Gaza: Worse than a Crime
11 January 2009 Gaza: Worse than a Crime By Gwynne Dyer “Israel is not going to show restraint,” Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told the Washington Post on Saturday, after the United States abstained on...
View ArticleObama and the Two-State Solution
4 June 2009 Obama and the Two-State Solution By Gwynne Dyer It was a good speech by any measure, and it will go some way towards lessening the mistrust of the world’s Muslims towards the United States....
View ArticleNo Peace, Just Prizes
10 October 2009 No Peace, Just Prizes By Gwynne Dyer “Anyone who says that within the next few years an agreement can be reached ending the conflict (between Israel and the Palestinians) simply...
View ArticleObama’s Middle Eastern Adventure
27 January 2010 Obama’s Middle Eastern Adventure By Gwynne Dyer Barack Obama had worse failures to address in his State of the Union message on Wednesday (January 27), but a few days before he owned up...
View ArticleIsrael and the Aid Flotilla: Worse than a Crime
1 June 2010 Israel and the Aid Flotilla: Worse than a Crime By Gwynne Dyer The remark was originally made about Napoleon’s decision to kidnap the Duc d’Enghien and have him judicially murdered more...
View ArticleHow to Break the Gaza Blockade
7 June 2010 How to Break the Gaza Blockade By Gwynne Dyer United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Britain, France, Germany and...
View ArticleThe Mavi Marmara Inquiry: Denying the Obvious
14 August 2010 The Mavi Marmara Inquiry: Denying the Obvious By Gwynne Dyer They are all lying, of course. The pro-Palestinian activists who said that the flotilla of ships that tried to breach the...
View ArticleThe Next Arab-Israeli War
24 January 2011 The Next Arab-Israeli War By Gwynne Dyer It’s time to think about the nature of the next Arab-Israeli war. The release by the Arab satellite network al-Jazeera of 16,000 leaked...
View ArticleWarding Off the Palestinian Revolution
6 May 2011 Warding Off the Palestinian Revolution By Gwynne Dyer Palestine is ripe for a revolution. How do we know that? Because the two rival governments that have so spectacularly failed that...
View ArticleThe One-State Solution
5 November 2012 The One-State Solution By Gwynne Dyer “Everybody knows how this will end,” wrote Nahum Barnea, one of Israel’s best-known journalists, in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot recently. “There...
View ArticleGaza 2014
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said something cryptic last Friday, shortly after the Israelis began their latest round of attacks on the Gaza Strip. Condemning Hamas’s...
View ArticleGaza: A Little Context
You can see why Hamas doesn’t want a cease-fire in Gaza yet. It is continuing the fight in the hope that international outrage at the huge loss of people being killed by Israel’s massive firepower will...
View ArticleGaza War: Nobody wins
“They began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over,” as Lewis Carrol put it in Alice in Wonderland. He was describing the Caucus...
View ArticlePalestinian Despair
When all is lost, entire communities sometimes engage in suicidal gestures. It happened as recently as 1906 in Bali, when the local royal family and thousands of their followers, knowing they could...
View ArticleIsrael and the Aid Flotilla: Worse than a Crime
1 June 2010 Israel and the Aid Flotilla: Worse than a Crime By Gwynne Dyer The remark was originally made about Napoleon’s decision to kidnap the Duc d’Enghien and have him judicially murdered more...
View ArticleHow to Break the Gaza Blockade
7 June 2010 How to Break the Gaza Blockade By Gwynne Dyer United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Britain, France, Germany and...
View ArticleThe Mavi Marmara Inquiry: Denying the Obvious
14 August 2010 The Mavi Marmara Inquiry: Denying the Obvious By Gwynne Dyer They are all lying, of course. The pro-Palestinian activists who said that the flotilla of ships that tried to breach the...
View ArticleThe Next Arab-Israeli War
24 January 2011 The Next Arab-Israeli War By Gwynne Dyer It’s time to think about the nature of the next Arab-Israeli war. The release by the Arab satellite network al-Jazeera of 16,000 leaked...
View ArticleWarding Off the Palestinian Revolution
6 May 2011 Warding Off the Palestinian Revolution By Gwynne Dyer Palestine is ripe for a revolution. How do we know that? Because the two rival governments that have so spectacularly failed that...
View ArticleThe One-State Solution
5 November 2012 The One-State Solution By Gwynne Dyer “Everybody knows how this will end,” wrote Nahum Barnea, one of Israel’s best-known journalists, in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot recently. “There...
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