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...He told the FT his government “unequivocally” condemned the Hamas attack on Israel but urged the Israeli government not to “punish 2mn people for disgraceful actions of a few”....
...They met for a second round of discussions on how far Israel was willing to withdraw from the Golan Heights 1975: Kissinger with his wife Nancy on a flight between Egypt and Israel 1983: Margaret Thatcher...
...Will he continue to hold the line on Israel? He must....
...That is now as serious a question as it was when the IRA bombed Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet....
...Starting next week, we have a number of stories about this year’s votes, and a series of films on democracy by world famous writers such as Margaret Atwood....
...FT editor Roula Khalaf introduces Democracy 2024 in her letter to readers today, kicking off our year-long series with films featuring authors Margaret Atwood and Elif Shafak....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Kamala Harris-Benny Gantz meeting: A bitter row between Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz has overshadowed the start...
...Starmer condemned the “appalling act of terrorism” by Hamas on Israel, while shadow foreign secretary David Lammy told a fringe event that it was “hugely important to be clear that Israel has a right to...
...Gaza’s health ministry said Israel had launched a “massive incursion” that wounded many of the displaced people still in the compound where thousands of people were sheltering....
...The writer is chair of Rockefeller International The attacks this month on Israel have raised fears of a wider Middle East conflict, even of a third world war....
...And if you struggle to read long form pieces like this, then have a look at Margaret Heffernan’s argument about why you should keep at it....
...On Thursday, the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election will be held in the seat vacated by former Scottish National party MP Margaret Ferrier, who was suspended from the House of Commons for breaching...
...This week he met Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, to discuss the crisis in Gaza....
...Biden’s Middle East policy: The White House’s search for a “grand bargain” with Israel and Saudi Arabia could end up being a grand illusion, writes Gideon Rachman....
...Margaret Heffernan, author of Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future, discusses succession planning....
...Iacobescu, who is Jewish, says Hamas must be destroyed but also argues that Benjamin Netanyahu should go as Israel’s leader....
...Anwar Sadat of Egypt is on the list because he took the brave decision to break with his Arab allies and make peace with Israel....
...Margaret Thatcher, you know, wasn’t actually selected as candidate for Finchley in 1958; the voting went the other way. Her opponent actually won I think by one or two votes....
...Guests at her table ranged from Margaret Thatcher and Elton John to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, former secretary-general of the UN....
...For those such as Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher, old enough to have seen the horrors of Nazism, attitudes were influenced by an attachment to Zionism and Israel....
...Truss’s evocation of former premier Margaret Thatcher, who loved handbagging European leaders, has not gone unnoticed....
...Israel....
...She also argued for stronger alliances between countries including Australia, the UK, Japan, India, Indonesia and Israel to curtail the growing power of “global aggressors”....
...So too do Israel and Japan and even, more recently, Malawi, Morocco and Tunisia. In all of these places, artists are compensated for their copyright. But not in the United Kingdom....
...“Anthony Eden lied to parliament about the collusion with Israel [in the 1956 Suez crisis], but in his defence he felt he had to do that because it was overwhelmingly important for the state....
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