The forty-eight-hour pause in Israeli air raids over Lebanon announced in the aftermath of the Qana massacre on 30 July 2006 has been far from complete, but there
In seeking to analyse and understand the factors behind the current war in the middle east, the near-daily columns in this series over the past two weeks have initially
The failure of the emergency Rome summit on the middle east on 26 July to call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon has been taken by the Ehud Olmert government
While most western media attention has been focusing on the Lebanon war that erupted on 12 July 2006, there has been a marked escalation in violence in both Afghanistan and
Israel's war in Lebanon is being conducted with unstinting United States support. This suggests that a long war is in prospect.
It is a move that belongs to
Two weeks into the war in Lebanon, the United States is reported in the Israeli press to be giving the Ehud Olmert government at least another week to pursue its
The fast pace of events over the past nine days makes it increasingly essential from the Israeli government's point of view to destroy Hizbollah's capacity to
To most Israelis, the bitter conflict now playing out in Lebanon is an essential requirement for Israel's security. It may be the sixth war Israel has fought in
The war in Lebanon is only a week old, but it is already obvious that these are just the early stages. It is probably true that Israel has been given
A week into the war, Israel's intransigence and the United States's indulgence make the prospects for peace minimal.
Israel's attacks on Lebanon continued over
Israel's bombardment of Lebanon may be only the prelude to an even wider field of conflict.
The motives and intentions of the Hamas militia in Gaza and the
Much public discussion in Britain in recent weeks has focused on the government's plans to acquire a successor to the Trident nuclear-weapons system. This is clearly a
