Points East & West

‘The iron logic of Israel’s political arithmetic, coupled with the challenges ahead, points to a coalition between Likud and Kadima’

‘It is an interest rather than a principle that marches against Israel promote’

‘Mid-2010 might be too late for Obama to switch gears on Iran. Its nuclear clock is ticking faster and faster’

‘Obama will try to succeed in the Middle East where Clinton and Bush failed’

‘Obama would be an American, not European, president, and Livni would be an Israeli leader, not a Brussels bureaucrat’

‘To realise that Syria deserved the cold shoulder did not require the life of a prime minister’

‘The more Iran misbehaves, the more the West is ready to give’

Iraq begins to cut its own deals, and to reach for sovereignty

‘Our destiny is determined by benevolent and somewhat patronising philosopher kings’

‘A nuclear Iran is not just Israel’s problem. Stopping its programme is a paramount Western interest’