel Sharon
by Jonathan Freedland in New York Review of Books, 21 December 2006
Ariel Sharon: A Life
by Nir Hefez and Gadi Bloom, translated from the Hebrew by Mitch Ginsburg
Random House, 490 pp., $29.95
Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait
by Uri Dan
Palgrave Macmillan, 292 pp., $27.95
Politicide: The Real Legacy of ...
#56066 The transformation of the IRA shows why Israel should talk to Hamas
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 24 January 2007
The Israeli novelist Amos Oz once said Israelis and Palestinians were like patients who know exactly what painful surgery they need to undergo and are ready to face it. The trouble is, their surgeons are cowards. That's certainly how it seems no ...
#60473 Now is the time to call the bluff of the land of missed opportunities
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 28 March 2007
Subtitle: »The Arab League should bypass Ehud Olmert and go directly to the Israeli people with its offer for a Palestinian settlement«
»Call it peace process envy. If they have any sense, Israelis and Palestinians will have a ba ...
#62386 Olmert's legacy could yet be the failure that forces something better
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 2 May 2007
Let's hope Lords Hutton and Butler were taking notes. An 81-year-old retired judge, Eliyahu Winograd, has just given a masterclass in how to conduct a genuine, fearless and plainspoken inquiry into a government failure. While our own inquisitors ...
#104614 Olmert's legacy could yet be the failure that forces something better
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 2 May 2007
#63466 The six-day war is not over. Today, it brings the spectre of al-Qaida in Gaza
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 23 May 2007
I am as old as this war. Officially the war of 1967, the year of my birth, lasted for six days. In reality, it's still going on: it is the 14,600-day war. Witness the violence in Gaza, one chunk of the territory which the young state of Israel - ...
#63812 Bush's Amazing Achievement
by Jonathan Freedland in New York Review of Books, 14 June 2007
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
by Chalmers Johnson
Metropolitan, 354 pp., $26.00
Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Basic, 234 pp., $26.95
Statecraft and How to Re ...
#65198 In everyone's interest
by Jonathan Freedland in Guardian: Comment is Free, 15 June 2007
From now on, when people talk about the Middle East peace process, you'll have to ask: which one? Israelis and Palestinians are as unreconciled as ever, but now the war of Palestinian against Palestinian has plumbed a new depth. The two movements whi ...
#65492 The scene of Fatahland flowering as Hamastan wilts is sheer fantasy
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 20 June 2007
»The utter confusion did not last long. For a few days, the key players in the Middle East conflict were simply too stunned by last week's events to react. They could see that the landscape had changed completely - that the Palestinian nat ...
#67495 This flurry of Middle East activity is the product of a very real threat: Iran
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 18 July 2007
As the good book says, God loves the sinner that repenteth even if he repenteth late - so George Bush will probably win a smile from heaven for his belated call for a Middle East peace conference before the year is out. Sure, it's a bit late now ...
#72524 At last, consensus in the Middle East: all agree these talks are bound to fail
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 24 October 2007
It takes a special kind of genius to unite the warring parties of the Israel-Palestine conflict, but George Bush may just have pulled it off. His proposal for what the US administration calls a "meeting", rather than a peace conference, in Annapolis, ...
#104937 Olmert's bold step
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 27 November 2007
#74381 A small, slender chance for peace in the Middle East
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 29 November 2007
So now we know: this is what soon-to-be-ex-presidents do. Bill Clinton spent his final hours in the White House trying to patch together a deal between Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat and now George Bush promises to spend his last year the same way, con ...
#78725 For Palestinians, the power of mass non-violence would be undeniable
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 20 February 2008
Now that Fidel Castro has taken the carriage clock, international affairs has all too few fixed points of continuity. Her Majesty the Queen is still in place. The King of Thailand has been on the throne since 1946. Otherwise one has to turn to the Mi ...
#79912 To rescue the two-state solution, Israel must make peace with Syria
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 12 March 2008
A Damascus detente could cut through the cloud of cynicism. But it all depends on a change at the White House ...
#82705 British Jews and the Dream of Zion, part 1
by Jonathan Freedland in BBCi (BBC Online), 28 April 2008
BBC archive: Demonstration in Trafalgar Square in 2002
Sound of helicopter
BBC reporter: "Amid tight security and a sea of Israeli flags, tens of thousands of people gathered from across Britain to show their support for the people of Israel."
Sou ...
#82706 British Jews and the Dream of Zion, part 2 -- Zionism today
by Jonathan Freedland in BBCi (BBC Online), 5 May 2008
Archive: Saudi Arabia - no; Poland - yes; Siam - abstain.
Jonathan Freedland: This is a moment that has entered Jewish folklore: the United Nations voting in November 1947 on a plan that would partition Palestine, creating - for the first time in ...
#83681 As it turns 60, the fear is Israel has decided it can get by without peace
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 7 May 2008
This nation was forged in refuge, not imperialism. But its people have grown cynical about hopes for a deal with Palestinians ...
#83534 Carter: 10 minutes to change the world
by Jonathan Freedland in Guardian: Comment is Free, 25 May 2008
It's become a Hay tradition, a game played in the biggest tent at the festival and always before a packed house: the game is Fantasy American President.
Two years ago, the key player was Al Gore, preaching a message on global warming that had the ...
#83524 Carter urges 'supine' Europe to break with US over Gaza blockade
by Jonathan Steele, Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 26 May 2008
»Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday. Carter, visiting the
Welsh border town of Hay for the Guardian literary fest ...
