The sudden collision between Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama’s administration is reverberating across the middle east. Thomas O'Dwyer gauges the impact in Israel and talks to a senior scholar of US-Israel relations.
These are strange political times in Israel. This became clear to me on the day the official commission of inquiry into Israel's disastrous Lebanon war of July-August 2006
Here was the news, live and in Hebrew from Israel, blaring out of Hizbollah's al-Manar television station in Lebanon. Nothing could better illustrate the bizarre new realities emerging
As Israel's war machine continues to wreak its grim punishment on Lebanon after the crisis that exploded on 12 July, two questions most puzzle middle-east watchers in the
In early January 2006, Israel's seemingly invincible "bulldozer" prime minister, Ariel Sharon, suffered a second stroke in quick succession and slipped into a coma. Now, on
