Paul McGeough

Rash Israel lights Arab Spring powder keg

Paul McGeough The Middle East this week? Think Colorado in July and the movie megaplex massacre.

Paul McGeough

War of words is Israel's best defence

Paul McGeough Is Israel actually going to war - or merely threatening to go to war?

Throwing good money after bad

Paul McGeough The pussyfoot President is off to the Middle East and you won't believe the nonsense going on over where he can and can't go in Israel and, for a matter of minutes, the Palestinian Occupied...

Paul McGeough

The NRA-style potshot is alive and well

Paul McGeough If just a single bully works the neighbourhood, there's a good chance that his protection racket can hold up.

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Obama changes course between courses

Paul McGeough For a time there, it looked like business as usual in the Middle East.

Paul McGeough

Obama has to factor Arab Spring into reaction to Israeli-Hamas crisis

Paul McGeough WASHINGTON: We have yet to see the mettle of Barack Obama in his second term as US President, but it will be intriguing to watch how he sustains Washington's support for Israel in the coming four...

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The military adviser left out in the cold

Paul McGeough The lost pages of Catch-22 have turned up: they are the real-life career notes of Gwenyth Todd.

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Oiling the wheels of justice, US-style

Paul McGeough The ritual of the American party conventions is fascinating for foreigners.

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Brass hue to silver lining of a new Egypt

Paul McGeough An all's-well presumption in some quarters on the Egyptian presidential election is bizarre.

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Take a bite out of Iran at your peril

Paul McGeough You'd have thought the reality of Afghanistan and Iraq might act as a break on the instinctive lunge by hawks to compare apples with oranges as they try to gull us into a belief that war is a doddle.

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Postage stamp nation as global ringmaster

Paul McGeough The word ''bluff'' gets an outing in analysis these days. Is Benjamin Netanyahu bluffing about an attack on Iran?

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What it takes to put Tehran on the mat

Paul McGeough A quick fix is unlikely to emerge from talks in Istanbul, through which the West hopes to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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Foiling attempts to follow the money

Paul McGeough With hundreds of millions of dollars sloshing around, American politics is a saleable commodity.

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A fledgling democracy needs support, not suspicion

Paul McGeough AS IF they do not have enough on their plate, the biggest challenge for Egyptians after dislodging Hosni Mubarak is to prove that their uprising is not a repeat of the 1979 Iranian revolution, which...

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Iran is still talking, if nothing else

Paul McGeough It could hardly be called an agreement. But when talks between Iran and a European Union-led delegation broke up in Geneva on Tuesday, a faint promise of more powwow hung in the chill Swiss air.

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WikiLeaks reveals unreliable war cries and chequebook democracy

Paul McGeough THE danger in WikiLeaks' dump of reams of super-sensitive cables from Washington's worldwide listening posts is not merely that the game has been revealed but how it might play out in future.