#84389 'I have moral authority'
by Jonathan Freedland, Jimmy Carter (interviewee) in The Guardian, 7 June 2008
»Funny business, being a former president of the United States. People still use your old title – you are always Mr President – and there's the thrill of belonging to the world's most
exclusive club. Current total members ...
#85480 The west has to tackle Tehran - before Israel sends in the bombers
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 25 June 2008
It will take fresh pressure and incentives to douse fears of a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities that would inflame the region ...
#87151 Forget the myth-making. Obama is just what the Middle East needs
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 23 July 2008
»It's lucky Barack Obama has people to carry his bags these days, because when he arrived in Israel last night he brought with him a whole lot of baggage. Most of it was packed with negative
associations that owe more to urban myth than reality ...
#87618 Revenge
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 26 July 2008
The world tried to move on after the second world war, but one group, having survived the ghettoes and the death camps, was not about to let Nazi foot soldiers walk free. Jonathan Freedland reports on the Jewish avengers who tracked down and executed ...
#90242 The two-state solution is nearly dead. But there's one last chance to save it
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 17 September 2008
#95113 An accord with the entire Arab world would be a prize worth Israel's effort
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 17 December 2008
#96320 Israel has plenty of tactics for war, but none for peace
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 3 January 2009
#99797 Gaza after a Hamas rout will be an even greater threat to Israel
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 7 January 2009
#99758 Talking to Hamas is a step toward peace
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 8 January 2009
#99628 Amid the horror and doom of Gaza, the IRA precedent offers hope
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 14 January 2009
#99509 Obama's Middle East policy could take cues from Northern Ireland experience
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 21 January 2009
#99418 As British Jews come under attack, the liberal left must not remain silent
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 4 February 2009
#99367 Will Israel make the Right choice?
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 9 February 2009
#99352 The doves' dilemma
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 10 February 2009
#99346 A toxic force rises in Israel
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 11 February 2009
#99358 Two parties claim Israel victory - but the kingmaker will be the man in third place
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 11 February 2009
#105241 Toughen up
by Jonathan Freedland in British Medical Journal (BMJ), 24 February 2009
Most readers of the BMJ will, I’m sure, be stunned by the revelations in Karl Sabbagh’s article (doi:10.1136/bmj.a2066). A deluge of nearly 1000 hostile emails will strike most as the stuff of nightmares. The language of some of those missives—abusiv ...
#106431 Discard the mythology of 'the Israel Lobby', the reality is bad enough
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 18 March 2009
#106839 Bibi has done for Labour
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 25 March 2009
#109112 Progress is doomed if Obama is merely a cleverer version of Bush
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 12 May 2009
#110275 Barack Obama in Cairo: the speech no other president could make
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 4 June 2009
#110785 Seismic events in Iran and Israel have set a critical test of Obama's resolve
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 15 June 2009
#114948 Peace plans come and go. Obama may have to try a wholly new approach
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 25 August 2009
Surely the heart should give a cheer at the hints and signals that suggest Barack Obama will stand before the world next month, either at the UN general assembly or the G20 in Pittsburgh, and launch his own bid for Middle East peace. We have told our ...
#116111 Obama guilty of naivety, says former Israeli diplomat
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 17 September 2009
#116152 Reopening the 1948 file
by Jonathan Freedland in Ha'aretz, 18 September 2009
Many of Israel's supporters around the world have spotted an alarming trend in the debate on Middle East peace. Call it the "Back to '48" approach, which argues that any attempt to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is doomed unless it ...
#116373 Obama may have lost some face in the Middle East, but don't write him off yet
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 22 September 2009
There was something wrong with that picture. Of course all the best politicians are skilled actors, so they did their best to hide the reality. But, despite the smiles and the handshake, Barack Obama, Mahmoud Abbas and Binyamin Netanyahu could not qu ...
#117160 Once no self-respecting politician would have gone near people such as Kaminski
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 6 October 2009
This is about more than party point-scoring. It is, in fact, a matter of the deepest principle. For there was a time when no self-respecting British politician would have gone anywhere near such people. Kaminski began his career in the National Rebir ...
#118031 I knew the day of Holocaust 'debate' would come. Just not in my lifetime
by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 20 October 2009
Today Hillary Clinton has a chance to do what the BBC, most British newspapers and the rest of the political class have singularly failed to do: she can confront the Conservative party over its noxious new alliances in Europe. When she meets William ...
#119888 The Swiss ban makes me shudder
by Jonathan Freedland in Guardian: Comment is Free, 1 December 2009
It's a crude reaction but it's the first one I had on hearing that the Swiss had voted to ban the building of minarets on mosques – the same reaction I have to the increasingly-frequent stories like it: how would I feel if this were not about them, b ...
#848 British Jews and the Dream of Zion, part 1 - history of Zionism
with Jonathan Freedland, on British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 28 April 2008
#853 British Jews and the Dream of Zion, part 2
with Jonathan Freedland, on British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 5 May 2008
#1421 Benny Morris: 'Palestinian Arabs have no respect for democratic values'
with Benny Morris, Jonathan Freedland, on Guardian Unlimited, 11 September 2009
#1885 by Jonathan Freedland, 25 August 2009
Perhaps successive efforts at peace have failed because they have ducked the core, existential questions, the issues of 1948. Maybe a true peace will only come when it confronts the hardest issues: on one side, the dispossession of the Palestinians, forced to become a refugee nation; and on the other, the urge which led to Israel's creation, the Jews' desire after two millennia in exile to live in a state of their own. More details