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The Donald’s plans for the Middle East

The Donald’s plans for the Middle East
19.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Paul Wood

The Donald’s plans for the Middle East

The Donald’s plans for the Middle East
16.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Unholy alliance / America’s new ally in the battle against Isis: the Taliban

13.01.2025 4

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Unholy alliance / America’s new ally in the battle against Isis: the Taliban

13.01.2025 2

The Spectator

Paul Wood

America’s new ally in the battle against Isis: the Taliban

12.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Unholy alliance / America’s new ally in the battle against Isis: the Taliban

10.01.2025 8

The Spectator

Paul Wood

The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights

The SAS are worried. Britain’s most elite military unit have come face to face with the IRA, the Taliban and Isis. But the enemy that really...

28.11.2024 40

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Paul Wood

How Trump could temper tensions in the Middle East

One of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign ads was aimed at Jewish voters. Three stereotypical New York bubbes are kvetching about the state of the world....

07.11.2024 20

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Paul Wood

Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour

Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond to a series of devastating – and humiliating...

03.10.2024 10

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Is Israel trying to drag America into a war with Iran?

The American general David Petraeus famously asked of the invasion of Iraq: ‘Tell me how this ends.’ That’s the question as Israeli bombs and...

26.09.2024 7

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Paul Wood

Where do Israel and Hezbollah go from here?

Israel’s security cabinet met in a bunker in the ministry of defence in Tel Aviv on Monday night. The main item on the agenda was Hezbollah, the...

19.09.2024 2

The Spectator

Paul Wood

The mad, bad, sad world of Ryan Routh

Any journalist who has covered a war will recognise Ryan Routh’s type immediately – the war zone nutter. Routh is currently all over America’s...

18.09.2024 4

The Spectator

Paul Wood

Can anything stop a full-scale conflict in the Middle East?

The fact that the Middle East stands on the brink of a catastrophic war can be explained by a scene from The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s preposterous...

08.08.2024 4

The Spectator

Paul Wood