Plus: Fox, an assured voice for Leave. Clarke and Heseltine, missing voices for Remain. And: Mark Regev, a persuasive voice for Israel.
Plus: Obama: so that went well, then. Scotland: will it go well for Davidson? Wales – it may go well for Neil Hamilton (remember him).
I think regularly about the new West Bank Palestinian city that I visited , and how some of the things that confused me then still do now.
The Russian scheme has a major, obvious flaw: the Syrian regime is mostly fighting not ISIS, but other armed groups.
British MPs voting for the recognition of Palestine would not transform ISIS into liberal consumers of Love your Garden or Strictly Come Dancing.
Permanent war would be catastrophic for the country’s Arab population, and for an Israel that knows it ought to treat them as equals.
Far from being an end to the power struggle within Palestinian politics, this latest deal could well be its next phase.
Abbas’s tactical push is helping to divide Israel’s Government.
Suppose Israel were to become convinced that Russia had connived in the Ayatollahs gaining even a primitive nuclear device.
There are tactical reasons for his insistence that the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state.
Netanyahu’s language – and hard logic – won’t allow a dangerous fudge. The prospect is the right deal, or air strikes.
A year on since the Commons voted to recognise Palestinian statehood, we must apply proper diplomatic pressure and see it as an essential moral issue of our time.