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Climate change is upon us; not just a looming threat
It’s as if 17 years have not passed: I recall clearly the day when I first drove up Israel’s Route 1 from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem past...
May 183 min read


How the famed secret agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped the Soviet Union and certain death
When posted to Moscow as young diplomats in the early 1980s, we were warned, by gruff men in dark glasses, against the famed KGB...
Apr 203 min read


International rules of engagement in diplomacy are no longer sacrosanct
Several narratives have emerged from the Donald Trump-Volodymyr Zelensky-J.D. Vance dust-up in the Oval office, the most disturbing being...
Mar 233 min read


Gaza: Home is not a building
Good morning, Gaza Get up, drink my coffee and rise. Our funeral has arrived—Mahmoud Darwish. The two-state solution to the...
Feb 233 min read


Why Donald Trump covets Greenland
There’s no denying it. Donald Trump is a prince among real estate developers, known for his pushy, winner-takes-all approach. Trump...
Jan 263 min read


Good fences make good neighbours
When fences erode, or nobody is at home, neighbours tend to take advantage. A nibble at a patch of land, a fence post pushed a yard away,...
Dec 22, 20243 min read


How to do business with Donald Trump in his second term
The world is still coming to terms with Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Many had no doubt predicted, even feared, this outcome,...
Nov 17, 20244 min read


No Trump card for an end to Middle East war
Once the confetti of the inaugural balls has been cleared away, it is possible that Donald Trump may give his attention to the Middle...
Nov 11, 20244 min read


Hemingway’s four-decade-long love affair with Spain
There are no other countries like Spain,” says Robert Jordan in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bells Toll . The same belief propelled...
Oct 27, 20243 min read
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